The property we are on right now has some history behind it - and some parts of it are not that flattering.
Before us, there was an old lady living in this house. I don't want to be ungrateful or disrespectful, but she did not the best job by keeping the place clean. When I was a lot younger when I'd come to visit her I recall times when she was taking out the trash - and by that, I mean throwing them in the backyard bushes. It was back in the 90's and Latvia just broke free from occupation by Russia. Everything was raw, everything was new, everything was unexampled. So people had to figure out a lot of things. And waste management was one of them. Some did it better, some did it worse.
This is how the place looked back on 18 Sep 2015. There where giant bushes and a lot of wild rose shrubs.
We cut down all the bushes in 2015 and pulled out most of the stumps and roots in summer 2017. A lot of garbage came up while pulling out the stomps. And just a couple months back I decided just to go over one more time with a shovel. I focused on the area that was just next to the bushes and wasn't touched by the tractor. The area I covered was about 2x2 meters.
But it was enough to find several perfume bottles and drugs.
Shoe-polishing cream.
Several empty milk bottles/ a lot of broken ones.
3 buckets with a different type of waste
And the thing that scares me the most is OLD BATTERIES. If I recall correctly, it was over 35.
And these old batteries make worried about the soil condition. Some of the batteries were broken down to the level where they were not holding together anymore. I guess we will leave this place alone for now and maybe we will decide what we can do here later.
That's it for now.