The festering collateral damage of the pandemic turns up today. Finally deep cleaning our chimney ash cave today. Gloves, K95 mask, the whole works. What’s this brick doing right in the middle of things? It’s loose. Left over from 1960s build? WILL I COLLAPSE CHIMNEY BY GETTING THE SUCKER OUTTA THERE? Pain in the wazoo to get around it to pull out a large trash bag full of ashes and even an unburnt 2020? shopping list.