Before we bought the land we now own, I was walking around the place, and out of the corner of my eye, saw what I thought was a body laying in the woods.
Turned out to be a large balloon from a business in a nearby town that had a bunch of very large helium filled, heavy duty balloons, floating around the front of the business. The balloon "escaped" but what was odd, was that the prevailing winds are normally in the opposite direction to our place. The balloon just happened to get loose when the wind was blowing in our direction.
There is a church near us and we find balloons from parties from time to time. Usually it is just one of the mylar balloons that sometimes the get hung up in trees,
and sometimes we will see them flying away to land somewhere else. The other evening, I took the dog outside, he froze on the porch, focused on something, his hair went up and he start barking.
There was a cluster of balloons sitting right next to the path to the side of the porch. I called it Balloon Man. Balloon Man scared the scat out of the dog, and now, weeks later, he cautiously exits the door to the porch, carefully sniffs and looks around before going out the door.
What a woose.
Another find was the remains of a still. There is a wet area on our place, that was likely a decent stream before a road was built on the place and cut off water flow, and down in that low area, was a bit of a spring. Next to the spring was a built up place for a still and they moon shiners had etched out a itty, bitty channel for run off. There was the top of an old kerosene can and the top of an old clay jug. If you watch Andy Griffith, and see an episode with The Darlings, the jug they show is what the jug looks like. After we closed on the land, I went and got the top of the clay jug.
Next to the still site, in the stream bed, was an old horse shoe. Figured the shoe was from a horse, or more likely a mule, that was carrying stuff to and from the still. Just left the shoe where it was for someone else to find one day.....
One day was about 10 years later when the kids found the shoe and brought it back to the house.
I need to take that shoe and put it back where they found it. The shoe is in pretty bad shape though. Not sure what to do with it.
Later,
Dan
