I made some significant progress on the patio today:

I hired a day laborer to dig out the dirt and shovel in the paver base, and man did he ever work hard. After the paver base was in place, I poured some sand and started placing the blocks. I got about 20% done, but didn’t take a picture of the blocks. I still need some edging material to keep the outer bricks from moving.

Lots of fun. Any advice?

UPDATE: Here are some pics of the patio-fied portion, which as I said is about 20% done:

Working on a patio for the front yard. My way of procrastinating (beside blogging, of course).

Current Project Status: Hole.

I’m roughly following these directions, though I’ll be using this type of brick instead of square bricks:

Any advice? Hopefully it’ll turn out OK, and hopefully it will get done by the end of summer.