"I built a flagstone patio, nothing too large, about 15 by 20 feet.
"I built a flagstone patio, nothing too large, about 15 by 20 feet. It was the worst weekend of my life. Digging six inches into hard clay soil sucked. Making the ground completely flat sucked. Everything is heavy — the bags of rocks, the bags of sand, the stones — and getting everything totally level at the end was a pain. Never, never again."