I've started to notice that not all gardening work is about the growing and tending of the green stuff... sometimes, it is making sure all the right materials are in the right place, and lots of dragging around things that aren't in the right place to be in the right place... which will end up being the wrong place a few months later, and will need to be dragged to a different place... which might well be the very place that you started from.

That could be bags of manure, rocks, and all manner of other things... and this takes time, and effort... and that does take away from the quieter and more fun part of tending to the green stuff.

Anyway, we have a few trees that are due for some heavy trimming or outright removal. A few of the large wattles will be coming down, these are the ones that snapped during recent strong winds... and they will be ground down to the ground as well. And there is a large gum tree that is huge and leaning quite severely... we had approval to take that down last year, but we did a first major pruning to see if taking weight off would improve things. It did not... not disastrous, but seeing as we are doing a big tree clean up, we figured we may as well take it down now.

And there is another smaller gum that is also leaning at an almost 45 degree angle, that also had lost a large branch in the recent stiff winds.

... and finally, this pictured Nicolai gum tree that is old and is known for dropping branches. It overhangs the neighbour's parking area, and so we thought that it would be a good idea to take it down before it dropped something on their parked cars.

Unfortunately, it is also where we are storing the bricks for the rest of our retaining wall. It was the closest that the delivery could be made to the actual building area... and so, it was all placed near or under that Nicolai that will be coming down. Sigh... and the tree guys said that they would likely plan in for the next month or two... and we aren't going to be able to use up all the materials in that time.

So, bricks have to move... just in case a huge wood thing drops on them, which will likely destroy more than a few bricks! And they aren't that cheap...

So, first things first... dragging over some of the empty pallets so that I have a place to start stacking the bricks. That would empty some of the pallets in the storage area, and then I would be able to drag those over to start emptying out the full pallets.

... these pallets are really heavy as well! Well, at least for a single person who is a bit on the slightly built side of things! But, I did manage to eventually drag them about 15 metres from the old storage location to the new location.

One full morning's worth of lugging bricks one by one to the new area. This is all of the partially used pallets. Corners, tops, and some of the regular sides. Individually, not crazily heavy... but after many trips... well, you start to feel it!

... and these are the two completely full pallets that are directly under the tree. I can see one already broken brick, thankfully we ordered a buffer of bricks... my wife didn't think we would need to, but I insisted.

... and after two rows, I had had enough for the day. I still had to do some music practice, as well as some accounting and administration. So, I think that the rest of this will take one more solid morning and then I will be done. It was pretty heavy work, but in the end, not as horrible as I had thought. Definitely doable, but it needs time... and that is sort of the thing that I'm a little bit short of this month! Ah well, needs to be done...

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