Miss Lydia
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Dynamite might be your best course of action. 
Restoring/rescuing a 100+ year old shed. Am I nuts?
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milkmansdaughter
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Sumi, I'm with you. There's no way I'd be able to NOT be in there digging things out! I wouldn't be able to just turn my back, and the harder it got, the more it would nag at me.
I might not get my house dusted very often, but a project like you're working on would definitely hold my interest.
I'm also thinking that through this, you are teaching your son some very valuable lessons about being hard working, industrious, and determined. I love that you're doing this where you live now. Doing it on your own property is one thing, but doing it at a rental shows a lot of character! No matter how much work there is, youre rising to the challenge. I salute you!
I might not get my house dusted very often, but a project like you're working on would definitely hold my interest.
I'm also thinking that through this, you are teaching your son some very valuable lessons about being hard working, industrious, and determined. I love that you're doing this where you live now. Doing it on your own property is one thing, but doing it at a rental shows a lot of character! No matter how much work there is, youre rising to the challenge. I salute you!
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sumi
Rest in Peace 1980-2020
I got the mess of fence wire out!!!! 
It took me about 2 hours to cut, dig, cut tree roots holding it, dig out some more, carry a few buckets of soil and compost to the compost heap to get it out of my way, yank and yank and yank and finally…. IT'S OUT! It's an amazing feeling 
I took a pic before but it didn't come out well, you can see some of it here as well (behind the tree):
https://www.sufficientself.com/attachments/img_20180410_151200-jpg.6958/
This morning:
And now:
It took me about 2 hours to cut, dig, cut tree roots holding it, dig out some more, carry a few buckets of soil and compost to the compost heap to get it out of my way, yank and yank and yank and finally…. IT'S OUT! It's an amazing feeling I took a pic before but it didn't come out well, you can see some of it here as well (behind the tree):https://www.sufficientself.com/attachments/img_20180410_151200-jpg.6958/
This morning:
And now:
milkmansdaughter
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Wow! Great job, Sumi!
We just did that this spring on our back property line. There were many many glass bottles (wild turkey mostly), broken plastic planters, rusted barbed wire, fence line, one clothesline pole, cement, old hose, all kinds of junk... And it was all tangled up in vines and brush and old fencing. It feels sooo good to clean stuff like that up! I'm really enjoying this thread!
We just did that this spring on our back property line. There were many many glass bottles (wild turkey mostly), broken plastic planters, rusted barbed wire, fence line, one clothesline pole, cement, old hose, all kinds of junk... And it was all tangled up in vines and brush and old fencing. It feels sooo good to clean stuff like that up! I'm really enjoying this thread!
Britesea
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We've been cleaning up around our back line so we can put in the fence we are working one. Found a big roll of fencing in the middle of a clump of wild roses. It's still useable so... SCORE
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sumi
Rest in Peace 1980-2020
I cleaned house, did laundry, did some work online and spent an hour looking at 100's of pics of Wedgwood pieces. I can't find anything with that pattern, never mind the actual dish. I gave up and joined a FB group for antique identification and valuing and posted some pics there. Hopefully someone in the group will recognise it and be able to give me some info...
CrealCritter
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I do - they are cool! The corktop ones are the ones I like. Hang on to that one - it's very cool and unique shaped.
Old hand blown corktop soda bottle.
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sumi
Rest in Peace 1980-2020
I dug all this out… about 1.5 to 2 feet down, across to the doorway on the left and over to and including the grey metal bucket below. By hand. Too much bottles and other stuff to use the spade in there. I use the yellow bucket to gather compost into, which I cart off to the heap. I took a few loads out today…
