Hauling Junk

The first think we did was haul trash to the dump.  As the trailer was being rented prior to our buying it, the tenants left a lot of junk laying around EVERYWHERE!  We must have thrown away 3 or 4 avocado green toilets, some were in pieces.  We hauled off an old van seat, baskets, loose scrap paper, old tires, old wood, wire, cable, metal, old clothes, old paint (which had to dry up first) and glass.  The biggest item we threw away was a lovely PINK metal garage door.  We haven't figured that one out yet.  But you name it, we threw it away!  There was only one thing of value that we kept - an old brass pot.  There was a 50 gallon drum full of used motor oil.  We had to have a company come out and siphon the oil out of the barrel so we could throw the barrel away.  There were so many broken light bulbs and sharp pieces of metal on the ground, we thought we would never get it all up.

In between cutting down trees and hauling off junk, we tore down the little shed/barn.  We removed the wood siding and tin roof then tied a cable to the structure and pulled it down with our 4-wheeler.  We burned the siding and salvaged the tin roof (which will become the backsplash in my new kitchen).  We then tore down the old potting shed which must have been lovely in its day; however, over the years it had been added on to with scraps of this and scraps of that.  It took a couple of weeks to get it dismantled so we could pull it down with the tractor.