All in all it's just another brick in the ............

So if am thinking about how to build a brick wall I start with a brick. I've used brick so even without having one in front of me I can feel it. Bricks are nice because they are easy to pick up and put into place. As opposed to concrete blocks that are a bit more cumbersome. So I can feel the brick and the drawing starts with a brick, three bricks high with three joints is 8 inches. One brick long with one joint is 8 inches. The width of one brick and joint is 4 inches.

A drawing may start with a number of bricks in some arrangement. Oh but these brick need to rest on something. If it's ground and the ground freezes the bricks will move and possible damage the assembly. Let's dig a hole deep enough to avoid frost.

If the wall is only one brick wide, like Mr. Jefferson's serpentine wall, maybe there should be something more stable on which to set the first brick. Maybe a concrete footing that wider than the brick. The concrete, if properly placed, taken over by gravity, should settle to a somewhat level state. Might need forms depending the type of dirt we are digging in. So let's summarize: bricks, mortar joints, hole, level foundation, type of dirt.

So, Mr. Jefferson is a soils analyst, excavator, carpenter to make the forms, concrete mixer and placer and finally bricklayer. This is a question of checking level and establishing work points. Work points are needed to accomplish the design intent or CORE so that we arrive at serpentine wall and not a straight wall with piers.