Like a Ton of Bricks!

  Yep, the title speaks of a truth.  A ton of bricks (or at least it seemed that much) were hauled from one side of the yard to the other.  My son, Michael, is laying bricks as a floor in the greenhouse that he built. These will not be mortared in but rather "sanded" meaning that after he gets them positioned he will pour sand over them and sweep it into the cracks.  Easy-peasy!  Not so.  Hauling these suckers from the west side to the east side of the yard was no simple task.  Since there is no clear path to where we needed the bricks, the truck was most useless. To add to the difficulty of the job, most of the bricks were embedded in dirt from a previous project.  Each one had to be dug out of the ground, loaded into the wheelbarrow and then shoved around to the greenhouse.  We opted to take them the long way around as the short-as the crow flies-path would take us up a steep grassy (and slippery) hill.  At least the other way was more or less level.  

  The digging and loading of bricks was partly my job.  Michael was busy leveling the dirt inside the greenhouse.  Whenever I had the wheelbarrow loaded, he would come to shove it around back.  This job was one that I did not want!  Balancing several hundred pounds of bricks does not seem to be a favorable chore to me!  Between the two of us, we put the wheelbarrow's iron wheel to the test!  (I am happy to say, it survived!)

  The moving would not have been quite so bad if not for the myriad of critters lurking in amongst the bricks.  Spiders and ants, in particular, seem to love having brick homes.  Each brick had to be inspected before picking it up or we would grasp ahold to a lovely (and biting) bug!  

   This chore is now complete and, in the morning, the floor design shall begin.  I can hardly wait as this is the final touch to the greenhouse!  It will be finished just in time for the winter and my plants will have a nice, toasty-warm place to protect them from the frigid air!  I am already dreaming of greenhouse peppers and perhaps a squash or two!