Saturday, October 10, 2009

ABUSED but REUSED: the story of three industrial seed pods rescued from a life of abuse and neglect

As far as I'm concerned,  there's not a better time to be had than spending a couple of hours at a junk yard with friends.   If you're lucky you may even walk away with some treasures tucked under your arm!   Awhile back, my friends, Sayaka and Momoko, asked me if I would like to join them on a trip to a little junk yard a few miles south of Bowling Green.  Of course I said YES, how could I pass up an offer to visit a new junk yard!  At first it wasn't much different than most of the junk yards I had been too, the old saying "if you've seen one you've seen them all" came to mind.   That is until I came across these neglected little gems strewn across the cold wet ground.   It was love at first sight, who knew junk could be so beautiful!  In this case, one man's trash was my treasure. 
The man at the junk yard informed us that they were grinders used for grinding rock and dirt.   When the little "finger nubs" wore down, or fell out, the heads were replaced with new ones.  He said we could have them for free if we wanted them, who was I to argue!  I quickly gathered them up in my arms and off we went.   It's amazing, and ironic actually, how organic and seed poddish they look seeing as how they were used to grind and crush rocks and plants and dare I say maybe even a stray seed pod unfortunate enough to have landed in their path.  Anyway, on the way home I mentioned how cool they would look if I placed marbles in the empty holes where the "nubs" had fallen out.   When I got home that's exactly what i did and sure enough they did look cool!                        

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