Walkways

One walkway will go from the north porch to the road. I put down a pea gravel walkway to the driveway (which I shoveled in the snow), but still some people preferred to walk through the snow directly to my door. So I will need to re-route that — following the original plan more closely — to the road. I will also need something other than mud adjacent to the driveway in cases when I park in the driveway.On the south side I will need a path from the flagstone patio southeast to the main gravel path that leads to the Common House and around our shared central meadow. This path ends at my property corner (the kink on the right side of the drawing). I have offered to extend it along the east of my lot so people will have a pathway to our shared barn across the road from my house. I will probably connect this to my front porch, as it will give me a walkway to weed the front garden.

I have a ladder to get up on the roof (and the furnace room up there). I will need a mud-free pad to support this ladder and a path from the house. This will probably be from the south patio — I haven’t decided yet. This winter I tended to go around the north because it was snowy and frozen (and thus not muddy) and I could use the mat to scrape my shoes as I re-entered the house from the north. But when I have a patio I may change this.

I will also want walkways among the plantings. One obvious location is along the west wall of the garage. I store my garden tools in the northwest corner of the garage, so this is a logical route to the south gardens.

This is not all theory. Today I hauled about 500 pounds of ‘crusher fines’ that were in the path around the shared meadow. When the meadow path was laid out we missed a survey stake, so the crosses one private lot instead of remaining within shared territory. I filled a wheelbarrow (once only) and hauled this toward my lot — as far as I could until I reached a narrow bridge over the irrigation ditch. I used a pail for the rest of the trip to make the path extension to the barn. One load did not get me very far, but it is way too much work to repeat.

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