Day 2946 Well it looked like it was free.

8th September 2025

A drive to Hamilton was on the cards to collect a tall mid century style dresser. It was a pleasant journey into the unknown. The vast corn fields are soon to be harvested, but the scale of the fields are huge. The watering system resembles the skeleton of a dinosaur, a huge metal structure of tubes and jets tower over the crops, and the amount of water it delivers could easily wash the front and back of our house and include our truck.

On the way, we passed, what looked like a pine wardrobe laying on its back. Kelli almost wanted to stop and load it, but we needed to collect the dresser first. We made a note of the road, and drove on to our destination. The dresser was outside waiting for us, it seemed a decent piece, so in the back of the truck it went, now we headed back to inspect the piece by the roadside.

Cautiously we approached the place, there lying on its back  was a wardrobe with a smashed door. What was odd there were two long threaded rods extending through the floor, and a metal box with a slot attached to the inside of a panel. I think it was Kelli that realised that this was a display cabinet that the place set out for its home grown vegetables, that had blown over, quickly we scarpered from the scene.

I have often thought that one day we will take something that we believed was for free, and it’s not.

I managed to buy timber for the drawer boxes that I have to make, and Kelli wanted to paint the headboards that we collected on Saturday, we achieved both as well as our weekly shopping expedition.