The Revive-Reuse Shop, to give it its proper name, is part of the Tasman District's Resource Recovery Centre located about 2km from my home. It's a walk of about 7,000 steps there and back. I have a Yamax Digi-Walker SW700 pedometer now and aim to log 10,000 steps a day, but I'm more motivated to walk if there is a purpose to my walk beyond exercise, like poking around in the recycling centre. Today I lugged back over 10 lbs of stuff on the return journey:
First I found an end-grain cutting board that had lost one of its corners. It's still 99% intact and how often do you cut right to the edge anyway? It is about 50% larger in cutting surface than my mixed-grain board and much thicker. It accounted for most of my 10lb weight gain for the trip home. I'm going to give it a sand with my orbital sander and finish it with mineral oil.
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The next thing I found was a Crown Lynn/Titian Ware bowl, which I nearly didn't take because my shelf for collecting honey glaze Crown Lynn is getting crowded and I should start reserving it for better pieces. It's not like I need any more small bowls. But as you can see, my resolve was weak:
Finally I saw a large wooden bowl and my mind went "salad bowl" but now that I've got it home I see it's probably a fruit bowl, because it has green felt on the bottom. I don't need another fruit bowl as I have an Ianthe plate that I love and which I use for fruit (you can see it in the background). This recycled bowl needs to be sanded and refinished too. I think I'll take the green felt off and use it as a salad bowl anyway.
These three items cost me $5.
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I put an old (35+ years?) badly stained and sliver-y big wooden board out at Mr. Hunk's construction trash pile some months ago. It was ununsable, too big etc. Richard grabbed it INSTANTLY and re-purposed it for something in his truck.
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I was reading along, and came to the pictures and went "Oh, pretty crochet. Oooohhhh... Closeup of pretty crochet! Hmmm... Lattice loops in the center, and then those motifs that I can't quite see because of the yellow bowl in the way, and then... lessee... looks like chains and dc for the first round, then sc in one loop, chain 3, dc in next loop, chain 3, dc in same loop, ch 3, and then it repeats with a sc in the next loop. And the next round is... dc-ch3-dc-ch5, with the two dc worked into the chains between the previous round's two dc."
Something like that. Yellow bowl? Not important. Not when there's pretty thread around.
Pigpen, two thumbs up for the cutting board. When I started using a larger board (and put a just-barely-damp teatowel beneath it to keep it from sliding on the countertop), I was amazed at how much easier it was to prep food.
And the
fruitsalad bowl should be lovely when it's redone.I know nothing about Crown Lynn, but heck, I didn't know anything about Flow Blue until Script mentioned it. I look at that bowl and think "French onion soup". Can you offer me enlightenment as to the deeper meaning?
Errrr... Of the bowl. Not of French onion soup.
In the second session, we learned to supreme an orange. Slice off the top and bottom, set it down on the board, slice off the skin, then slice out the individual sections. We mixed them with the chiffonade of basil that we had just made, and... holy moly. Who knew?
I was convinced that I detested oranges, even though I was okay with orange juice. Turns out that what I detested was the membranes. And that supremed orange sections were ... pretty darned delicious, actually.