What is that JUNK? On the potting bench

 This is my potting bench. My handy husband Joe made me 4 years ago out of scrap pallet wood. Love it, oh, and him too!  Over the years, I have covered the top of it with various objects d' art... well, at least they are art according to me. "What the heck is all that JUNK," you might ask?

Well....

 This is "Mr. Happy" and "Mr. Grumpy". I know that Mr. Happy was once the bracket that held together some old saw horses, because I have 4 of them and personally took part in the dismantling and subsequent kidnapping of them. Mr. Grumpy, however, came from the woods. In a pile of old rusty things, he was looking up at me. His blue teeth all bared. I just had to bring him home. I have no idea what he originally was. Any ideas??

The lower portion of my potting bench is more practical, old shovel, sprinkler, handleless rake, old bottles... all the usual stuff... roller skate, bird nest. It does work well for potting plants, the dirt just falls between the wood slats to the plastic bin of soil below.

"Wait... roller skate?"

Yep, this old roller skate use to be mine as a child, it hung on my Dad's garage wall for years.

This huge fan was once part of a car, I think. I found it in the woods too. The things you find while huckleberry picking in Idaho are astounding, really. This Folgers Coffee can was with it. Treasure to me, trash to others. (Huge push for recycling here, this can is at least 30 years old and you can still read it. NOT biodegradable.Tin is recyclable. OK, off my soap box....)

 Last summer a robin made this lovely nest in our carport. She didn't come back this year so I moved the nest here. Talk about ART!

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