Susan: The brick and stone patio (which in truth is just an 8' diameter "circle") was an attempt at mimicing the brick and stone planters often seen on old houses in this area...where they incorporate some rocks in with "clinker brick". Plus, I was short on bricks when I did it so it just sort of "happened". It's crude, but it works and serves it's purpose. There's normally a small table and chairs that sit there.
People around here discard so much perfectly good "garden makings" it's unbelievable. Someone buys an old house and they immediately set out to modernize it and make it pristine. They park those roll -off flat dumpsters in the street and fill them up with brick, stone, lumber, old iron stuff, etc. Then, us dumpster divers raid the thing and get the good stuff !
Zu: You can free to call me anything you want ! lol
(Like many others here, I thought we were supposed to pick new names...)
