Some twenty years ago, I bought a rolling kitchen island to use in the cabin—just until we got around to installing proper cabinets. Tomorrow, we’re finally ordering those cabinets and cupboards. Here’s the interesting thing: even that temporary rolling island proved enough to establish a junk drawer.
Early this morning, after coaxing a
fire to life in the woodstove, I took stock of the cabin’s junk drawer. Here’s
what I found:
- One big box of wooden matches
- Two small boxes of wooden matches
- Two partially used matchbooks
- One 60-watt incandescent lightbulb
- Six long lighters for starting the woodstove
- Three type C batteries
- Five packets of green tea
- One key ring with no keys
- One miniature screwdriver
It’s an interesting little
collection. The lighters and matches are essential. The batteries and
incandescent bulb, once useful, have mostly slow-marched into obsolescence. The
tea doesn’t really belong, and yet somehow, everything else does.
I’ve posted a photo of the island,
along with one of the miniature screwdriver posed beside a Cold Smoke beer—so
you can properly judge its size.
—Mitchell Hegman
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