Moving Rocks at My Age

I am too old to be moving rocks, but on the same still winter afternoon in January that I installed the birdhouse pole, I moved two flagstones over. I put them next to the birdbath, making a half circle.

The center stone which doesn't quite line up with the big one to the left, actually looks fine from above and the Turkish speedwell there at the junction will soften it.

The lower patio is more defined now.

The two stones flank the birdbath now. They had been oddly placed along the side of the deck -- I think I wanted the suggestion of a walk. But they finish off the square of the lower flagstone patio better now.

Around the birdbath now  --- before they had run along the edge of the deck. Sort of.

I pried them up with a cobra claw without too much fuss and I didn't prepare a flat surface for them by the birdbath. I just scraped away some of the gravel and plunked them down. 

They are stable and even. No wobbles. Huh. I thought it would be much harder. Even so, what am I doing at age 76 moving stones? 

One mishap -- an irrigation feeder line got damaged. I'll have Jeronimo fix it in spring. Meanwhile I marked it with a metal stake.

Alliums will remain next to the birdbath on the left, but I had already taken out the orange agastache on the right. Now, with the flagstones there I may place a pot, or leave it open.

I am planning to put in some plants all along the fence to the right of the birdbath, just at the edge of these newly placed stones.