Removing and replacing our old pathway

 We moved into our home about 15 years ago at that time we decided to place a walkway down through the yard to a firepit.  Our family loves to sit around the backyard fire and roast hotdogs and marshmallows.

 We haven't done much to the walkway except spray it once in a while with weed kill but today we decided it was time to remove and repair.  So we began to dig out the bricks..it was amazing how some were buried and some were broken.  They all were beginning to sink down deeper and deeper.

There was a lot of moss that had even grown over the top of them.  But hubby and I worked together and got them all dug up.

 The pathway went from the deck to the firepit ring.  All of these bricks have been recycled we would watch for free ones.  Sometimes just driving down the road there would be bricks with a sign take all you want.  So some of these bricks have different says on them.

 We also enjoy using our dutch ovens.  So son showed us how to maybe add a dutch oven area to our firepit.  this one was just a sample so we removed it and built up a larger better one.

Now we are almost finished all the bricks have been laid, ground was leveled, new sand added bricks laid and topped with sand for the cracks.  We chose to use boards to help keep us aligned and now going back and adding brick edging and nails to hold the bricks in place...so nice and will be used a lot in the months ahead.