Another mystery

/ Re-Farmer

My older daughter and I went for a walk, and decided to head through the pasture, towards the plowed field.

This was the route I took to check how much I could see of the fire from the night before, and I’m surprised I missed this. I may have been distracted by seeing a bald eagle fly off. It was the first time I’ve seen one this close to the house and outbuildings!

Yeah. That’ll be my excuse for not seeing this.

This, lying in open pasture.

It looks like an oil drum converted into a furnace.

Like so many things we find, we are left with questions.

Converting oil drums into various things isn’t all that unusual. The unusual thing, as so often is the case, is the location.

Why is this here?

I can’t even say it has something to do with the junk pile that’s out this way. This pile, I know my late brother had dumped there, because I recognize the concrete filled oil drum. This was stuff he’d cleared away from the property my parents used to own. That was where we’d lived the last time we lived in this province. The building he’d converted to a workshop and is now being used for storage had been brought from there.

But this was not from there. It’s also quite far from the junk pile, so it’s not like a cow had somehow managed to drag it out (like so many other things we find, scattered about), even if a cow could somehow roll this around.

Yet another mystery!

After checking this out, we went to the junk pile, which my daughter had not yet seen. While poking around she found a few more things for our “found object art display”, where the crushed teapot now rests. Three mugs and two worn Old Spice bottles. :-D There’s also a toilet, which I intend to salvage and use with the others we’ve found, as a planter or something. The weird thing is, the toilet looks to be in excellent shape. No idea why it’s there, either, but at least with that, I hadn’t walked past it several times since we’ve moved here, and somehow not seen it.

Like the oil drum furnace that’s been sitting there long enough to have lichen growing on it! :-D

The Re-Farmer

10 thoughts on “Another mystery”

    • Possible. Which still leaves the question of why it’s in a pasture now! :-D

      My late brother converted a large propane tank into a wood burning stove to heat his workshop. He affectionately called it “the pig” because, mounted on it’s side with legs and the top converted to the door, it really does look like a pig! One of our goals it to turn that building back into a workshop, and hook the pig back up again. :-D

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      • Lol! There actually are several places where my brother’s held bonfire parties! No sheriff’s to hide from. They were all closer to the house, and in full view of the road.

        Gosh. I remember going to these with my brothers as a kid. Crazy times! 😄😄

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    • Lol! Might get a bit cold in winter. And hot in summer! 😄😄

      That reminds me. While walking with my daughter’s a couple of nights back, we were startled to see Nutmeg in the window of one of the cars near the storage building. These ones are still intact. We hadn’t realized one of the windows was open a bit. Just enough for a cat to fit through, and this one was enjoying some passive solar heat in the back window of the car! I think we found one of their hiding places. :-)

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