Here’s a Manitoba truth nobody likes to say out loud: our patio season is short, and we spend a good chunk of it flipping burgers on a rusty cart grill that’s half-blocking the back door, running inside every three minutes for a plate, a spatula, a cold drink, the thing we forgot. It’s fine. But […]
You’ve seen it. The patio down the street that looked like a million bucks the summer it went in — smooth, stamped to look like flagstone, the whole works. And you’ve seen it three winters later, with a crack wandering across it like a river on a map, right through the middle of the “stone” […]