A friend of mine recently came home from the grocery store to find her husband had hauled the shell of boat onto their driveway. He had been given it for free from a neighbor who was about to scrap it and was just pleased for someone to take it away. It had some holes. It had 3 layers of old paint, all flaking. The benches were rotten, and the motor was dead. My friend did not look thrilled (her teenage daughter was horrified - sure, she wanted to invite her friends to come hang out on her boat, but this was far from what she had in mind). But my friend’s husband saw a project. He gave each kid a paint scraper and safely goggles, and a while his wife unloaded groceries from the car, they delved into discussing paint colors and boat names. Paint flakes chipped away. Rotten wood was ripped out. A plan was emerging for making it water-tight. One man’s junk had become another man’s gem. 

I don’t know why you might have a junk car sitting on your driveway or in your garage. How old or broken things get places isn’t something we can cover in a quick blog. Maybe, like us, you bought a place with some land and your kids discovered an abandoned tractor behind some trees. It’s kind of weird and I have zero idea on the story behind it being left where it is, but it actually looks pretty cool, especially when it snows, and I’m learning to think of it as ‘Land Sculpture’ - it just sounds so much better than ‘Abandoned Junk in the Yard.’
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