Did the house start falling apart or did the homeowner stop maintaining it? A chicken-and-egg question. While I was happily cavorting through the Badlands thunderstorms ripped across the Midwest, and I returned home to find bricks from my chimney littering the yard. I picked up bricks and chunks of mortar, but have yet to get to the random sticks and branches. It seems too big a job. It's scary easy to say "I'll do it later." That's the beginning of a long slope with no good outcome.
