My story starts with a picture in a magazine, no not a girlie magazine, but one of those home beautiful magazines dangling from the check outs at the grocery store. About six months ago, while standing in line to pay for my groceries, I opened a copy of the latest "patio beautiful" type magazine and it featured an article on how to do a patio, walk and driveway turnaround all in used bricks.
Wow, the brick looked great and the home in the picture kind of looked like what I was living in. Well sort of, almost, kind of. My house wasn't all the way done, my garage didn't have a garage door, my walks weren't all poured and the landscaping for our house was never started, but that's just part of my story.
I was married to Big K, a big lug of a guy whose Polish last name was way to hard to pronounce let alone write, so everybody called him Big K, and I got nicknamed Ms K. Big K owned a construction company, a small time company with big ideas. One where the next job was always going to be the big money maker that would get the house done and we would be on our way to fame and fortune.
Well, fourteen years later, two kids, a dog and a cat, I'm still waiting for that once in the life time job. I had married Big K after he had come over to my parents' house one summer when I was home from college. Muscular, tanned, owned his own company, pretty impressive stuff to a college girl with her mind set on becoming a school librarian and living at home.
I did my best to catch Big K's eye when he was putting on my dads new screened in porch that entire summer. On the hot sunny days I would take him lemonade while in my bikini, lay outside by the pool and untie my top while in plain view of him and his crew; did my best slut walk as I would wiggle my ass when ever I was headed away from him.
Sitting inside my back bedroom, with the window open, I could hear the guys on his crew kid him and tell him to go get a piece of that cute little ass. I felt that eventually, unless he was gay, he would want to ask me out, and I was making it plain and clear what I had to offer. It took almost three weeks of me flaunting my girly charms; bikini's, short shorts, rubbing oil on my body while sun bathing for Big K to come around and ask me out. One Friday night he had stopped and was talking to my dad about pouring a patio for the new porch, and I had changed into a summer dress to go out and put in my two cents worth about what should be done. I think he asked me, or maybe it was my dad if it was ok for us to go out, but we both agreed on the following night
The next night, promptly at 7 in the evening, Big K rolled up in his truck, same truck, but all cleaned up. Dressed in a clean work shirt, neat blue jeans, and carrying a bouquet of freshly picked flowers, I and Big K started our torrid romance that would nine months later lead to out first child, Margot.
I am still not sure who was happier at the wedding, mom and dad who would finally see me moving out, my little brother Jeff who wanted my bedroom, or Big K who wanted me night and day naked in his bed. I guess it didn't matter as after a short and very physical honeymoon we moved into the partial completed house that I am going to landscape with 15,340 bricks. Yes, that is what I said, fifteen thousand, three hundred and forty bricks all laid end to end to enhance the appearance of our not yet finished house.
After buying and taking home the patio magazine, I showed Big K what my dream landscape job was going to be. And, like always, he had the labor, but we didn't have the money to buy the bricks. So, as stubborn as ever, I told Big K that if I got the bricks, would he and his guys lay them on the area I had already marked out. Just to get me off his back, Big K readily agreed that if I get the bricks, at no charge, he would be more then happy to do what I wanted, he would even build me a brick house. And that is the background for my story, 15,340 bricks, and why now I'm built like a brick house.
Chapter 2
When the county tore down the old library and built the new one, the same library that I had aspired to work in while at college, the demolition company had hauled away truck load after truck load of suitable bricks for my project and had dumped them at the old Smart farm out on the county road.
Knowing old man Smart, I got into Big K's truck and headed out to see if it would be ok to take some of the brick that was still piled by the back of the milking barn on the Smart farm. Pulling into the barn yard, Mr. Smart, not sure of his age, was more then happy to have some company. Must be pretty lonely to farm by yourself and have the closest neighbor be about a mile down the road. After two glasses of sweet tea, a tour of the garden and giving him a woman's opinion on how to hang curtains, we agreed that I could take all of the bricks I wanted if I would make him dinner for his birthday.
We shook hands, I kind of eyed the job and thought that I was going to be walking on my new patio in about one month's time ,huh, little did I know what was involved in moving bricks. I could use Big K's truck every evening after six, but I could only back up the truck to within about two hundred feet of the bricks. The bricks weren't all in nice piles; some were in stacks, some were mortared together and others were under construction material. Then I had to wheel barrow the bricks from their location, slightly uphill and then load them on the truck, after that there was the drive home and the bricks had to be unloaded that night so Big K could use his truck the next day. Ok, simple plan, right?
On March 15th, when I started the brick hauling, I was a married, had a kind of worn out plain looking mother appeal to my body. I was 5'4" tall, weighed 154, and everyone thought I was cute but a bit on the heavy side. I had big boobs that had to be squeezed into a size 16 dress; I guess my measurements were about 38d, 34, and 40. When I loaded my final brick on October 3rd, I was still the married wife, still 5'4" tall, but now I weighed 109 pounds, tanned all over my body except where I wore my bikini, and had trimmed, tightened and toned ever muscle in my body. My size 4 body looked like I was a teenager again; in fact, my daughter's clothes were now part of my wardrobe. My measurements became 34B, 22, 34, and my attitude and my self confidence blossomed as other men started to notice a thinner, perky, happy woman.
If you add up all of the steps, lifts, tugs, throws and pushes, I guess I had spent the last seven months in the gym working out seven days a week. Two hundred and sixty steps pushing a wheelbarrow to the truck does great things for your legs and ass, lifting cleaning and throwing hundreds of bricks a night firms your arms, takes out the fat from your stomach and tones up your boobs, and after countless times of climbing up the truck bed, jumping down off the bed and pushing debris around, all of that grunting and groaning made me a lot tougher and aggressive.
Old man Smart got to be a pretty good friend over those months, many times he was standing there waiting on me to drive in and get my load that night. I learned a lot about him and his past family, and he learned about me. He had been widowed for ten years, his only son had died in the war and running the farm by oneself was a job and then more. I thought Old man smart was just one of those old codgers that had nothing else to do but talk my ear off and ask me questions every night that I drove in.
I didn't really notice any of my body changes while I was moving all of the bricks. I had always worn my oldest clothes to get the bricks and after about a month, I had added a belt to keep the pants up, when it got hot, I went from pants to an old pair of shorts, then a month later to a pair of shorts that my daughter use to wear for gym.
One day, old man Smart had drug up a few piles of bricks with his tractor so he could make a path to one of his fields. He had dumped them under a tree outside of his backdoor so I could clean the bricks and load in the shade, and then he was going to smooth out what was left and pour a patio on top of the debris. I was grateful for the help and that night, and while wearing my daughter's gym shorts over my bikini bottoms with an old sweatshirt to cover my bikini top, I pulled in and started the process of getting the bricks. Hard at work for about an hour, bending over, reaching up, straddling the piles, old man Smart came out to see how it was going. I kept working as we were taking and he kept maneuvering around the front of me and then behind me to offer any assistance that he could. After about a half hour he wished me luck and headed back inside.
I didn't think much of what he did, until I glanced in one of the side mirrors on the truck and I saw him staring behind an upstairs window looking at me and beating off. As I bent over and stretched I guess I had provided him quite the show. At first I was shocked and then thought what the hell, I was out here alone, he was helpful, so I thought what the fuck, let's let the old guy have a good time. I turned and faced the farm house, pulled off my sweatshirt and undid my bikini top, took a towel and wiped my chest and tits off and then put my top back on, two minutes after I had put the top back on, I thought I heard an, "on my god I'm coming".