roadside finds

Some of you may remember that I found this old window by the roadside

several years ago. Some men were working on rehabbing a house down my

street and I saw this window by the garbage can. I got out of my car and asked

the men if I could have the window. They looked at me as if I were crazy! Those

men obviously did not know about the vintage, chippy trend.

Ever since then, I haven't known quite what to do with this window. Every summer,

I faithfully take it out of the garage and simply lean it against the fence. And every

summer I say to myself, "I'm going to scrape and paint that window. And then use

it in my house somewhere." Mmm-hmm. What's stopping me from hanging this in

 my house is the weight of this window. It weighs a ton. Maybe because of the

 glass panels. So I suppose it would great on top of a dresser or side board, but

the only dresser we have right now is too tall. There is the side board in the entry

way of my living room, but there's a huge mirror and plates hung on the wall

above this piece of furniture. And...there's a buffet in my living room too, but again,

a big, decorative piece (which I really like, so don't want to remove) hanging on the

wall above the buffet. Oh well, guess this makes a great garden piece!

Now here's my latest cool find. The other day, Brian and I were driving down the

road and I spied a big piece of wood leaning against a tree. I told Brian this "just

might be something interesting", so I had him turn the car around. He pulled over

to the side of the road, and as I got out of the car and went to the tree to inspect

this wondrous piece of wood, a man in a pick-up truck slowed down on the other

side of the road, then stopped. He just sat there, staring at me. At first I thought

maybe I was taking something that was rightfully his. But he never said anything.

So I told Brian I did indeed want this piece and he came over to help me put it

in the car. It was very long and very heavy. As we were putting the wood into the

car, the man drove off. So he must've spied it too and went back to get it, but

we beat him to it - ha! 

Here's the thing: I have absolutely NO idea what to do with this. It's about 6 ft. tall/long

and is so heavy, that I could barely drag it to the side of the house. If it were lightweight,

I would love to paint something on it and hang it somewhere in my house. It has 

interesting hardware on it, too.

Any ideas out there on what this was originally used for? 

Or, what I could do with it?

 Happy weekend!