So, the week before last Ethan had stopped by Goodwill to get some new farm pants, when he spied a bag of tennis balls for sale and bought them. This has led to many brutal games of Tennis Ball Tag with Mirin (instead of doing chores/building barn/etc).
To defend himself, Mirin has created Monty Python-style armor out of junk he found laying around the farm. Here is a colander taped to a broken chicken feeder for a helmet, with a broken galvanized poultry waterer for body armor, and a trash can lid shield. He wanted me to post a picture up.
In the background you can see his leaf-bag hut he made. It's wooden pallets nailed together, with a piece of plywood nailed to the top, feed bags stapled on one side and bags of leaves on the others. The front has a massive chase top Ethan brought home years ago (I'm not exactly sure why) when he worked at the woodstove. It was made slightly wrong, and had to be disposed of, and honestly it really hasn't come in handy around here in all these years until the kids started using it as the Junk Hut's "porch."
It's actually pretty cozy inside, and the pallets make little shelves. It's ten times nicer than any of the things we saw built at the Finca Mycol "Earth Skills" gathering we were at two years ago. The only downside is that we will have to take it apart in a couple of weeks when we need the leaf bags for the garden.
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