[LuxLiving]

Today FrugalSon and I worked moving stepping stones out of the big garden and moving them to the top yard by wheelbarrow four at a time (big slope) to make a small patio section in a part of the yard that will never grow grass! Nobody was using the pathway in the big garden anyway.

We also repurposed some of the leftover flat rocks that we were given free for the hauling** when our church was done with their building project. I downsized a flower bed so then I used the rocks to go from the new little patio area and created a walkway that rings the now smaller flower bed and will connect it to an existing poured concrete walk on one side of the house.

I will likely have to either buy some river rocks to put in between the bed and the rock side trim or do a small concrete pour. I would rather it be concrete, but the yard budget may require river rock this year. If I go that route then I could later reuse the rock as mulch for the flower bed. OR I could do a combo of concreting in the river rock.

We have stretched that leftover flat rock a LONG way using it to ring the ugly fence on the top yard and around the back of a long picket fence area to keep more land from eroding on the slope and I STILL have a big pile of it left. I'm trying to decide whether or not I could put up with an uneven flat rock sidewalk for this little section. It would only be about 4-6 ft. long. I could lay it tomorrow and if later I find it livable it could still be cemented in at a later date.

**It didn't cost me any extra for gas either as this was when FrugalSon was working 8-12 at the church anyway and we'd go early and we'd put a load on for me and I'd come home and unload. Then when I went back to pick him up we'd do another load in the afternoon! I love FREE!!