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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 16:52:47 GMT
We found a huge fat frog in the garden in my parent's house (city) and I usually find salamanders in my yard. We did dig up an old milk bottle as well. What (strange) things have you found in your garden?
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Post by lbp on Mar 9, 2018 16:54:41 GMT
Some arrowheads. Not strange but fascinating.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 17:11:49 GMT
A dead bat, I think a cat had left it as a gift.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Mar 9, 2018 17:19:44 GMT
not in my garden, but in our backyard... the next door neighbor has a huge pine tree very close to the wall, and I found an owl pellet on the ground underneath the tree limbs. I took it apart (former biology major, here, lol) and there were tiny little bones, fur, etc. from a mouse or some such animal. The skull was partly intact, so I could see the jaw bones and some teeny, tiny teeth. It was pretty cool!
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Post by basketdiva on Mar 9, 2018 17:32:29 GMT
We found the jawbone of a raccoon while raking pine straw in our yard.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 9, 2018 17:44:39 GMT
not in my garden, but in our backyard... the next door neighbor has a huge pine tree very close to the wall, and I found an owl pellet on the ground underneath the tree limbs. I took it apart (former biology major, here, lol) and there were tiny little bones, fur, etc. from a mouse or some such animal. The skull was partly intact, so I could see the jaw bones and some teeny, tiny teeth. It was pretty cool! Cool and horrifying at the same time! We found tons of things in my dad's garden when I was a kid. A very powerful tornado planted a garage roof vertically right in the garden. For the next 25 years, we found nails, boards, lumber, etc. Debris worked its way up as the frost came out of the ground. |
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Post by scraptag on Mar 9, 2018 17:53:43 GMT
I will occasionally find an action figure my son has left behind after playing with them in the raised garden beds.
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Post by femalebusiness on Mar 9, 2018 17:59:06 GMT
I found a bong stuffed in the fence between our house and the teenagers who lived next door. That was years ago and I've been using that bong ever since.  |
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Post by papersilly on Mar 9, 2018 18:04:14 GMT
i found a giant praying mantis in the exact location on my dwarf orange tree on different days. it freaked me out because it was so huge and it was in the exact spot from before. it wasn't dead because it jumped when i jigged the branch.
oh, and i found my dog's stuffed Minnie Mouse doll in one of the planters. he always feels the need to bring a stuffed animal with him when he goes pee. it's the weirdest thing. he usually drops them off on the cement walk before going on the grass so it was weird to find Minnie in the planter.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 18:11:02 GMT
You will find Godzilla in my garden.
You may or may not find something under my fruit trees.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 18:11:23 GMT
We kept finding those little hooks you screw in for hanging up your keys in our front flower bed and driveway. We never used them so I have no idea where they came from. Every time I dig in the front, I find one. I'm thinking the previous owner used them to hang lights but just unscrewed them and left them on the ground.
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Post by rhubarb on Mar 9, 2018 18:18:02 GMT
We found where deer had sampled every single almost ripe cantaloupe one night. Ugh. We would have shared. Completely eat a few, but a bite from each??
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Post by uksue on Mar 9, 2018 18:22:49 GMT
I found a wooden wishing well ( about 5 ft tall ) in the middle of my rear lawn after a particularly wild windy night. It had travelled from 4 houses down . Luckily it didn't do any damage,neither in our garden or on the way to it !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 18:36:29 GMT
I found a bong stuffed in the fence between our house and the teenagers who lived next door. That was years ago and I've been using that bong ever since. An interesting and useful find!!!  |
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 9, 2018 18:37:47 GMT
Found a box of hollow point ammunition buried in the flower bed years ago when we lived on a military base.
Our next door neighbor found a nest of rats.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 18:40:18 GMT
ou will find Godzilla in my garden. You may or may not find something under my fruit trees. Will we also find the carcass of that chicken that pecked your toes?  |
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Post by jennrs on Mar 9, 2018 18:40:59 GMT
The thing that freaked me out the most was a snake skin up close to the deck. Once, while digging, we found a jawbone of a small dog, it looked like. I’m thinking it was a buried pet. If any future owners start digging after we are gone, they’re in for a surprise. I think we are up to 6 cats and 2 guinea pigs buried in our yard.
