I want to use the gravel screenings I quarry from the patio around this gate. That has been my intention when we first began planning to install the fence. I planned to have excess material for this purpose and others. In this stage of the project I want to get these projects right the first time. I could easily use all the material I take from the patio around the gate and alongside the utility porch in the top photo. But I have this feeling that I want to skimp and "go cheap". I want to hoard as much material as I can for something else. Skimping may bring poor results, if I want to take that chance. Maybe that boils down to just plain laziness. If Sam was here he'd say, "Do I detect a note of timidity?" (That's a line from the movie "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", I think.)
But there is this Dudley Doright side of the human psyche that challenges the hero in us. I should enter into this improvement to do the thing right so that in the future I'm not sorry that I skimped on an important improvement. If it turns out wrong for some unforeseen reason I have the ability to recover the screenings. I just want to do this once and I want it to result in an improvement with far more value than it cost. Is that too much to ask?
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