It's summertime in Wisconsin and I've been busy going to auctions, one of my favorite activities. SW and I had discussed buying pavers to cover the dirt floor in the garden shed (which is rapidly developing into a "she-shed".) It was a great idea, but it wasn't until I bought an auction lot of old bricks that I was able to come up with a plan.
The bricks had been collected by someone (thank you someone!) from various places. They were different colors and ages, some quite old. My favorites were the yellow bricks, but there was a limited number of those. Eventually I decided to use the yellow bricks to form a "sun" motif.
Here is a photo of the bricks after we loaded them into our pickup truck and hauled them home. Although the bricks only cost us $15.00 we were a little concerned that the heavy load would break a spring in the truck! It was really riding low to the ground. But we got lucky . . . and home, no harm done. These bricks were piled up in back of a barnyard, so we first loaded them up for transport then unloaded them into our garage. That's two times moved, and then a third time to the garden from the garage. An average brick weighs six pounds. So when I say we moved a ton of bricks, I'm really not exaggerating!
 |
| A ton of bricks! |
Moving that ton of bricks on a very hot day!
SW and I are not professional bricklayers but we learned some things by going to Pinterest where you can get good ideas and then link to step-by-step instructions for DIY. We were quite pleased with the finished product and will enjoy sitting in the garden even more than we did before.
 |
| Take Care! --The Elevated Bag Lady |
No comments:
Post a Comment