A Man's Work

It is Spring in Amboise now - quite mild and the flowers are already in bloom

Here are some of Ron's projects to keep busy physically.  He started by clearing out an overgrown area in the front of our house

Then he found old stones on our property and made a mosaic of a patio

The final patio 

 

He even made red brick steps down to our basement out of more old stones and bricks he found

Next he cleared an area in the back courtyard for a garden and cultivated a small rose garden

Our table is graced regularly with roses from our very own garden

Then he planted an herb garden

Next he chopped down a large tree - see him high up in the branches on top of a wall.  The house behind us is 500-600 years old

Soon he began a major endeavor.  Clearing a large area in the back courtyard for a terrace.

This required him loading and then unloading hundreds of pounds of sand for a level base and then tiles.

At this point he is working on each individual tile to mortar and wire brush clean.

When the weather would not accommodate outside work (temperature too low for mortar), he worked on replacing bathroom floor tiles.