Shopping

Last week Number Two Son and I were sent to Yakima to do some serious shopping.  We had an exact list:

– Chain Harrow

– Bath tub

– Insulation & tacks

What we looked at:

Fabric

Baby Chicks

Sprayers

Cattle feeders

What we bought:

– Insulation & tacks

– a gallon of green paint

– 2 hot dogs at Cosco

…at least we came in under budget.

A lot of Farmers save everything, because they usually have the room to do so and because they never know when they might need it.  Every once in a while they might have a bit of a clean up.  Luckily for us, we were around when Our Friend the Farmer was doing a bit of Spring Cleaning from his… treasure trove.

Chain harrows most often come in 8 to 12 foot wide lengths of special iron chain stuff/pieces (technical farm term), which are then dragged around fields to break up the ground, as well as break up and spread around any manure/animal poop.  We didn’t need one that big, as I wanted one I could use on the bike.  My Loving Spouse saw part of an old one on Our Friend the Farmer’s trash pile and knew he could rig it to fit our needs.  So we went ‘shopping’ in the treasure trove, except you cannot really shop in someone’s treasure trove, because they are hanging on to their good stuff.  However, if you are there when they are having an extremely random Spring Cleaning, you could really be in luck.  Especially, if they are your friend and know what you ‘need’ and just happen to have it in their trove, which is how we ended up with a very fine bathtub for the attic as well as the bits for a small chain harrow.  As the guys co-ordinated the loading, Number Two Son and I were looking around the trove/now marked trash ready for removal.

and as luck would have it…
We found some really cool old iron farm tractor ‘packers’ (old farm term) that we (with My Loving Spouse’s help) envision turning into extremely cool end tables….which is why we now have the perfect size chain harrow for the bike, a bathtub in our yard and a pallet of iron bits not dissimilar from the junk yard art I fell for in January. ready for creativity…life is good…now about getting the heavy cast iron bathtub in the house and up the stairs and around the corner…