Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
I had to abandon this dig-site months ago due to swarms of mosquitoes and dense brush.Now that the weather has cooled off and the plants have died down, I decided to go digging a few days ago after my second class which was very short due to what are basically midterms but kind of not.
So I'm running around, climbing up the hills and going down, finding a few spots where crap was dumped and finding shard after shard. A broken Paul's Drinks dated to 1953, an intact handle to a broken pitcher (Who'd have thought,) broken milks, intact jar-lids with inserts, an intact cup, and many broken plates with fancy, soft floral designs. Suddenly, I spot a brick.Currently, I can read "OAK HIL" on it. I also dug an interesting handle to maybe a drawer?
^One cap is Ball, one is Boyd's. I see their inserts a lot. ^ Not sure what the white rectangle piece was, but it's glass. I head back to where I had pulled a few good pavers out before: The ruins of a building surrounded by trees, with some shooting up from within it. Outside of the small stretch of forest bordering this area, a whitish hangar-shaped building used now for storage. Scattered around in the woods, dozens of pavers. Trapped in brush, pavers. Under cement slabs, pavers-- essentially, many pavers, but most broken up or cut.
I found a Tab bottle-- ACL condition is great, but the neck is missing. []Inside of cement slabs, embossed bottles. [>:]Broken up on the cement, more bottles. Only intact ones being slicks. [:'(] Crawling under a cement slab that overhung things, I spot pavers-- wouldn't have guessed-- and was trying to dislodge them all from both the cement hanging over me, more chunks, and dirt covering them.20th Century, Buckeye, Athens, Metropolitan, Bolens. Many pavers.
Clearing what I wanted for the day, I pilled them up near some old cans and move onto the exterior of the building where-- of course-- exist more pavers. Poking around, I suddenly turn up this glass ornament, and I stand amazed that it was still intact.Most of the paint is missing, and most of the top is too rusty to read, but hey: I'll take it. []
Digging turned up little, but in the end I made 3 piles of stuff to put in the vehicle and drive home with-- mostly, of course, pavers. BUT, as I was coming back from my second trip to load up the stuff, I suddenly swear-- and I'm not one who normally swears. "____, the ____ just stung me?" Something was in my shirt, stinging my back. LOL. So I yank off my jacket and start trying to get whatever was in there out of my button-up shirt as I leapt over the brush and into the woods at a run. Whatever it was, it stung a lot, and it still itches and is swollen, but as usual: I'm fine. I came back home with a few cans I had taken from there when disaster struck: An armful of pavers at home as I unload them, I see one slide off and fall where? Well, naught but onto this Pepsi can:
What was totally round and intact now has a hole and is partially crushed.I brought back another can because of its unique-looking seam. The tops are aluminium, but the bottoms are the same as the sides. When are they from?
Top to one. Other. Am wondering if Oxalic Acid would work to clean rust? If so, how much? I want to know what they look like under all of this.