Bull....

The weather forecast called for a "wintery mix" today, which means: rain, snow, sleet and even a bit of sunshine thrown in.  Wintery mix means to me:  stay inside, read a book, keep the firewood box full, do bits of this and that.

One of those bits is to fix this old bull statue. 

I found it up in the equipment graveyard a year or so ago. The equipment graveyard is about halfway up the hill.  The former owners/farmers dumped equipment and other metal crap there.  It is overgrown with blackberries, but at this time of the year it's relatively accessible.  The bull is heavy metal, maybe a pot metal with a copper top layer that has mostly disappeared, but still has some turquoise patina on the base.  This guy still has his ears, his horns and his balls.  What are the chances that after being thrown away, laying out in the weather for years, that he would still be so intact?  So the fix was that he had some old screws coming out of the base that caused him to tilt and fall. A little sawing and they came right off.  I have no idea what the original use was, but I am thinking that he works well as a doorstop.  Any other ideas?


Sometimes I just can't help myself and haul down weird rusty metal junkyard stuff.  Lovely vintage jewels for this old storage shed.