Wicked Awesome Patio Finds Home in Minneapolis Couple's Backyard

With help from John, Bryan, Toby, Kate, and Greta, we put a wicked cool flagstone patio in the backyard. It looks soooo great! We are currently working on setting black dirt in the cracks, a continuing process of sweeping the dirt in the cracks, watering it down, and letting it settle. We'll do this for the next few days, which means the patio will continue to be covered in mud. Once the black dirt gets settled in, we'll clean it down and start to cultivate moss in the cracks. Shad found a recipe for a "moss milkshake"--a blended concoction of yogurt or buttermilk and moss--that gets painted in the cracks. There is such a great feeling that comes from working hard to improve your home. I get an adrenaline rush. I love it.

Also, Toby got started on refinishing those chairs I picked up for free on Craig's List a few months ago. He cleaned and sanded them down, then coated them with a Rust-oleum primer thingy. They look brand new! We'll put a coat of black over the primer, then I've gotta work on reupholstering them. They're going to look like a million bucks.