Nice score! It is shocking how expensive wood is these days!
Marianne, interesting you should mention bricks. Nice that you scrounged so many! We inherited some large round aggregate circles that were so popular in the '50s, and I have always liked bricks, and it took me several years of obsessing about how to combine them before I saw a snaking brick pattern that I fell in love with. I placed the large circles in various places, then started filling in between/around them, and I just love the results. But loading/driving/ unloading/pushing in a wheelbarrow/unloading to the ground and placing 2600 bricks was a hot and sweaty job one summer!