Oh! For the love of TRASH!

[Lynn Radford]

Sometimes, living on a 7 acre plot, where it was routine to dig holes and bury trash in bygone years, has it's advantages. DK wanders the streets of Elgin, eyes wide open for bits of this and that. Me, I tend to hunt in my own backyard: Piney Creek Acres.

Last week, I was walking the dog and the sun glinted off something shiny and black! I couldn't imagine what it might be, this shiny, black crescent peeping up out of the muddy ground above our well room! I put the dog inside and grabbed a teaspoon, from the kitchen counter, with which to uncover my treasure! (No patience for a trip to the basement in search of the proper tool for the job!)

I was rewarded with this:

You might think that this knob once graced one of the house's many doors... I think it's more likely that the former owner imported trash from other homes in the area, while he was building this post-war brick ranch. It is said that his son's job, when he arrived home from school each day, was to dig a large hole which would be filled with...

 

Wait for it...

 

Wait for it...

 

TRASH!!!

A friend recently introduced me to another, saying, "Lynn, she's interested in Archaeology!" as though it were a common interest between us. I never thought much about it, but maybe she made a connection I might otherwise have missed.

No mail here, folks, this piece is destined for assemblage art! Have a D-lightfully Trashy week, all! :D

 

[DKeys]

I think DVS needs to add Trasharcheology to the handbook I think-the art of scouting for trash strata for purposes of documenting history through discards!

[Lynn Radford]

Trashaeology! A far better word, to be sure! Glad you liked the post, Skybridge! :D

[Lynn Radford]

Thanks for the affirmation, Neil! :D I just never put 2 + 2 together. Trash is. I am. We are. ARchaeology. :D

I just re-read that. Sounds like a cheer... LOL

Thanks for the great commentary, Nancy! Please don't get the wrong idea about me... I am essentially one of the laziest procrastinators around. If work can be avoided, I'll find a way! :D I would never have begun digging a hole in a random spot, looking for trash... The glint is what grabbed me. And much like Nancy Drew, I just HAD to solve the mystery!

 

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Great blog, Lynn! It probably is archaeology in a way, or can be. You were unlazy, which makes you a trashpo archaeologist for sure. Some of us tend more to wait for trash to fly up into our faces or to lie out there with a sign that means "Take Me!" on its forehead. But still, the trash heaps of the world will always be irresistible.

[Neil Gordon]

Trash is archaeology Lynn! That's were all the good stuff is found that tell us about peoples every day lives! Every archaeology site in the world..... , their trash heaps are more important then any gold or jewelry found- except for maybe anything to do with language or DNA. Trash & trashpo IS a form of Archaeology!

[Lynn Radford]

Just saw that you posted the link to this blog on the group page... The highest form of D-Kultist praise from D-Kween of Trashpo! Thanks for spreading the word! :D

[Lynn Radford]

:D Thanks for the continued encouragement, DK!

[DKeys]

major score!~ Love the hunting story   Trashpo pioneer-hunter/trashgatherer Lynn!

[Lynn Radford]

TY! I AM a lucky girl! :D