Going Round and Round, and Round
It was one year ago today I was flying to Indianapolis, Indiana to get a U-Haul and pick up and transport a hoard of bricks. It seems that bricks have been the core of my existence lately. I just know Ron is looking down and shaking his head as I redo what I had hoped was a finished project! To keep my sanity this will concentrate on just the sidewalk.
I’m just going to use bullets and pictures.
· This shot is from 1996 the year I bought my house. This yard was so overgrown. The walkway to the back door was cinderblocks.
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· This shot is from 1999 showing the cleaned up yard and painted workshop.
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· Here is the poured sidewalk from about 2001. Note the different levels and crazy angles up by the gate.
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· Move ahead in time to 2009. This mish mash has been evened out and paving bricks laid. The cement walkway still is intact.
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· Fast forward to the Fall of 2011. The cement and pea gravel is coming out
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· Form laid out.
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&midd
ot; Nelsonville Star Sidewalk bricks going in.
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· In August 2012 the Nelsonville Star bricks came out to be replaced with the “train station bricks” which are a smaller size.
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· This brings us to the present. Since installing the fire hydrants a few years back, the grass has been pretty impossible to maintain. It has been slowly dying back and being taken over by weeds. Time for more bricks.
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· What I now plan on doing is to take out the side brick off the cement form and extending the herringbone brick to the raised brick edge.
· “Like a squirrel in a cage going round, and round, and round!!”
Well I must say I have to give you credit for the amount of work you’ve done. Ambition is you middle name, I guess.
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Lovely!!
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There are those who might say you are NUTZ! Not me, just ambitious and unable to be satisfied with what is and always wanting to see what might be. I like that!! What did you do with all of the Nelsonville Star bricks?
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Great work!
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I LOVE the way that it looks.
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It’s lovely, but there is a point when you call allow yourself to say “enough.” LOL
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RYN: I have read “Appetite for America”, and it was a truly good read. I’ve been reading just about everything I can get my hands on about Fred Harvey and the Harvey Houses and I’m becoming pretty knowledgeable about them. The big hotels still exist in Las Vegas (NM), Santa Fe, Gallup, and Winslow, but the ones in Las Vegas and Gallup are no longer ‘hotels’, as we know the term. The Castañedain Las Vegas is sitting empty next to the tracks and slowly crumbling into the landscape. The owner is trying to sell it, but it will take $10 million or more to clean it up, modernize it, and make is habitable without all the asbestos that is in it. The Montezuma is now the home of a branch of Armand Hammer’s United World College and the grounds are closed. The El Navajo in Gallup is sitting empty, as far as I know. Of course the La Fonda in Santa Fe is right on the Plaza so it is still alive and busy, and the La Posada in Winslow has been renovated and is accepting guests again. There are people here in Albuquerque who still get wet eyes when the Alvarado is mentioned. There is a new ‘Alvarado’ transportation center, but it isn’t the same.
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You have high standards. Your fire hydrants remind me of flowers in a garden.
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Baby, if this isn’t a Labor of Love, I don’t know what is!
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Maybe like a squirrel but your brickwork, to me, is art and history. My heart smiles each time I see it and with no small degree of envy!
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