I'm thinking that there aren't to many more seasons for the wagon. She has rusted clear thru the front and the front wheels and handle are just sitting there propping up the rest of the wagon. This will probably be her final resting place. The front tires have no rubber on them at all. I know Mark found this but I can't remember where. I'll have to get back to you on that one.
Dewey and Betsy found this screen door for me at SEM. I love it and it just adds a little something to the bed that really doesn't have and pizazz yet...a work in progress. But the black-eyed Susan's have taken over. I kinda like the look.
This poor old bike, I don't think it is going to be up for another more around the yard. Over the winter I look out the windows and try to figure out how I can switch things up a bit in the spring when we first get out in the yard to begin the clean up. Mark has always wanted to hang this in the tree...like at Serendipity...(which by the way will be featured on American Pickers on the History Channel sometime in the future) but I like it under the wind chime tree. We may have to remove the tires because they are starting to rot.
These bed springs, which you can hardly see for the climbing hydrangea, used to lean against an old barn on Gallaher Street in Huntington. The barn belonged to one of my grandfathers old cronies. One day I asked Big Bob what he was going to do with the springs. "Nothin', they have been there for years. You want them? You can have them." So off we trucked back to Cincinnati with rusty bed springs tied to the top of the van.
Large Item Pick-Up day is just about my most favorite trash pickin' day ever! We ran across this window and several others last summer when my Dad was here. At first when we told him what we were doing, he wasn't real sure he wanted to be involved. I promised him that he wouldn't have to jump out of the van to get anything. Mark would drive, he and Michael would be the spotters and I would be the jumper/picker. (Those are all very technical terms) Isn't it amazing that you can train gourds to climb around the window. We will see what happens when there is a heavy gourd on the vine.
One day driving down an alley in Huntington I saw this old sink. It is a heavy one. I always fill it with Inpatients. I had some leftover seeds and just threw the seed heads in and just look what came up! Now that is the way to plant!
Can't actually say that this is a trash pickin' treasure, but it is a rusty treasure. Mark found a little shop on the back roads in WI one day. And this goose just flew right into his arms...with a little help from me. And look at those hosta filling in around the old oak tree very nicely. And naked ladies are starting to pop up everywhere. I love it when they finally do that!
Before you jump to any conclusions...we did not cut a hole in Mr John's fence....we just put a mirror I acquired from who remembers where....I think it might have been over the mantle when we moved in...and I just found it when I was cleaning out for the rummage sales of all rummage sales. It has been collecting dust for years in the basement. I love the way the black-eyed Susan's are reflected in it.
I got in touch with this wonderful woman 32 seconds after these posts were posted on FreeCycle...my best time yet! Nicest lady. Her parents were cleaning about from behind their barn. The first job was to remove an old fence...my favorite kind. These post are 6 and 8 feet long and I have a million ideas. Now to get Mark on board with them and then to get them accomplished. They also have a rabbit hutch...I'm thinking we need a rabbit...........
Emmy told us about the craziest thing...Large Item Pick-Up in Maderia, OH. Here's the deal...people up large items, the ones that you want to get rid of but the trash guys won't pick up., out by the curb. Everyone goes around the neighborhood...hopefully with a large truck or trailer and 'garbage picks'. I love it! We took my Dad the last time they had one. He thought we were nuts, but we got some great stuff. This bird feeder is a little tarnished ( the better I like it) but it is a National Geographic bird feeder...says so right on the lid. I love it. I think it is my most favorite feeder of all. And we hung it right by the kitchen window so I can open the shutters and see the birds eat all day long if I want to. Great for nature photo ops too.
I had to ask Mark where we got the banister. He remembered the banister came from an old white barn in Lake Geneva, WI. I know exactly where the garden angel came from. When Sarah was in first grade, when she first came to live with us, I helped out in her classroom doing anything her teacher needed me to do. At the end of the year Amy Feldkamp gave me a garden angel that all the kids had signed on the back. She has since lost her bucket and the grapevine but she still keeps watch over all the flowers in the yard. The jar candles are a little creation Emmy and I made a few summers ago. We have them hanging everywhere that you can drive a nail. And they look so wonderful at night. Magical I tell you. All we did was save every shape and size of glass jar. 'Tied' and piece of wire around the top and a few curled hanging down, a loop on the back and there you have it. The only thing is that you have to empty them after a rain.
I've said it a hundred time, but I do have the best neighbors in the world. Everywhere we have moved, we have been blessed with great neighbors that are good friends. I think our neighbors here think we have gone off the deep end by all the 'treasures' we have in the yard. 'Boot Country' neighbors pull little treasures out ever so often. I love this willow heart and so do the birds. A few days after Mark put it up for me we saw one for sale...$85...we about dropped our teeth. I did bring myself to ask Kay if she wanted it back since it was so expensive. She said heck no. I said Yippee!
If I am remembering right, this is my old sled from when I was a little girl. We lived at almost the top of a pretty good size hill on a dead end street and when it snowed somehow the street would get blocked off so the salt truck couldn't come down and throw salt and ruin all the fun. All the neighborhood kids would sleigh ride until after dark. The grown-ups would come out too. I remember one time we had a huge piece of clear plastic and there must have been 20 people, young and old, sliding down the hill. We did a 180 and cracked up all the way to the bottom. The rocks are from one of the families that Emmy's babysits for. They tore out a wall and didn't know what to do with the rocks....Mark and Jan's Rock Hauling to the rescue.
Nothing any better than homemade ice cream. There is a place in C-K that has the best banana that you will ever in your life eat...Austin's. We use to stop there on the way back from a day at Dreamland....ahhh, back in the day!
This picture is filled with lots of treasures. First the pink pillow. It is a pillow but no one that I would want to lay my head on. A mold was made and then colored cement was poured in to form the garden stone. I can't tell you how may people have picked it up to put on the bench, thinking it had fallen off. Mark and I found them (I have two shapes) at our all time favorite garden center...North Wind Perennials in WI. Then there is the broken pitch fork that I think Papaw found in one of his houses. The bench made the trip from WI to Cinti with us. It used to sit out under the willow trees in the back yard in the shade garden. And last but not least, the bucket was a $1 find at a yard sale on the yard sale o the way back from picking strawberries a few weeks ago. The lilies of the valley and azalea are from Sweet Pap in WV. See, told you this shot was filled with lots of treasures.
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