I love it. Being a tom boy who followed my father all around when he was building our home (we peeled the bark from the trees outselves) I love to do things with my hands. However, liking it and doing it well are two different things. I envy your wife her skill. I am too helter-skelter in how I approach things. Like you I know the product I want but can't always get 'there from here.' I accept less than perfection in the product, to say nothing of elegance, as long as it functions as I want it. I cannot say my DH is terribly handy but he is an engineer and grew up without a father so he had no one to teach him. I suppose I am a Rube Goldberg sort.
I noticed the natural rock pavers around the front of our pond are coming loose again. I think it is because the ground beneath is not very stable. I had the entire front dug up two summers ago, had rock and crushed asphalt pounded down then flat stones (18"x6"x36" laid flat with similar stones up on edge for the sides. The liner than draped up and over the rock on the inside of the pond. Yes, it shows, but it is more sanitary and much easier to clean. In this case, I got to ramrod the job. At one point they had actually laid down the stones and had the uprights glued in when I told the guy overseeing the project when he visited that they had not compacted beneath. He made them break apart the rock, pull the stones up (using a backhoe and chains) and redo it. But we have a high water table to while he improved the drainage I think it is still unstable.
