This last weekend Derek's mom and brother came down for a visit. Since we had extra people and Hyrum was asleep we decided to see just how deep that pit was in the back yard.
We got all of the bricks cinder blocks and rebar reinforced cement blocks out and under that we found...trash! Pop cans, bleach bottles, wrappers of all kinds, packing peanuts, pop bottles another knife and a plastic bag. When we saw the plastic bag we all got nervous. Had they really buried something or someone back here? There were even phantom smells on the breeze but as it turned out it was just more junk. A bunch of plastic Walmart bags. Lovely!
We continued to dig and after an hour and a lot of earth worms we reached the bottom. Two and a half feet below the surface.
The bottom is made of bricks and there was some wood planks at the bottom. The general consensus is that it's a fire pit but I've never seen a fire pit so deep. Plus if it was a fire pit why would you cover it up? Wouldn't that be a good selling point for the house? This land used to be a cow pasture. So I don't think it was an old well or root cellar. I still wonder what it is or was or whatever and the jury is still out with what we'll do with it. Regardless I think we'll watch it for the spring and see if it collects water and has to do something with drainage. Any other ideas of what it is and what we should do with it?
Kiddie pool for Hy?
I don't think so. He didn't like being in there. I'm glad about that.
We got all of the bricks cinder blocks and rebar reinforced cement blocks out and under that we found...trash! Pop cans, bleach bottles, wrappers of all kinds, packing peanuts, pop bottles another knife and a plastic bag. When we saw the plastic bag we all got nervous. Had they really buried something or someone back here? There were even phantom smells on the breeze but as it turned out it was just more junk. A bunch of plastic Walmart bags. Lovely!
We continued to dig and after an hour and a lot of earth worms we reached the bottom. Two and a half feet below the surface.
The bottom is made of bricks and there was some wood planks at the bottom. The general consensus is that it's a fire pit but I've never seen a fire pit so deep. Plus if it was a fire pit why would you cover it up? Wouldn't that be a good selling point for the house? This land used to be a cow pasture. So I don't think it was an old well or root cellar. I still wonder what it is or was or whatever and the jury is still out with what we'll do with it. Regardless I think we'll watch it for the spring and see if it collects water and has to do something with drainage. Any other ideas of what it is and what we should do with it?
Kiddie pool for Hy?
I don't think so. He didn't like being in there. I'm glad about that.
6 comments:
Kyle and Amy Brinkerhoff said...
All I have to say is "crazy."
Eric J said...
All of this archeology is Derek's Indiana Jones dream come true.
Dave said...
Hmmm... I wonder what might be Under the pit??? ;)
Maybe it was another unfinished project.. Like a firepit that never had anything burnt in it, 'til it got used for a trash burial place.
Nikki said...
So mysterious... but Hyrum is super cute!!
Maybe you can use this to bury your own treasures. :)
Kendall and Melissa said...
So bizarre. I'm sure you'll think of something really cool to turn it into. Maybe plant some asparagus in it or something. :)
Harrisons said...
Who knows. When we finally got started tearing down the ginormous weeds in our back yard that were there when we moved in we found ... head stones!! I was nervous that someone was buried back there too. But, no. Just random junk.