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Living a life without responsiblities is nice, but waking up without anything to do can get dull. Thank God I have a job. (No offense, VeganVixen)

in other news, I'm building a brick pateo for my family's house with no help with the labor and I think pretty soon I'm going to have to require my dad to get off his fat ass and help. Honestly, a 15'x25' pateo that requires removing 2500 bricks and the sand out of the way, digging about 4 inches into dirt, filling and leveling the area with gravel, laying and tamping 2 inches of sand, and then after all that laying the edging and bricks in a 90 degree herringbone pattern (which will require cutting) all the while using antique bricks that are close to 100 years old and have edges that are erroded, thus making it harder to sustain a constant pattern.

Yea...no way am i doing this by myself on my days off. it took 3 weeks to find the time just to take off and stack the bricks. Pops better get off his ass and help!

[Edited: NOW WITH PICTURES!]



This is where I'm working. That's the garage and my mom's garden, and the house is to the left.



Another angle, BTW, about 3/4 was covered with old deteriorated layout, and the area that was layed had stacked of bricks that had been pulled out before



These are all the bricks that I had to move off the area, about 2500 complete ones plus the broken ones in the pile that are going to be used for cutting.



A close up view of the bricks I'm working with. Apparently they're about 100 years old, with about 7 different makers printed on them. Apparently antique aged bricks cost a ton these days. Thank God the house came with them!

So yea, I'll make sure to take more pictures as we go along.