Why do I deserve it? Here's my tale:
Last Summer my wife talked me into putting in a new "outdoor living space" for our family last year. Money was a little tight, so I decided to do it myself. I removed over 6000lbs of dirt and sod, and a 6 foot section of 20 year old oak roots up to 3 inches in diameter with a pick axe. Next was to deposit 14,000 lbs of gravel and 8000 lbs of concrete sand in the 16x27 hole I dug. All of this had to be moved one wheelbarrow at a time approximately 300 feet from the front of the house to the back. Then I hand laid 892 8x8 pavers, and put another 1500 lbs of sand on top of them, put in 200 wall pavers, 3 feet of landscaping around the whole thing, and dumped 3 yards of hardwood mulch over it. The result, a very nice patio that I THOUGHT I could use. The whole project took me over a month and a half to complete, and I lost 42 lbs in the process
. But I thought to myself "Man Space, Outdoors, Good Thing (beats chest Mod)".
