Stop in for a cup of coffee

I'm just about ready to use my wood stove. Decided to have a look at the chimney above it to see if it dried out. You may recall that I pumped about 5 gal out of it with a shop vac a month ago... It dried out nicely, and now that I could see the bottom I noticed an object that did not belong there.:wtf: Looked like metal. so tried a magnet first. Slight pull, but not enough to grab. Got it out in two pieces with a coat hanger. Someone dropped a 25 ft tape measure down the chimney. screw holding Aluminum case together had rusted away, and the steel tape had rusted into a blob. lol