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WAGON WHEEL DISPLAY

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Thursday, 12th August 2010

  Im really going over bourd tonight "but im so excited at whats happend today i thought i must tell you,
  
  last week we talked about idea's for the remaining tree trunks being left in the garden and many ideas came flooding in,
  well today ive not been doing any gardening due to sorting out the old stable (dust in everywere)
  
  and as the day came to an end, i got a visit from a friend who ask if i could use two very old wagon wheels?
  
  Well ive seen them and they need the wood taken back to the wood "all the old paint removed" and re-painting in bright colours and then mounting in the garden or in front of the house with 3 troughs full of geraniums, ie one at the top middle and one each side approx in the centre left & right and a trough on the ground at the bottom of the wheel.
  
  I feel it really will be a nice country display to welcome all callers.
  
  It's going tobe my winter project (as a norm i make bird nest box & troughs) so in the spring these two wheels should be ready for a long lifetimes worth of display.
  
  What a smashing day it's turned out to be.

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Friday, 13th August 2010

  Hi punpun. Your message reminded me of what my uncle did. We had a couple of old grain wagons on the farm and dad was happy to give one to my uncle when he asked for one. I wasn't happy, they were hidden in trees and I used them as forts. Anyway he took it back to his farm about 10 miles away. Looked funny, he hitched it to his pickup and pulled it home by the back roads. A couple weeks latter we were driving down the Queen Elizabeth Highway going past my uncles place and there were the wagon wheels, painted red to match his sheep barn. We went in and discovered he had taken the box all apart and used the wood to make livestock racks for his pickup. That was over 30 years ago. It's nice to see that my cousin has kept the wheels looking just as my uncle had. A very attractive welcome to the farm.

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Friday, 13th August 2010

  Hi John,
  It's strange really to think the way some things kick the memoury box into motion,
  
  As a child we lived in the back streets of Liverpool and the play things we're any thing we could find and old wheels did the job of play things very well, "Hence" when these two wheels we're on offer my past childhood memoury reminded me of the horse drawn cart the rag and bone man had and his horse "silver" it was jet black but to us kids it was "silver" (it was the only name of a horse we'd ever heard of) Hi ho silver.
  
  I can see that horse now with his head in the sack bag eating something that was good and shortly after he'd finished he'd leave fresh manure in a heap and the strange bit was that an old man would lift this manure!
  
  We had no gardens or any greenery for miles and miles so christ only knows why he lifted this manure??
  
  Ahh times gone by when kids were kids and to young to know anything about hate or war.

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  Posted by nooj (U13729031) on Saturday, 14th August 2010

  Am I right in thinking you can use manure to burn when it is dry ?
  Don't some people in Africa burn dung bricks?
  Either that or he had a secret garden.../

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