To prepare for the patio, we peeled up all of the remaining sod in the backyard. As you can imagine this turned heads in the neighborhood! Once the sod was gone the area had to be levelled and terraced to accommodate two levels. Originally we had thought to build up the yard to create one large patio area. As it was, with two levels the back of the yard was raised by a foot and a half!
Before any of the patio stone could be put into 
place, we sifted and picked as many stones out of
place, we sifted and picked as many stones out ofthe prepared area as possible. We filled over 10, 17-21" grow pots with "gravel". Many thanks to the kids who helped us with this! It was tedious but necessary to prevent any small stones from working their way up during freezing & thawing and cracking any of the larger slabs of stone.
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