Sometimes things don't go as planned.

     As the title implies, things did not go as planned. As you might recall, about six months ago I was posting a string of entries that highlighted my attempts at cleaning an enameled Le Creuset pan. The poor timing (oops) of that project was interrupted with a move from Washington to Upstate New York. I must go where the Navy sends me.
    The move itself I can declare mostly a success. Yet, facing the same conundrums that many other folks face when moving around, specifically 'Where the heck am I supposed to put (insert the appropriate title of your random item of choice here)!?!'. I recon that might be why I cannot find the Le Creuset pan. I hope that it did not get recycled. I took advantage of the opportunity to deep clean the kitchen and garage with reckless abandon.
    I called up a friend of mine, Brandon, to wander on down to my house to help me take a few loads of junk to the dump. His pickup is much larger than mine. What should have been three loads to the Waste Management transfer station, turned out to be one load to the dump and two loads to his house.
    Like any good homesteader Brandon has an eye for the value and usefulness of stuff. Very nearly everything, well I guess by truck load merely 2/3rds by volume, we pulled out of the garage and house he chose to redirect to his homestead. He tells me he needed the old wire, tools, poles, posts, wood, crab pots, etc... to build a chicken coup. Trying to picture in my minds eye how a crab pot would help with the construction efforts of a hen house, I inquired as to what his wife thought about this and he replied, "Once I get it home it will be too late!" So off to load the truck we went. Perhaps he has the pan and is using it for a chicken feeder. Oh well, at least those peckish hens will get their required iron intake.
    In the mean time I suppose I will continue to unpack the house, continue to downsize my material possessions so that I might have more room to collect more cast iron. I have a few projects I am toying with, such as I hope to put together a electrolysis set up in the garage.
    Well, thanks for reading, and until next time, Cast Iron Jim out!