That lives outdoors during the summer?
I'm going to re-varnish the wood - maybe in a color too. Something bright.
The wood I can handle but everything I think of that I might use to hang the wooden chimes seems to "fragile" or prone to rubbing...
Thoughts ladies and gents?
Cheryl
Heavy duty fishing line???
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Fishing line, unfortunately lasts forever.
Duh moment. Do you hate wind chimes or broken lines in the ocean?
I hope it's the lines in the ocean and not the wind chimes. We're not allowed to hang them outside here because of the fear that they will fly away in a hurricane and do damage. I cheat a little and I put one on my screened porch. Every so often I give it a little nudge just to hear it tinkle.
Lucille
No, like wind chimes but hate that fishing line goes on forever in the ocean. Yearly a friend and I would take my dory round to a beach that was inaccessible any other way. You would not believe what washed up there!
We would build a massive bonfire and burn a lot of the worst (yes, I know not good either) finds. There were goods from all over the world, probably from the container ships heading towards Halifax. Once we found one of those heavy duty plastic pails from Cuba, and when we pried it open, it was full of perfectly good cooked rice. We wondered if it was ditched by accident or by some crew member who couldn't stand anymore rice. Often found Israeli tetra milk cartons (they would be from the Zim line) but most distressing were yards of fishing net and once one of those plastic gizmos you get around the top of a six pack of pop cans, with an unfortunate dead bird caught in it.
There was clothing, all sorts of tin cans, baby bottles, plastic tampax cylinders and what are euphemistically called around here finless brown fish and white flounders lol
I used to collect the flotsam along the beach. And untangle the fishing line for re -use. Burning it smelled to awful, but my grand mother would use it for peas and such...
Cheryl
We burned it because the beach was isolated and we could only bring back so much in the dory for city garbage. The fire was one better than just leaving it, or at least, we considered it so. Definitely did not stand downwind lol
Last weekend was the annual "Bag the Bruck" weekend in Orkney - "bruck" is Orcadian for rubbish. Thousands of bags of bruck weighing several tonnes are collected each year
In the large bruck I see some of those pails I spoke about, no way they will disintegrate or degrade easily, and even if they did, they would still be floating around in degraded form.
Seeing them reminded me we used to get so angry at the quantity of oil containers for outboard motors, just tossed overboard when done I guess. The sweep of the beach after cleaning reminds me strongly of our beach, which so far as we knew, was unnamed.
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