Yard Crap

The past couple of weeks, we've been working on the backyard. It's a first for us, and we've been here almost 5 years. We have a pile of crap waiting for bulk pick-up, which will pick up our crap, in a couple of weeks; we picked up mounds of trash, which resulted in our finding a flower bed. So, this morning, we planted flowers in the flower bed, once trash dump.

I found other cool things, but accidentally broke the coolest one, and so after deciding that it wouldn't make or break my future (documenting the coolest item found in backyard), I bravely decided to march on and document a few remaining treasures, big foots and albatrosses aside...

These 4 multicolored bb's are just a small sampling of the hundreds we've come across. I'm no archaeologist, but I'm pretty sure my backyard has seen at least one, epic BB gun showdown!

My two year old knows better than to eat them...so far, but it will be a momentous and probably sad day when there are no more to be found...Because finding them has become part tradition, part clean-up. Once, they've all been removed, like the little annoying, treasure-trash they are, new traditions will have to be forged. But I'm up to the challenge.

I think the year on the penny is 2002, although it looks pre-Civil War. At first I thought I hit the
jackpot with it because it looked like Lincoln's head was upside down, in relation to the tails side...but it was a false alarm. I'm only a cent richer.  I dropped it down the disposal trying to clean it, so the  date is technically still unverifiable.  My husband just told me that it's in the sewer now. So, if anyone finds it, check the date and get back with me...or just keep it. You're welcome.