NFR Cool finds in your backyard...

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Quick & vicious little rascals. If they weighed 50# I wouldn't set foot in the woods. I had one in winter finery climb up on my Mickey Mouse boot, stand-up, and look me in the eye as if to say : "Get out of my territory!"
 
Jim F. said:
Quick & vicious little rascals. If they weighed 50# I wouldn't set foot in the woods. I had one in winter finery climb up on my Mickey Mouse boot, stand-up, and look me in the eye as if to say : "Get out of my territory!"
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Ya the couple of salmon in my backyard have been absent the last couple of days.
 
Reviving this old thread. Just had my backyard graded which is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I’ve found a few old artifacts while digging raised beds back there and I’m certain there used to be an outhouse at one point in time (house is circa 1905). Outhouses were commonly used as bottle and dish dumps back in the day. Well long story short, while grading the yard we found a handful of intact bottles and an old horseshoe.
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Here are a few of the best bottles all cleaned up. My favorite is the center bottle from Lien’s Pharmacy of Tacoma. The location of this pharmacy is now a public library. I’m looking forward to visiting the local historical society to see if they have any info on that business.
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Somebody dump a big bag full of brand new girls coats over my fence, they are between the ages of 8 to 14? So now my granddaughter gets a new coat every Christmas for the next 4 years.
 
Beautiful bottles. I've done my share of bottle hunting. Old latrines were typically located at the corners of a property. If you see a concentration of glass in one area you might want to dig down a little more. Long ago my buddy found a site in the center of downtown San Diego. We pulled an immense amount of "artifacts" out of that site. Drug bottles, ceramics, even a piece of jewelry. Most have very little monetary value, but the history and the beauty makes it fun, especially when you are cleaning them up. I'd sure like to metal detect that dirt. BTW, you can accurately date those bottles. Cork tops, blob tops, the length of the seem are all good clues. And doing historical research from the markings is also fun. In California, in the 1800s, the Whalers would drink beer offshore from hand blown bottles. I once found one in perfect condition in 60 ft of water.
 
About 10 years ago, our friend and neighbor Bill died of a massive heart attack while mountain biking. He grew up next door and his family used to own our property. He'd tell us stories about growing up here, including that he and his friends would run through the woods shooting marbles at each other with slingshots. Last week I found a marble while doing restoration work near the stream that separates our properties. It's the 2nd marble I've found in 20 years. We miss him.
 
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