You won't believe what I did yesterday!

I accomplished a lot of things this weekend but today I'm only going to talk about yesterday. It's the first time since July 2020 that I've had an opportunity to mosaic. It was a great day although my back is a little unhappy.
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My friend, Nadine, has a back patio with a pergola and a HUGE Wisteria tree on it. The weight of the tree on the patio slabs has cracked and tilted the slabs over time. It's a huge trip hazard. They are afraid to replace the slabs because it might kill the Wisteria. We've been talking for several years about doing a patchwork mosaic to level out two areas of the patio and yesterday was the perfect day. The weather was absolutely beautiful, the Wisteria was in bloom and the bees were having a blast around the blooms. They didn't come anywhere near us.

This the the biggest section where we started. The tiles are mostly Mexican-style tiles. We edged the area with small square tiles, placed some big tiles randomly throughout and filled in with broken tile pieces.

Nadine is on the right. Her son is on the left and the impetus for getting this done is to prepare for his wedding in June that's going to be held at the barn on their farm.
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Before we started that corner in the upper right was at least 3" lower than the surrounding slabs! Her son poured concrete earlier in the week to give us a level surface to work on.
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Here are the last tiles going in behind the post on this section. This took is about 4 hours, start to finish.
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This is the second section and it took us about an hour and a half. We were all EXHAUSTED by the end but really happy with the results. My back is not happy at all but I  don't care. It was so much fun to mosaic again.
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Here you can see both sections finished.Nadine and her son will grout it later this week and then I'll go over and get some photos of it finished.

Next on tap for this week is helping a friend move. I may be doing some today and will definately be helping Wednesday. I'm leaving my schedule open for later in the week too. So I don't know how often I will be posting.
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