What a great day to be outside. The question of the day: whose idea was it 25 years ago to outline the flower gardens with bricks? We needed to make it easier to till the gardens and also to mow up to the edges. It was amazing how much heavier and larger the “old time” bricks were in comparison to the terracotta colored newer ones. With just the right clash the newer ones would break or chip. I can’t imagine what it would take to break the older ones in half or to even chip them. My hands had all they could do to span the width of the old ones. We stacked them neatly against the railroad ties that are the foundation of the potting shed. When the time comes to give the potting shed a new coat of paint, we sure do not want to be moving these behemoth bricks another time and Dennis did not want them stacked against the sheeting of the potting shed.
Our Fleet and Farm wheelbarrow, that was a special years ago for $19.99, would really have its frame twisted if more than 20 of the heavier bricks were loaded into it at one time. The far east flower garden will have to wait to be de-bricked, as Dennis and I need to rest up a bit. The plan is to take the pickup to the far east bed: load them all at one time and haul them home with one trip.
Yup, the older ones on Stauffer made great strides today in keeping the gardening a bit easier to manage. There was no counting the volunteer maple seedlings that thought the space between the bricks was up for grabs.