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For the past week or so I have noticed a boat trailer parked by the side of the road that we take when we go to Alex Bay. Friday I noticed there was a car in the driveway and so we stopped to ask about the trailer.<\/p>\n
We have a 1951 Feathercraft deluxe runabout which has a trailer but we also have a 1961 Lyman and a 57 Chris Craft Continental and they do not have trailers. So we are more or less looking for trailers.
\nWhen we pulled into the driveway we were greeted by a young lady, the lady of the house as it were. She was stepping out of a travel trailer and went over to turn off the generator that was situated near the travel trailer.<\/p>\n
It turns out the young couple recently bought the house and land at a tax auction and they were living in the travel trailer with their 2 young boys and a German Shepherd dog.<\/p>\n
Anyway she said the trailer was $30.00 but for an extra $10.00 they would throw in a boat motor. We looked at the boat trailer and sadly it was in such poor shape that I would not have taken $30.00 to remove it from the side of the road. But I was intrigued by the motor.<\/p>\n
The young lady led us into the back lot where the boat motor was stored in the middle of a field. It turned out to be an old 16 hp Oliver out board and it was complete. I figured the prop was worth $10.00 so I agreed to the price.<\/p>\n
On the way back to the car we passed a pile of rubble with what appeared to be some pipe protruding from the sides. They looked like greenhouse hoops. Hey, I said, those look like greenhouse hoops. Yeah she said, with out much emotion, my husband cleared off the land and there was a greenhouse but we could not get anyone to come and take it down so he knocked it down with a bobcat and we are going to have the fire department burn everything.<\/p>\n
After looking at the pile we determined we could salvage at least 5 of the hoops and offered him $50.00. Long story short, well too late for that, but after spending about 4 hours sawing, digging, prying, sweating, cursing and getting rained on we had the hoops home. That would give us enough material for a 30 foot tunnel for baskets next spring.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s too bad though, because if he had advertised the thing for sale he could have sold it for and easy $500.00. Not to mention the benches, and multitude of pots, flats, trays and the like buried together with tires, trees and tons of sod.<\/p>\n
By the way we are posting the progress of a swallow tail butterfly caterpillar we found on some fern leaf dill. Seems they like it and there we 2 but by the time I got out to get them one was gone. I will post photos each day until the butterfly emerges. This is the first photo.
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