Trash pile Beauty

Found some beauty in the midst of my trash pile.

Yard: treasure or trash

Cleaning up the yard is always an amazing experience. This time I found two treasures.
1, a table with a drawer.

2, a bathtub

The table I can scrape, clean and paint. It will be great for work or outdoor fun.
The bathtub….. well that’s a bit more of a challenge. On the other hand outdoor moonlight bathing is very popular here.
Still…either way  great yard finds.

Really?

In the middle of the night the heat switched off. Too cold and dark to do anything so I snuggled under the blankets until sunrise.
I’m not a big fan of electricity having been struck by lightening and a second time standing in water as electric current ran through it and me.
So here I am flipping switches to no avail. I walk around the place until i find another box at a right angle so it is impossible to see inside and caged up behind chicken wire and mesh. I rip that apart and see a switch. Can’t tell what it might control but I flip it on and off a few times.
Returning inside I mess with the circuit breaker some more. Finally get power and start the mini Mr. coffee. Power goes off. Walk outside to the power pole and look at it for awhile. Definitely NOT going to pull that handel!
Repeat earlier actions off on on off walk away and repeat. Something seems to have worked and a light bulb stays on for a few minutes.
Off the DMV to exchange my license and tags. A 30 mile drive easy road. Only to find out i forgot to bring my passport drive back get passport but can’t find title. Drive 40 miles in the other direction to the “big city” thinking they might be able to communicate via internet about the title. No luck. The photobooth is broken so no license pictures can be taken and no I must get the title.
Back the 40 plus 10 to the library to use a computer to print a form. It will be $35 for the title and $9 to process.
Well, at least I accomplished something I got a form and books to read.
Back at the house i figure I really need to accomplish something today. So I fill the bed of the truck with some of the trash the previous owner left me. I drive to the dump or refuse recycling service, only to find the gate being locked. It is 3:05 of course it closes at 3 pm. He smiled and told me to come back at 7:30 am. So i drive back home with a truck full of trash.
I am beginning to worry about the broken mirror. Do you think it has anything to do with today?

Random Beauty

Sometimes you just find bits of beauty hiding in the wood pile. Discarded yet still stunning.