Not to Do: Sandstone Path

I find the more projects I do, the more I also realize that there are some things that just are not meant to be done.  Sometimes this is through experience, but many times it’s just in viewing the long term consequences of someone else’s actions.

Around the house we are renting, there is a stonework path.. rather what is left of a stonework path.

Because of the slope of the yard, a stonewall was also built so as to divide up the yard and give more flat yard space.  Great idea actually.  I just wish it had been done with something other than Sandstone.

Check out some of the images of what is left of my sandstone path, and the work awaiting me one fine summer evening yanking these things out of the ground.  I will leave the wall.  I may be able to salvage the wall.

Please, please, don’t use sandstone in your yard as a path.  Here are the results of that unfortunate decision.

I may be able to salvage the stone wall for now.

Sandstone cracks.

I am afraid what else is buried here that the grass has grown over.

You can see on the edge of this one where the lawnmower blades have caught it and chipped away the corner.

These things are pretty slippery in the rain too.  The idea of a path is that you should be able to walk on it in the rain.  In the rain, I choose to walk on the grass because it’s a much softer landing if I slip and fall.

Try mowing around this every time you mow!

images by William Lehman – decloned