After dismantling the old porch and getting the temporary staircase set up along with a temporary walkway, I started laying gravel down over the area to start filling in some of the more leveled off areas. I had already set some blocks and a bag of concrete down over the area where the staircase went as well as filled in some of the lighter depressions on the ground with some dirt I moved around to make better room for the blocks when I did lay them down. I started dumping gravel over the areas to start blending in the grounds to the driveway, otherwise known as the midway. I filled in ground up to the skirting of the house and made sure to have a good covering of the ground around where the AC unit is sitting, as well as covering more of the midway grounds as I wanted all of this ground to have a solid covering with no mush to any of the ground since this area is going to be supporting the weight of the new porch eventually. I have to make sure all of this ground is going to stay where it needs to stay. Not to mention just having it solid will allow us to traverse this ground without worrying about pushing up mud through the rocks when it does get very wet. The more of this ground that gets covered up thoroughly will allow me to be able to move vehicular traffic over more of this area as I get things set up with the fences and how I want to situate the vehicles around here. I want to be able to just drive a car all the way through the compound out the east gate and around to the back side of the compound where there will be another gate along the east fence line towards the southeast corner and be able to pull back around past the storage trailer and out into the midway again. Getting a solid layer of gravel established that has been mashed into the mud and covered with more gravel only to be further mashed in the mud will eventually create a ground that is solid enough even during wet conditions to withstand the weight of any vehicle we have on the grounds. I had enough gravel on the truck this time to even start covering the ground around the staircase. I wanted to get as much of the ground around the staircase and even the walkway boards covered prior to me moving the walkway boards to arrange more bricks and blocks to get a complete foundation laid out that will accept a good layer of gravel without any depressions forming from not having an even layer under the gravel. I got as much ground covered, right up to the side of the staircase and right to the end of where the boards lay. All I have to do now is get the rest of the bricks and blocks I need to fill in everything. I will be buying more masonry blocks first and laying them out and using the surplus bricks we have to fill in areas that are either too small for a whole masonry block or because of how the blocks are situated, will only require a single row of bricks or a few bricks in different spots to fill in cavities between the larger blocks. By getting the ground more or less even all around, it will allow the gravel to sit in a way where even with foot traffic it won't cause the rock to push out of the way exposing the depressions between the blocks or in other areas. Even though all of this area will be under a porch, in the meantime I don't want the area that is susceptible to any foot traffic to be dangerous in any way possible. Once the porch does go up it won't really matter if the gravel does move somehow, as long as the ground doesn't erode to the degree that rock starts washing away and taking along with it, more dirt.
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