Adding a Walkway

Upon moving into our house in Georgia, we realized there was no walkway leading to the front door. Timothy and I thought this was an interesting phenomenon, until we looked around at many homes in our neighborhood... most of them don't have walkways! We were determined to be different and put one in anyway. One problem... too hot in the middle of the summer in South Georgia to be hacking at the ground and laying pine straw. So we waited until late September. It took us several hours on a Saturday and a few trips to Lowe's, but we got it done.

BEFORE:


Step 1: Determine where you want your walkway, its measurements, and the materials you need/want.
Step 2: Purchase materials.
Step 3: Dig up the grass (in our case, roots too!) and prepare ground for laying stones through use of a mattock and shovel.
Step 4: Level out ground and lay stones.
Step 5: Fill in around stones with pine straw.

AFTER:


Another BEFORE picture:

That same day, the flower bed in the picture above was tended to as well. We are not quite finished with it. We edged it with egg rock along the house for drainage purposes (we don't have gutters on the house, yet another phenomenon in South Georgia), replanted a beautiful yellow hibiscus plant we were given, and planted tulip and daffodil bulbs. Can't wait until spring to see how the flowers look!

Highlight of the day... me getting to drive the truck home from Lowe's (first time driving it)... I'm thinking I should make this a regular practice...