I have this thing about bricks, especially the old ones with the brick company's name so elegantly shown on them.....this group of bricks actually came orginally from the city of St. Joseph, Michigan ( where Janet and Gail both grew up, and live there now)....

Several years ago, while they were tearing up the brick streets in town to put down concrete or asphalt they have now ...( fools !) the powers that be, offered the old bricks free to the people of the town....each brick weighs about 7 pounds I hear tell. Gail and her husband have these brick paving walkways all around her house...the mind boggles at how much all those bricks weighed and the logistics of getting them from town out to the lake...whew, I bet they went to bed real tired every night while that project was in progress ! Not to mention probably going through several sets of shocks on the truck .....it doesn't take that many bricks to put a heavy load in any vehicle.......