Puzzle Complete, and Great Movie

Following are two pictures of today's work. We made our third trip to Seneca , to M&M Stone, and loaded one pallet of mossy flagstone into the bed of our truck ourselves, then unloaded and laid the stones at home. This was the 5th pallet, the first 4 of which were delivered on Tuesday. We spent the rest of the week laying stones, Leslie in the early morning and after supper, me during the day. I will need to make one more trip to M&M for pea gravel, unless some place in Joplin sells it in the size we want. It will fill all the spaces and be swept and sprayed with water to settle it, and then we will be done...we hope. The picture above is from the north end, by the retaining walls. The picture below is from the garage looking to the back steps.
What a week! What a backyard project, including painting the trim, and soon the lattice & pergola. We might be ready for a backyard cookout by week's end.

Forgot to mention in yesterday's post: last night Leslie & I rented and watched Lars and the Real Girl, a wonderful, quirky movie that we will never forget. Everyone reading this post needs to see it.