Backyard construction site…

Over the past few months, I’ve been extending my patio with pavers I’ve had since I’ve moved into the house a few years ago.  It’s come to the point that I’ve needed to disperse the 3000 or so different bricks and pavers that are in the way of me completing my drive way.

Okay, so this was last year.. not in the last few months…

So yesterday while my youngest son was at daycare, my youngest child and daughter distracted the dog, I kept the eldest boy busy with playing “Construction”.   I was going to do it over a few days, but with such a harsh self appointed foreman, it seemed we ended up doing a lot more than expected…

So our tools were two cat trucks, a digger, a shovel, a stringline and a hell of a lot of pavers…

Whaddya mean I backed under the bloody digger wrong?

No bloody way? I’ve been backing under this angle all day!!

Okay, Okay I’m sorry… I’ll pay attention to the tracks and bucket…

Do you guys mind? We are having a staring competition here!!

As they day dragged on, under the harsh rule of a typical digger driver (man that kid is gonna make sure I end up in a good retirement home if he takes it up as a career…).  We levelled the dirt and used the grass to cover the dead spots the dog decided to dig up.  We had laughs, we had tantrums, we sweated, we got dirty.  My wife kept us alive from and fed us ham and cheese with mango chutney, wraps.  And not to forget the ever flowing coffee (hot chocolate / caramel for the boss… err son.) and electrolyte tainted drinks…

With such a big contract and the big equipment moving all over the place, mistakes were to be made…

Bloody hell Dad!! I told you not to ride up the rills!!!

As the sun breaks behind the range…

As the sun put itself behind behind the ranges, the blue sky turned into a deep blue.  We enjoyed the end result, but as a the foreman pushed me out of the way to claim the glory of the one day / doubled in size patio…

Check it out Mum, I laid the third last row all by myself!!
(He seriously did)

From the second row of grey pavers to the end was our days result, and we actually went two rows further than we were planning…

But I tell you now, I ain’t gonna be going into construction with the eldest anytime soon…

~ by John the Aussie on October 25, 2012.