As I spent this week bending over, picking up stones, cleaning them off, rebuilding the laid out pattern off to the side so I’d know how to rebuild them on the patio, pulling out all the weeds then eventually rebuilding the clean stones on the de-weeded ground (*whew*), I had a constant thought in my head. Why the hell, when they first laid in this stone patio, didn’t the previous owners not seal the stones with paver sand to prevent the weeds from shooting up thru!!! I could have saved my self a lot of hot, agonizing hours.

Could there have been a structural reason why they didn’t?