3:00 snapshot #1126

One of my jobs is cleaning and (when necessary) reassembling animal shipping crates. These were particularly well-built cages for birds--the wire cage fits snugly in the wood crate with the help of four specially cut (and numbered) wood inserts. I should put a note of appreciation on these when we return them.

One man's trash?

Last weekend Alexis and I removed this barberry bush. It was quite a task--I cut the thorny branches off with a lopper, the thicker central stalks required a saw. Alexis dug around the rootball with a shovel and I levered them out as best as I could with a five foot iron bar. It took a couple hours on Saturday evening and a couple more on Sunday morning.

As we dug we kept finding man-made objects--sardine cans and bits of rusty sheet metal. The ones arranged on the picnic table in the picture above were our favorite treasures. The figurine of the man and lamb made in Occupied Japan was found in two pieces--there are probably more. The other things are a perfume bottle, a cigarette case, a toy pistol, and a church key.