Sat 10 Mar 2007
The Pile of Bricks To Move
Cathy and I have had plans for years for what we would do if we ever had a pile of bricks. Our friends recently replaced their brick patio, and they offered to give us all their old bricks for free! It all seemed so easy; just get the bricks from our friends’ house, put them in a pile at our house, and complete our various brick projects at our convenience.
Our old minivan can only haul about a quarter ton each trip, but that wasn’t the limiting factor today. I was. After four trips I was done. Unfortunately the pile of bricks in our friends’ driveway was not done. It was only barely smaller.
I also think we will end up with enough bricks to pave our entire yard. That would certainly cut down on lawn mowing, but it’s not what we had in mind. So I’m going to have to figure out just how many bricks we want and come up with a plan to fulfill my promise to my friend to get all the bricks out of his driveway!
On the left is what one of our brick projects will look like. On the right is the measly, small pile of bricks in our driveway that finished me off today.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
So how did all these bricks eventually get moved?
April 4th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I took a vacation day and Andrew helped me haul as many as we decided to take. We ended up taking only 1/3 of the pile – and even now I think it was too much.
My eyes were bigger than my capacity to build brick pavement areas!