This has been waiting for me for the past week or maybe a little more. I needed to clean out the rest of the junk in the coop so we can tear it down to make way for a new one. Uhm, yeah. Every morning I take the dogs out for their walk to the back forty and I walk by this. When I went out this morning I decided today was the day. I walked closer to check out what I was really in for, bracing myself for the ugliness that was years and years in the making. This is what I saw.
Stacks of old doors, shutters and broken windows.
Walls with holes to the outdoors, random gaskets hanging on nails.
Rusted, broken sleds and bailing twine.
Baskets without bottoms and plants growing through the floor.
The morning light was beautiful streaming through the gaping holes in the walls and through the non-existent doors and windows. There’s a lot of life that was thrown in here through the years and I just had to take one more moment to record what was left before I filled the trailer. I’m glad I did, there is beauty in everything, you just have to look. Little gifts.
Fort Pelham Farm 
Oh wow, I have that same sled, and that basket. I am trying to think of where they are stored. I keep promising myself that I am going to fix up the sled just enough to hang it as a decoration and the basket is something I used to use in the garden, but mine does have a bottom, so crazy to find all those wonderful memories of someone.
There are actually 3 sleds out there and I’m sure repair was on someone’s mind at some point.
What a sweet shed!! There is beauty in everything! Perhaps you can recycle/reuse some of the artifacts??? Incorporate a piece of wood/door(?) in the new building?
I did salvage a few things. There’s probably enough stuff around to build another coop without going to the lumber yard. Might look a little wonky though 🙂
That’s great! Besides, wonky is good. Lumber is so expensive!! We de-constructed our kids play fort years ago and constructed sheep shed and goat house! 🙂
I just read a lot of your blog and really enjoyed reading it. Theweavingman
Thankyou so much. It’s nice to see your name.