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 is working on a device that is like a metal detector, only for trash. Of course it would have to be programmed to the individual's taste of what they perceive as 'good' trash.  Nancy, every time I pass something rusty, I resist the urge to pick it up and send to you!

[Lynn Radford]

Will do, DV! :D If I keep at it with a teaspoon, this place will keep me busy for the rest of my life!

[De Villo Sloan]

Cool Lynn, just stay clear of Three Mile Island.

[Lynn Radford]

Oh, Nancy! Someone with whom I can share the techno-frustration! :D Sounds like we have a great deal in common... I love ephemera, paper (old and new), fabric and trims, vintage typewriters, old print blocks, anything old really... And I'm with you... If it's got a hidden past... I love it! My imagination runs wild, making up the bits I don't know... I guess that's the writer in me. :D

P.S. There's nothing saying you can't break a bottle! :D 

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Ha, Lynn, sure, you'll get many takers on assisting you with a phenomenal website. It's especially scary that you have great ideas for it. That means it'll be hopelessly complicated. I would help but you'd end up with a minus-website. Tech often tempts me to heave the hardware out a window. It's a necessary FRUSTRATION half the time! And that's on a good day, eh?

Yah, no bones down there, which would have been a good find for someone. I love broken bottles, but the ones he found were all intact, isn't that sad? Old paper, tins, cans, any paper in the street, eyeglasses run over by many cars, windows, doors, signs...aw you name it, I probably love it if it's decrepit and has a history that I usually can't begin to know. And you?

[Lynn Radford]

DK, did you miss the technologically impaired sign? I'd be teaching my techniques online via videos and have a website w/ blog if only I were adept... I don't even know how to use the video feature on my Nikon D-40! Let alone upload and post! LOL

Incidentally, if anyone wants to assist me in building a phenomenal, stand out website and blog... I have great ideas and no way to implement them....

Nancy, that is soooo cool! Good thing he found bottles and not bones! :D So... I'm getting a bigger picture... Rust and bottles! What else floats your boat?

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Oo, bottles, love 'em, any kind. My husband found a ton of old medicine bottles when he dug two feet of dirt/sand out of the cellar "floor" so he could stand up down there. They're over a hundred years old, it was thrilling.

[DKeys]

We need a video Lynn!!!

[Lynn Radford]

DK, I think you're onto something there...

[Lynn Radford]

LOL! Angie, thank Snooky for the Pointer! I think you forgot to mention Dalmations!

I have found a fair share of bottles intact, as well. Lots of Heinz products, and perm/color bottles... We live in the Pittsburgh area, that explains Heinz. Naomi, the wife of the owner, had a salon in the basement, explaining the latter.

Our Memorial Garden, (or as Stephen King would call it, Pet Sematary) sits just below an unfinish trash hole. I wish it weren't so overgrown with weeds, or I'd show you...

Ah, but maybe...

YES! The vault is secure! There she lies in all her glory, as photographed two years ago spring! (2010) I have since wanted to use the big rusted thingy in my rust dying, but never had the energy to dig through the weeds for it! Come to think of it, the vintage Coldspot ice cube tray thingy would make for a great divider in an assemblage piece! Maybe I'll have to brave the weeds and the poison ivy for a Trashaeology dig! Can I take anyone else along for the ride?