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So yesterday I made 28 bricks before 2 pm and today I made 21 after. It’s not exactly hard work so there is potential for big numbers of bricks per day. But I’m down to less than 100 bricks to lay now so it doesn’t matter if I have 2 big days or 4 average days. 50 of my bricks are still drying anyway. Things are coming together!

It would be fair to say I could have used my time better today. I was busy practicing my tennis serve, reading, cooking, and sleeping. But I finished strongly and just had the most fanastic day. I loved it.

Yesterday I was pretty excited to strap the running shoes on and go for a jaunt up Bowenvale. At the start of that track I saw a guy grooming his backyard bike park with a hose. Today I couldn’t stop thinking about how cool it would be to have a racetrack in the treed area.

Paul came around at the start of things today, and I felt sure I would have an ally in him for some track creation. No. He was relentless in his push for MORE BRICKS MORE BRICKS MORE BRICKS!

We laid bricks and chatted away. By the time we were done we had managed a lame 11 bricks. I did manage to talk him into shooting one of the bricks with a gun. That was fun. The brick (a reject one) didn’t even care. We shot at it several times and weren’t even really damaging it. The brick didn’t handle me swinging at it with a piece of wood so well though.



I mowed the track. I walked round out there plenty, planning where the turns would be, the jumps and the banked turns. Good times. I snapped and moved around some branchs to make way for my track. I then rode round the track many many times. There is quite a gradient there which I wasn’t really aware of. It wasn’t that fun riding up hill, couldn’t go fast, but awesome downhill. I’ll be able to alleviate the first uphill stretch a bit by creating a starting launch ramp.

Finished laying bricks in the dark with the halogen on, perfectly acceptable conditions.