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Lucy's Kissing Booth, Left in the Forest?

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Real Estate Agent with Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified #1 in Forest Land Mgmt

Lucy's Kissing Booth, Left in the Forest?

 

deer hunting blind

 

  I am accustomed to finding odd things in the forest, often in a place where you feel so remote that humans seldom venture much less leave things behind.

 

 

  Sometimes it is as simple as an abandoned farmstead or a forgotten maple syrup bucket grown into a tree, and one time while doing a forest inventory in New Mexico I found a Model T car far up in the mountains with trees growing through it.

 

 

  Today's find was not too dramatic but it did cause me to stop and ponder the things you find in the woods.

 

 

  I had just made the long climb up a billy goat hill deep in the forest that was too rugged for my atv to go when I found what appeared to be Lucy's Kissing  Booth from the Peanuts cartoons.

 

It was actually a hunting blind which I am still wondering, how did they get that thing hauled all the way out here?

 

 

 

  What interesting things have you found in the forest?

 

 

Comments(12)

Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

You do have to wonder how some of these things get to where they end up. That Model T would have been something to see. I guess these things find their final resting place out of sheer determination of the owners. Maybe it was so difficult to get them in, that the owners didn't want to take them out. We will probably never know the true stories. 

May 28, 2014 07:56 AM
Suzanne McLaughlin
Sabinske & Associates, Inc. (Albertville, St. Michael) - Saint Michael, MN
Sabinske & Associates, Realtor

How funny is that?  Yes, we have found odd things in the woods on our hikes, but never a kissing booth, Bob!

May 28, 2014 08:03 AM
Endre Barath, Jr.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties - Beverly Hills, CA
Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Bob, I was more intrigued about the Model T, did you haul it out?? That could have been worth a lot:)), Endre

May 28, 2014 08:58 AM
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Thanks for stopping by friends, always something fun in the woods, unfortunately most of my tromping through the woods was in the days before we had digital cameras and gps units with us so most of the documentation was in our field notes and our memories.

The old car was deep in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico where I spent two years doing inventory for the Forest Service in the mid 80s where we where always finding remnants from the early settlers and the indians befor them.

Taking the old car home never even crossed my mind, I believe that I was into about my 20th mile of a compass and pace line for the day and did not want to compromise my production by spending too much time there.  I did take about ten minutes though to examine some of the old buildings in the ghost town that this car was in.  Also it was far from any roads so coming back after work would have been very difficult as well as illegal.

May 28, 2014 09:15 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

I do not usually have the opportunity to walk in the forest so I am not getting the exercise or finding the surprises. 

Please continue to share your discoveries. 

May 28, 2014 10:52 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Bob that's so interesting.......you've got such an interesting profession. Best of many worlds!

May 28, 2014 11:09 AM
Jan Green - Scottsdale, AZ
Value Added Service, 602-620-2699 - Scottsdale, AZ
HomeSmart Elite Group, REALTOR®, EcoBroker, GREEN

Interesting post Bob!  I love finding things out in the middle of nowhere.  It makes you stop and think of times gone by, in a different era.  

May 28, 2014 11:37 AM
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

A shovel laying beside a tree and a fence post growing through a tree

May 28, 2014 01:08 PM
Donna Foerster
HomeSmart Realty Group - Parker, CO
Metro Denver Real Estate Assistant

Bob~ I can't even remember the last time I was in the forest! I'm not much for hiking due to my arthritis.

May 29, 2014 02:58 AM
Nick T Pappas
Assoc. Broker ABR, CRS, SFR, e-Pro, @Homes Realty Group, Broker/Providence Property Mgmnt, LLC Huntsville AL - Huntsville, AL
Madison & Huntsville Alabama Real Estate Resource

Bob, everything you find out there has a story to tell, some I'm sure are more colorful than others. I've found an old car or two, but beyond that, nothing I can remember.

May 29, 2014 01:04 PM
The Woodland Team of Texas
The Woodland Companies - Austin, TX
Land Specialists

I enjoy these out of place finds too Bob, I need to bring a camera with me more often.

May 31, 2014 06:52 AM
Nicholas Crane
Woodland Companies - Cadott, WI
Managing & Appraising Forest Land

Thanks for sharing these reports, our clients gain value from of this type of information.

Apr 17, 2020 06:17 PM