Field Trip: Scavenger Hunt

I love the idea: the game of hunt and fetch

as much as the next gal-you know-

Ross, TJMax, Target etc.

And yes, we've done a little time selling at a 

flea market...

"no, sorry we DON"T have any guns 

or ammunition" (just discarded Anne Klein).

So, when my son asked me to go with him to a salvage yard

 when searching for parts to 

'make' a smoker (BBQ )....

I thought -"hell yeah".

However, I wasn't prepared for what I saw-

 and from what I hear now, this was child's play.

Have you ever been to one?

First of all, shoes required. First Clue.

It was like a permanent, hard core,  flea market without clothes--

 junk, junk parts, discards

scrap metal, close out purchases- of stuff-stuff.!

I loved the  ancient computer moniters- I left thinking

 "hmm, do they BUY those?"

There was an aisle or several, of discarded things "The Army" doesn't need...

I of course, was drawn to the rows of 'new'

 (where'd they get those?) garden equipment and stuff..

There was a shed the size of a football field full of -

screws, nuts, bolts - old, unused, stuff!.

Honestly, almost, everywhere I looked,

I saw something that sent up a flag warning:

you might need this= good price!

In the back was a dirt yard filled with 

huge, I don't know, landscaping, building scrap, trash bins,

and I kept thinking CUJO 

should be bounding out any minute...

 and I would bolt (to my Rendezvous)!
And yet....

Luckily, we were not eaten alive,

 the vibe- ( her clothes match?) friendly and 

we came away with what 'we' were looking for:

a huge (oil?) drum, L brackets, sheet metal,

and enough visual memories to bring us (me) 

back again..

On a similar but different note, I BEG OF YOU....

check out what my friends at
Yardsale Bloodbath have been up to
seriously, it'll make you own place feel like
Winsor Castle!

No regrets, ever.

XO