Back at finishing the rear patio

Well, after starting this project about three years back,LOL, I am back at it and maybe completeing it MayBe!!!
Been having some BP issues since my Cancer treatments ended, and got off to a slow start today facing off the old salvaged Heat-I-Lator insert, but by the end of the day I had made some progress.
The pics are randoms from the past few days. I brought home the big bluestone slabs from a building project that we built several years back. Had to do major excavation of this stone to build the building. I layed it in the front of our house, but it became a lot of work to maintain it, so I ripped it out and put the front back into lawn, as seen in one of the later pics. Me and my Kubotas have handled a lot of tons of stone in the last 10 days, and have a lot more to lay and stack yet. The small planter bed you see on the new patio area is my rocket garden. I had a lot of old drainage tile that I dug up in a very old golf course several years back, some dateing back to 1800s and hand made. Came up with this little planter to display them
The wifey has been real busy with the garden. Lots of Chard,Peas, Broccolli, and beans. Corn is tasseling, and is well over my head, and squash is over takeing the whole garden.
Loren

very nice job!!

It look great!!1 How do you keep the grass from growing in the gravel between the stones??? I have some pavers and I have to spray the cracks several times each year.

Looking good!

Definitely looks good. Wish I had that much energy, of course the right equipment helps too.

Ray, I don't have the finess and patients that you and Larry have with rocks. I don't spend a lot of time trimming and fitting them. The harth and facing for the fireplace I did spend some time on sawing the peices out. I will just dry stack the cobbles around the insert like I did around the planters.
Loren

JD, Grass and weeds was the problem we had out front. We don't spend much time out front anymore. We will plant thyme in the cracks, and the wifey says she will keep the weeds under control in the pathway to the garden. HeHe I also cut the stone in at ground level and can run the mower rite up on it. We had curbing out front and required weedeating weekly, which didn't always get done.
Loren

I'd be a worried cat with that huge rock balanced on the top of the wall in Pic #2 :roll:

Loren, there's one thing missing from the pictures and it begins with "C."