When we were cleaning out and removing the unwanted and unusable items from an tigin during our first year of renovation, Martin saved the old bricks from the chimney. The chimney was only held together by the creosote! Then he chipped off as much of the old mortar as he could and stacked them in the yard.
This summer, I was volunteered to clean off the bricks a bit better and bring them into the house and to sort them into piles. A lot of the bricks were obviously seconds; they were different lengths, widths and thicknesses. Some had holes and hollows in them.
While I was pulling them out of the pile in the yard and moving them to the house, I discovered one garter snake, seven snake skins, a vole nest, and a cache of acorns (not counting the various cocoons, spiders, dead bugs, live bugs, etc.)
After cleaning them off, I tried my best to organize them in stacks of good, okay, and doubtful in terms of usability.
We are going to build a half brick wall in the corner and a brick hearth for the wood stove in the above picture,
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