Robby Raccoon
Trash Digger
Recall this post on my first dug Christmas Ornament? Well, today I went digging to relieve stress, and I ended up slashing my finger open when removing cinder-blocks from the pit that is a building's remains-- stuck my hand in and dragged it with the brick along broken glass under it. Whoops. So I began wiping the blood on anything available as I had no bandages. I used leaves, trees, bricks, and eventually gave up as it continued to get all over broken glass, dirt, blocks, etc. Great Halloween theme for the area-- bloody walls and trees as I continued to dig for another hour. Got it on my car, too. My clothes sufficed well enough, albeit I was wearing my good jeans. Currently, I'm again bleeding as it just escaped the bandages and went onto my keyboard. My parent just told me, before I could finish this post, that she thinks I should get stitches. Such a small wound bleeds so much. LOL.
Before I left, I also thought I was gonna get caught. There are no signs other than a For Sale sign that lays at the edge of the woods, so I would assume that I couldn't really get in trouble... But when you hear what sounds like a Police Scanner right at the top of the hill, and it doesn't sound like it's driving by on the road up there.... You kind of freeze and look. After about a minute, I walked into the open to check it out. No one was around, but I had heard two sentences on it before it went silent. So, I piled some of my finds at the edge of the woods that overlooks the road, opposite side of where I parked. And then I went back to digging.
Christmas light? Ornament? ^But before I left, I was trying to date the site.We've used cinder-blocks too long to be able to put much of a cap on the site's expected age, and it's filled with pavers that are likely re-used as these are TOC pieces in a place turning up bottles from the '40s on as well as the shard to one sand-pontiled bottle that was likely foreign (I believe that there was a road-house or beer-hall there due to shattered beer steins, plates, bowls, shot-glasses, etc.) So... nothing is being helpful in determining the age of the site, and not much will other than the thickness of the trees filling it. BUT, if someone can put a date on the cans, then I think that we will know when the building was demolished (it would be not long before some of these, I'd assume) as some were under cinder-blocks, most of these in a corner protected from hard debris.
Very wide mouth. Ideas on age? ^It seems painted on, not baked on like an ACL. It's so weird but was somehow intact amongst rubble.
Presto knife-open insert?
Can 1. When did this style leave production? ^
Can 2, Pat Pend. When did this style begin-- it's Pre-patent. ^Can 3.Anyone think there may be paint under the rust, still? I'd like to know the brands if possible to clean up. Trimble and Bolen's pavers.20th Century and maybe an Athen's Block variant I've not seen.
