Yesterday was decidedly spring-like, so I got out to do some spring cleaning in the old barn. The stated goal was to scoop out the poop that was in the loft. Once I had my cleaning goggles on, though, I found plenty of stuff to clean up. Being an old barn, I found lots of interesting stuff.

• A tent. It may be fine. It looked like it just had a hole in the bag.
• A mess kit. It didn’t look very rusty on the outside.
• A paper cup from Noble Romans. It had degraded to something much more like a cloth cup.
• A roll of tar paper, like for roofing.
• A pile of white powder that I think is cement mix.
• A wedge, like for splitting wood.
• A bunch of random pieces of metal. Some were 1/8″ or 1/4″ thick, and looked like they’d come off of a tractor. One was the metal part of some hand cultivator. There was metal mesh, metal wire.
• Doors. Lots of doors. Screen doors. Interior doors. Exterior doors.
• A bathroom vanity.
• An (apparently) unused (and never fully assembled, and still in its original box) shop light.
• Scraps of lumber, including fragments of landscaping timbers, a pallet, an old livestock crate, some support beams, a shelf (still with brackets).
• A fireplace broom. It matches a poker I’d found back when we moved in. I almost have a complete set now!
• A used 4-cylinder head gasket.
• A 9 inch section of gutter, with an S-shaped piece of downspout.
• A weird ceramic thing. Someday, there will be pictures, if we don’t throw it out first.
• An ugly old lawn chair. The kind with a metal frame and a plastic weave.
• A pad for a chair. I think. It was shaped like and about the size of something you’d put between yourself and a chair. But it also resembled a sock in that it had two layers, and an opening where it stopped going up the back of the chair.
• A pad for a deck chair.
• A hand tool, or a portion thereof. It has a wood handle, and some metal stuff on one end. It looks like there’s a spring in there. And there’s a piece of twine wrapped around it. Was it a flail? Was it a baler?
• A lever, like for opening the trunk of the car from the front seat, with the cable attached.
• A metal funnel.
• An tub for catching automotive oil.
• An empty antifreeze bottle and an empty windshield washer bottle.
• Lots of pieces of rubber tubing, some small, some large.
• A 10 foot piece of 2″ or 3″ PVC pipe.
• A bunch of twine tied to one of the rafters.
• A large plastic barrel.
• Some large plastic paint buckets.
• An empty cool-whip container.