Junk or gold mine ...

One of the things that I enjoy about this village
is that it is full of useful junk.
As mentioned in prior articles this village was
a South African military base. It's been at least
20 years or so since it was last used as such but
there is still a lot of things hanging around.
Every time I walk through the village I am finding
these pieces of wire or old hinges or pipes or
pvc tubes. All things that with a leatherman, hammer,
nails and a small dose of imagination, can become some
cool little gadget or solution to some need.
This afternoon I decided to go out in the bush to look
for sticks that I could use to support the tomato
plants in the garden. What I came upon (in photo) was
an old fuel dump about 50 meters from the landing strip.
Just assuming that it was for planes.
Also noticed an old portion of a fence around it with
regular and barbed wire. Could be useful when we
expand the women's support group garden.
One of those old fuel drums looks like it has a solar
oven potential transformation in it's future. Just need
to get a piece of glass and some type of insulation.
But that's just a matter of time till I stumble upon those
items.
For me it is just a fun thing to look at some interesting
piece of junk and think of what are the possibilities
of making something with it.
I like the having to rely on the wits to come up with
new things that will make life easier and re-cycle
or clean up this place a bit.
When I was in El Salvador and Senegal we would
have died to have this type of access to home
improvement goodies.
I guess the true question is, is it junk or is it a gold
mine. I think that it is a gold mine of parts that
allows limitless imagination.
Looking forward to more jaunts in the bush, wonder
if I can find and poles for basketball and some
pipes for the kids mini soccer goals and ... who
knows what other junk ... er ... I mean gold is out there.