Monday -- Big Plans And Big Stones.

Over the weekend, moved a bunch of flat stones around outside my back door, and also a bunch of gravelly dirt from over in front of the garage, to make a higher stoop outside the door. It's progressing. I'm worried that it isn't high enough yet.

Boogied with that until I got to the stones that are too big for me to muscle around by myself, so stopped until tomorrow, when Jack Spade might come over to help.

Although, before we can actually do much, have to take the wheel off my wheelbarrow and go get it reinflated, since at the end of the day, the wheelbarrow sighed once, let all the air out of it's tire, and totally sagged, refusing to move another inch. That tire is as flat as a pancake.

Oh yeah, and we have to move a big radiator off one of the stones too, before we can reset the stone.

I hope it doesn't rain too much, although I've been waiting for rainy weather so I can move a couple more plants to new places. They're big enough that I didn't want to risk moving them when it was sunny and gorgeous; they'd never make it. At least if it's grey and rainy, they'll have a chance.

I'll still have to carry water down to their new locations, probably. But they might survive.

And this afternoon, The Boss helped me load a piece of lovely flat sidewalk stone into the car. Somebody had apparently dumped it off at the Tombstone Factory, and I've had my eye on it for several weeks. In fact, there were 2 pieces, and I loaded the smaller one myself last week. So now I have them both. Hah.

There's lots of area to pave, so that's good. The general plan is: a row of bricks along the drive and stone near the house, as follows:

A broad, raised sort of stoop, one riser up, outside the door, with smaller flattish field stones along the house edges, and big smooth flat sidewalk stones out where you'd mostly be walking. (The top of the stoop all paved with stone.) But since there's not enough stone for all of the lower area out to the drive, some of that will have to be gravel, with bricks around the edges.

That's the Plan.

But we all know about Plans.

They get flat tires.