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.