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Post by kkooch on Mar 9, 2018 18:41:12 GMT
Not strange but plentiful, we find TONS of little white buttons in our garden. We use to keep them but it's like why we'll never use them, granted it would be pretty cool to have made something with them or see just how full that jar would be now. My house was built in 1818 and I'm sure back then trash was burned or buried so hence a ton of buttons. I wonder if they are made from bone that they are still intact.
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 9, 2018 18:46:13 GMT
Not strange but plentiful, we find TONS of little white buttons in our garden. We use to keep them but it's like why we'll never use them, granted it would be pretty cool to have made something with them or see just how full that jar would be now. My house was built in 1818 and I'm sure back then trash was burned or buried so hence a ton of buttons. I wonder if they are made from bone that they are still intact. Growing up we used to visit distant elderly relatives on their farm, and there was an area where trash used to be buried. Us kids were always out there digging up old glass bottles, broken tools, dishes etc. |
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Post by Sue on Mar 9, 2018 18:50:58 GMT
At different times while digging flower beds and laying out new sidewalk and step areas we have found 3 different Native American artifacts. The first one is a stone ball, perfectly round, about 4 1/2 inches in diameter. We had an OMSI scientist look at it and it was determined to be a game ball. Another time we found my favorite... a lovely small stone pestle. It's worn very smooth and fits perfectly in your hand. By turning it you can feel exactly how it was held and used through the millennia. And the last thing we found was a partially knapped arrow head made from a piece of green malachite that had been traded by Native Americans who came down the Columbia River from further east, the stone probably coming out of Montana.
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Post by RosieKat on Mar 9, 2018 19:03:44 GMT
When I was a kid, I found a marijuana plant (small) in my personal flower garden. Now, it does legit grow wild in some places, and this yard did back up to a huge field (acres upon acres). But...I just don't know I believe that's where it came from!
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Post by joelise on Mar 9, 2018 19:06:25 GMT
When I was in my 20s my dad built a swimming pool in the garden (North of England, no heating, didn’t get used much!!). Over time, in it, we found a dead blotted toad, a dead cat and the most unusual of all, a live fully grown cow, which after very much effort from my dad, the farmer and a very large pole was successfully rescued!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 19:13:22 GMT
 Glad they were able to rescue it! |
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Post by blue tulip on Mar 9, 2018 19:22:30 GMT
bagels. we threw out old food and table scraps for the critters (lived in the country) and our outdoor German Shepherd would steal any bagels and bury them in the garden. wouldn't bury anything else, just the bagels.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 19:24:15 GMT
wouldn't bury anything else, just the bagels. That is hysterical.  |
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Post by drummergirl65 on Mar 9, 2018 19:27:47 GMT
Old toys from probably the fifties. Not too much. Where we lived was all built in the early fifties
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 9, 2018 19:40:31 GMT
I found a bong stuffed in the fence between our house and the teenagers who lived next door. That was years ago and I've been using that bong ever since. Bwaahaha! |
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 9, 2018 19:43:08 GMT
When I was a kid, I found a marijuana plant (small) in my personal flower garden. Now, it does legit grow wild in some places, and this yard did back up to a huge field (acres upon acres). But...I just don't know I believe that's where it came from! You need to get together with femalebusiness. She has the bong! |
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Post by shessoaverage on Mar 9, 2018 19:43:48 GMT
Our house is on what was a farm from the turn of the century through the '30s. Our house is down the hill from where the old house stood. I constantly find little pieces of broken Blue Willow-looking china in our yard, sometimes while digging, and sometimes just erupted up onto the top of the ground. I guess our lot was the location of their own personal "dump". They must have either been clumsy, or had anger management issues. I grew up in a family of six, and we rarely broke dishes, but these folks had to have gone through a set of china a year. I've collected everything I've found, and want to make a mosaic with it one day.
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Post by LuvAgoodPaddle on Mar 9, 2018 19:55:36 GMT
I was enjoying my coffee one morning and looked out the back window to find 3 chickens in our backyard. We live in the middle of a housing development and have a fenced in yard so it was totally unexpected and strange! We have farms about 1 mile away so that is the only place they could have come from. Chickens are not allowed in our neighborhoods plus we would have heard them if they came from a nearby neighbors house. It was so strange they picked our backyard between the farms and all the houses they passed to get to ours. They even had to cross multiple roads to get here. They were very pretty and looked well taken care of, so we let them stay in the back yard for a few days in case someone came looking for them. No one ever did, so they went to my sisters house who had some property to keep them. |
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