Bushwick Urban Archaeology: Oven Timer
This sucks — this oven timer was completely intact, if a bit dirty, under the ground still attached to the rusted remains of an old stove. I pried it off, admired the fact that the face was ceramic and had interesting 60s-y numbers, and set it aside. Over the weeks of shifting piles of dirt and trash back and forth, it got covered by some dirt…and trash. One day I sent my pickaxe sailing into the ground to turn up some more earth (and dig out knotweed roots), and the pick stuck right into the timer. Would have made a cool thing to hang on a wall.
What? Yeah that’s right, an entire stove completely under the top level of dirt.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:44 am
wait. there’s an entire stove buried in your yard?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:22 am
That would be ridiculous! There was a stove buried in my yard.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Of course there was a stove buried in your yard! Why would that be surprising!
July 31st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
If only old buried stoves still worked. I would love an old stove.