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Historic paving renovation, part 2

After we had selected the correct tiles began the brutal part of the work;) The paving stones had to be beaten into the ground. My husband did it by hitting with the blunt side of our ax to a piece of wood lying on the stones:



It was a terribly demanding job, but we did not use a vibrating plate, to obtain the characteristic roughness of the pavement.
came slowly but surely we:


and finished last, this step:


had to be in a next step, the interstices filled with a kind of mortar. We used for mortar (gravel-sand), at its own recipe, which we had previously recovered from the sieved soil from the "excavation".





Then we removed the excess grout from irrigation, re-grout, re-watering ...


And that's the result:


I find it great!

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Historic paving renovate

our house and two outbuildings (one workshop and a former stable block, built by the previous owners to a seminar house) form a courtyard of 150m ². Most of it is covered with a historic setting, which consists of sandstone and boulders.


I had the photo edited for my English blog and leave it with the English words in here.

And this is the patch in a close-out (yes, I should have more weeds ...):


For whatever reason, about 2m ² patches were missing from the stable building


Because this area was transformed after each rainfall in a kind of wetland, we have decided to pave the missing piece. And of course we wanted to use as possible original patch. We have learned that much lack of old material that was removed during earlier renovations, is still to be found somewhere on the property. So

we started to look for paving stones ... And - have actually found that: in the garden, in the flower beds, in the former pond (even a gold mine for all sorts of things, most recently appeared on an old door ...):



First, my husband some ground away (about 20 cm thickness) and made an indentation with about 10 cm. Pebble-sand mixture, then filled and fitted corresponding stones, quite a puzzle:



Get out the same in Part II of this paper ...

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mouse in the house!

Although already happened last weekend, but who knows what awaits me tomorrow morning ...

We have mice in the house! Well, too great a surprise it was not, after all, our house about a million cracks, crevices, small and large holes, etc. However, it is actually

pretty annoying if you have on Sunday morning at 4:30 in the clock awakened early by his own cat, because she is one of these mice has caught, they drag us into the bedroom (fortunately not in bed ...) and then calmly playing with her, so that the mouse squeaks and squeals like crazy .
You are standing on and so choose, you take away the cat "toy", because you Mouse want to stop them from crawling under a cupboard somewhere, where you only smell it but can not be removed. You turned, catch the half-dead mouse that looks like through the meat grinder and take them outside - in the hope that tomorrow it is no longer there. Then you go back to bed and try to forget what you have just seen, up but with the deadly injured cat bother, it is now - was in revenge for the stolen mouse apart on your toes.

And at some point you give up easily and think

BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY YOU ALL!