Manual labour

So what does a sysadmin slash programmer do when he isn't playing root? How about some manual labour? This is what my wife and I have been up to since January.

I'm happy to report that paving work is progressing rather nicely. After several weeks of digging a foundation, building a one brick high "wall", carting in a ton of sand (literally) and cementing some decorative bricks into place, we finally got to the final bit of laying the paving stones. This is the result:



I must say I am very impressed with the results. It also looks like the total cost will be well below the expected cost of getting a "professional" to do it.