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I'm getting too excited about this dullness
Then I won't mention the other palette of stone and 1/2 yard of sand to cover the beams, make a porch and steps, and create a walkway on the poorly draining path to the fence gate.
I think you mean pallet. Unless it's all about the subtle nuances of color in the stones and sand. Which I do see, and are nice.
Pallet has the 2 wood slats (ll) in the middle.
Palette has the artsy-fartsy French "ette" at the end.
Palate has "ate" to remind you it's about your mouth.
Yeah, pallet. I will have 3 empty ones for making planter boxes or something else.
That's funny, in french both are palettes
And this is one of the times knowing french has thwarted my english spelling.
Imagine, if you will, Bob Ross in a French artist's beret, holding his pale white palette 🎨. Scraping a thin roll of paint onto his palette knife, about to add a shoreline and a waterfall. He'd look pretty silly with a pallet, eh?
Oh geez, I just looked up the etymology (palete: shovel and paîllete: bunch of straw but both Old French) and discovered a "pallet" can also be a layer of blankets on the floor! I'm going to hazard a guess those blankets would have originally been in the hayloft or in a field on a heap of straw.
No, you’re a palette
So hows the ground below? Looking at this picture, I'm wondering if there might be some uneven setting in effects. Or how much area have you covered with the stones regarding contact pressure to the ground?
The ground below was flattened and covered in cardboard last year. This year we pulled the cardboard, tilled and leveled the dirt, then a layer of leveling sand, tamped that down, layer of pine mulch for acidity, then the stones. The cottage stone is nowhere near uniform when it comes to height, so we knew the floor won't be level but hopefully the mulch breaking down will help with that some.
Is a half yard like 1/14⅖th of a centner? 😉
(Sorry, I find ye olde English measurements endlessly amusing!)
I forgot that the UK and US are the only ones using yards.
0.3823 cubic meters for the civilized world.