No More Bricks!
Today we finally laid the last brick in place, and I never have to pick one up ever again.
Total square feet of brick: 1,633
Total number of bricks: 7,348.5
Total pounds of brick: 40,416.75 (That's a over 20 tons!)
Total man hands acquired: 2
You'll have to trust me that the other one looks just the same. Take note specifically of the insane muscle at the base of my thumb. I wish I had a "before" photo so you could see how my hand used to have just webbing there, and taper ever-so-elegantly from my forefinger to my wrist.
Anyway, once all the bricks were down, Kirk went over them with the compactor again. Then it was time to exercise a whole different set of muscles (specifically, triceps and lower back) for sanding them in place.
To do this, you shovel some sand (which has been dumped, like everything else, in a giant pile in the driveway) into the wheelbarrow and pour it in a pile on the bricks.
Then you grab a push broom and start pushing the sand over the bricks. You have to do this about a million times until the sand goes in all the little cracks between the bricks to lock them into place. Oh, you went over it 16 times and there's a little empty space somewhere? Keep pushin', pal.
This job sucked.
Tomorrow Kirk will get up early and break the rules of Family Fun Day by going over this all one last time with the compactor. After that, we'll be riding bikes and seeing "Cars 2" and generally trying to make sure our kids don't grow up into resentful pottymouths who swear at us on "Maury."
Total square feet of brick: 1,633
Total number of bricks: 7,348.5
Total pounds of brick: 40,416.75 (That's a over 20 tons!)
Total man hands acquired: 2
You'll have to trust me that the other one looks just the same. Take note specifically of the insane muscle at the base of my thumb. I wish I had a "before" photo so you could see how my hand used to have just webbing there, and taper ever-so-elegantly from my forefinger to my wrist.
Anyway, once all the bricks were down, Kirk went over them with the compactor again. Then it was time to exercise a whole different set of muscles (specifically, triceps and lower back) for sanding them in place.
To do this, you shovel some sand (which has been dumped, like everything else, in a giant pile in the driveway) into the wheelbarrow and pour it in a pile on the bricks.
Then you grab a push broom and start pushing the sand over the bricks. You have to do this about a million times until the sand goes in all the little cracks between the bricks to lock them into place. Oh, you went over it 16 times and there's a little empty space somewhere? Keep pushin', pal.
This job sucked.
Tomorrow Kirk will get up early and break the rules of Family Fun Day by going over this all one last time with the compactor. After that, we'll be riding bikes and seeing "Cars 2" and generally trying to make sure our kids don't grow up into resentful pottymouths who swear at us on "Maury."
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