What the Heck Is This Thing Attached To?

was enough.

Was every old solution perfect?

Of course not.

But there was something wonderfully practical about figuring things out for yourself.

That mailbox kept getting knocked down, so somebody found a way to help keep it standing.

Decades later, I found the evidence buried about eight inches underground.

That’s a pretty good little piece of rural history.

Final Thoughts
I started with a rusted chain in the dirt and briefly wondered if I’d stumbled across buried treasure.

Instead, I found something even more interesting.

A tiny piece of somebody