Picked: Vintage Metal Windmill - Garden Obelisk - March 2022
I've been known to garbage pick. At the curb. Not in dumpsters and other what-have-yous. You know the move: people put stuff out on the curb on their garbage day (or very often...on Saturdays or Sundays when they've just done a clean-up project) and if someone doesn't grab whatever the thing is, it goes into the truck on pickup day. I posted about an organ late last year and when we lived back in Elmhurst, they had this wonderful, annual all-city-wide amnesty day. You could put anything you wanted on the curb and the garbage guys would take it; no stickers needed. That was always a fun hour of driving around seeing what people were tossing. Mostly, you find junk. And, this time, I think that's what I found: junk. It is metal. So, the most likely picker is one of those guys in the pickup trucks with wood boards that extend the height of the bed and have all sorts of metal objects tossed in there. I call them the "metal guys". They only focus on