Junk & Treasure.

For the first time in 2-3 weeks I’m facing a five day working week.  Easter, Anzac Day plus the odd day off to make 4 day weekends has seen me cruise the last few weeks only being in the office 3-4 days.  Now its back to the grind I presume…

Spent Saturday cleaning out the shed and the house in general in preparation for the local Council Clean Up Day which is today.  Basically you dump all the crap on your front yard and the council takes it away.

We put out the kids old beds, plus some old BBQ hotplates, an old worn out kids bike, old door mats, a pile of broken kids toys, an old wading pool, an old kids indoor tent and assorted other junk.  This morning most of it is gone.  We were out the front late Saturday afternoon after delicately piling this heap together neatly on the median strip and some guy pulled up in his car started rummaging through it.  He took some timber we had out and with a nod he was off.  Weird.

Now the other strange thing is we have grown a bike!  Kate’s very old pink bike (it was second hand when we got it) is gone and in its place is a bright yellow BMX suitable for a 4yr old.  Seems as though someone needed a bike, took the yellow one, saw our pink one and took that instead and left the yellow one at our place…. again, weird.

This morning, Kates old bed is gone completely, but Brookes bed is gone, but the metal frame bed heads remain, the old TV is also gone I think and most of the timber.  I guess one mans junk is another mans treasure.  I hope the little girl somewhere enjoys the bike….