The Evans Family

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Scenes from Squam

Most of these fish are labeled with the date and location of their demise.


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Window Seat

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The Front Porch and Corner Cabinet

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Walkway and Stair

John started the walkway base in early August and finished the project just before he left for San Francisco. The stones used for the steps were the original steps. I think John did an amazing job with the flagstone cuts on the walkway curve.

An additional part of the courtyard project included bringing the courtyard area to a level grade. We used ten yards of topsoil and some extra subsoil. The old garden had to dug up and will be replanted. I am planting grass in the courtyard this weekend, the hard part is that the topsoil in the entire area must first be tilled to a 4 inch depth.






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Pat and Buddy

A picture of Pat and Buddy in the large pasture. This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. You can see the pond level is down, it's down another foot now. We haven't had any real rain in close to a month.


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The Fence

John has been putting together the fence that will sit on the stone walls around the courtyard. The fence will be painted to match the house and the posts will be capped.

Here is an elevation of the lanscape plan showing the fence.


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We received the pickets as a Christmas present from John's parents, they were made to specification in Maine. The pickets style is called "lollypop" and is only found in Chester County. The fence is 26 inches high with the pickets at 24 inches.


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John has made a jig to built the fence sections. Once the jig was built he was able to knock out the sections in less than a day. I worked out the spacing and number of pickets required for each of the 17 sections of fence.


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When the stone walls were built we had re-bar installed at the post locations. This allows the posts to sit on the center of the wall, John is drilling the posts to slide down over the re-bar. The posts are 4 x 4 and John has made a jig to drill out the mortises in the posts, he is finishing these up today. John installed a couple of sections yesterday and they look fabulous.


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