Have you ever woken up one day and thought to yourself, “I want to discover something new today!” I don’t know what it is, but every once in a while I get this thirst for a good adventure or mystery. One day last week I woke up with this feeling mildly stirring in my head, so before I even ate breakfast I put on some old clothes and got together some essentials for exploring. Now there isn’t really a whole lot to explore near where I live, but we do own a portion of a small forest and sometimes I hike through it looking for new streams and such. One time I found a large junk pile, but I never thought much of it because it looked like mostly tires and broken boards. But I vaguely remembered there being several miscellaneous piles of older-looking junk, some bottles and fencing mixed in with Lord-only-knows what. So, last week, I went to investigate. And to be honest, I have this project garden that I’ve been working on and I was kind of hoping to find some interesting objects to use as planters or trellises for some of my flowers.
So, I put on my boots and found my way through the early spring mud to the old junk pile. I was rather delighted to discover that there were several old bottles still fully intact lying about in between trees and fencing and scraps of metal. You see, in my family on my dad’s side we have quite the reputation for being junk collectors. My grandparents and 2 uncles are avid “antiquers.” My parents are not, but I think a little bit of the love for antiques runs through my blood. I love a good mystery, and I love history, so discovering those old bottles was like finding a piece of the past that someone had abandoned, and I wanted to know why! I picked out a few and cleaned them up, photographed them, and began searching on Google for “clues.”
I didn’t find out a whole lot, most of the bottles are from the WWII era from what I can tell. It doesn’t look like I found a real “treasure” but they are in fairly good shape and might make interesting decorations somewhere. I chose a few and have them hanging from a low branch on a tree in my garden, which sounds rather weird, but it actually looks kind of cool and goes well with the rest of my garden!
Here’s a few pictures of my finds for you…maybe you will know more about them than me :-)
