Oh we also took as many loose bricks from our yard as we could find. We lived in North Haven CT, which was once known as the brick capital of the country. It had several brickyards. The property we lived on used to be a farm and there were outbuildings made from these bricks. Whoever developed the land, left a lot of the debris on the ground. We had a few dozen bricks in our back yard, and an antique enamel-over-cast-iron farm sink, and a whole bunch of other really cool things (plus a LOT of arrowheads - this was Native American territory before the brickyards were built).
I've used some of the bricks to line the flowerbed in my front yard. We left the sink, but I had turned it into a planter on an old wrought-iron and wooden plank bench I rescued from someone's curb on trash day one year.
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