Walkway with bark mulch

Fortunately, we have lots of pine bark mulch from downed trees. A nice finishing touch - and weed preventer! No more mowing in this area - hurray!

Completed Symbol Walkway

View from Slab #8

View from Slab #1

Yesterday we moved huge mounds of the excavated soil in 95 degree heat, and I overdid it. I keep thinking I'm 30. Must conserve energy. I'll try to remember that. We are very happy with our walkway. The cats and dogs love it, as do butterflies!

Now we are planning the next walkway which will connect to the symbol walk way. It will likely be colored concrete with washed pea gravel added on top, relatively simple, except for the excavating. We will wait until late September or October to start it.

I Ching Slab #8

This 36" block contains two hexagrams, Augmenting/Increasing and Great Power. You may notice, as I did when I was cleaning the tiles, that I forgot to put in 5 small blue squares. Oh well . . . Charlie said it's my creative genius expressing itself. I like that.

Papercrete Block Sculpture Base

Here is the dried sculpture base. I was doubting that it would ever dry hard, but after a week, it surely did. So it's lightweight, hard, and fairly attractive. Who could ask for more?

Recipe: 6-8 parts ground wet paper pulp, 2 parts Portland Cement, 2 parts sand.