When my dad was digging the trench for our new drainage pipe, he just kept running into all sorts of things. Chunks of concrete, old bricks, rocks, plastic bags, trash, etc. This is the norm around here. You can’t stick a shovel down more than about six inches without hitting something.
So let’s have a little show and tell so you can see what we found this time.
First, like I said. Loads of broken concrete, rocks, etc. Enough to fill those three plastic flowerpots. I know it’s hard to judge the scale of things in photos, but I can barely lift any one of these plastic pots. I wrote “buckets” above, but they are 2.25 gallon flowerpots I’m re-purposing for rock storage.
And then there’s the more exciting stuff. The pretty stuff.
Pieces of a green ceramic bowl. It seems so strange to think that the course of action for a broken bowl would be to bury it on the side of the house, but I suppose it’s almost the same as what we do now. We just do it communily, with trucks and pick ups and a heck of a lot more garbage.
And a retro Pepsi cap in perfect condition. I thought this was old given the short ingredient list, but according to Wikipedia, this logo was in use from 1970 to 1997, so maybe it’s not all that old.
And since I’m on the subject of buried treasure, I’ll show you what else I dug up a week or two ago while transplanting some perennials. An old rotting timber! Exciting! My resident backyard woodpecker was so happy with me for digging this up.
I know it looks like it just shot up out of the ground, but it was horizontal underground and I lifted one end up 90 degrees. Elise is about three feet tall, and I think the fence is around six feet, so that gives you an idea of how big this thing was.
Want to see what else I’ve found in my backyard over the years? Of course you do! Click here!
