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> From: Gabriel Orgrease
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:58 PM
> 
> we were asked if 
> we wanted the left over old brick and I said, no, let the other mason 
> who asked for it have it
> i get in trouble for enough loose brick in the yard as it is, and all 
> this would need the mortar cleaned off, and what the hell cld 
> I think to do w/ it

I have a small collection of lovely 1920s Arts & Crafts earth-toney historic bricks salvaged from my house where we pulled some veneer off for a small addition during the rehab in 1994. I also have a larger but still relatively small collection of modern 3-hole bricks left from foundation work that differ from the originals because they were matched to earlier additions to which my addition connected.

The historic ones I am saving "just in case" I need to do any repairs because I will surely not be able to match them in the variation of color and texture they possess. The others I save because I bought them and they are left over and I am my father's son and can't throw them away.

My wife keeps grabbing my historic bricks and sticking them in the ground for her various landscaping impulses because the 3-hole ones that I would rather she use have stupid holes in them that really don't work for her little projects. I don't want my historic bricks to dissolve in the moist freeze-thaw soil contact.

So we have this little brick dance that we do where the bricks move back and forth across and between the yard and the piles.

Can I come to all y'all when we need marriage counseling over the loose bricks in my yard?

Sigh me,

Last Tango
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