West gate fall project - Done

Here is the finished west inside gate landing. I covered it with fine sand and dragged a plastic trash can half full of sand over and around on top of it for compaction. Then I swept it with a counter brush. This exposed some joints that were not filled completely so I repeated troweling sand into the joints and compacting it. Then I swept it off again and that was that. I ended up completely re-shaping this area from two feet on either side of the gate forward two feet past the end of the brick.
I love this kind of stuff. It is like doing sculpture to me. But it is a creation that is also handy as hell. This is exactly what I dreamed of when we first began to think about a fence a couple of years ago. If I want, I can do the same on the outside of the gate, butting that brick with this brick to make a continual landing from this point to a point equal on the other side.