Nan always kept a tea cup without a handle in her sugar or flour canister for scooping.

Lol! I don't do that with dishes, but I hide other things... mainly rocks and little figurines. We have a lot of quartz crystals we dug up in Arkansas. I sneak the small ones into the landscaping for someone else to find after I'm not living here.

If (he)'s a pretty fat groundhog, do you figger that you might have blocked him in?

But then ... if he can dig a hole ... I guess that he can dig himself around an obstacle.

o j

That groundhog may be wearing a fancy hat. LOL

LOL....possibly a magic teacup is born? I think that is a fun thing to do.

Hey, you could be right. The next time he pokes his head up out of the hole and whistles, he might have a hat or a flower behind his(her?) ear and be whistling "Tea for Two".

Nice story, not silly. I think it's a fun idea to bury things for someone else, another day, decade or whatever. Although, schoolhouse, you might find that teacup tossed right back at you some day! If not, it should stay nice for many years.

I have found big chunks of asphalt in the rose garden, probably tossed there when the cement driveway was put in. Haven't found one in years though. I did find a pair of scissors, pictured below. I am fascinated with decomposition, rust, the natural deterioration of objects by Mother Nature.

Not silly at all. I love the idea of someone finding the cup years from now.

All together now: tea for two

Love this thread :) We have had groundhogs living in our yard (before we retired and moved away) for many years and we've had babies running around like the Keystone cops on our deck and we've laughed. And we watched one big guy eat an entire big ornamental cabbage in one setting one fall and we laughed about how he must have burped and about whatever else happened to him.

But to the point, I love that you buried this for someone else to find and ponder about one day!

That's a cute story! I like the groundhog picture.

When we were digging trenches to run for a new septic on our property, I came across a small broken piece of porcelain. It is not a pattern I recognize and I have no idea how it got there as we were the original builders on this land.

When we remodeled, we removed a window and when we framed it up, we hid a time capsule inside with our names, current date and our current ages.

If someone remodels this place that isn't in our family at some far point in the future, they can look us up!

I have and continue to find when digging about the property, shards of a cream with blue design pottery, dish shards I'm pretty sure. I save them all and put them on the shelf of the bookcase in the library.

And also, like you Texas, when I had my bathroom remodeled some years ago, I wrote the names of the carpenters and the date on the back of a couple pieces of the baseboard before they nailed it up. They just laughed. I placed a small American flag between the studs before the workmen put up the drywall when the bedroom was remodeled too.

We actually did dig up artifacts in our backyard. My contractor was waiting for the dynamite guys to show up (limestone)and he was digging in the dirt and found all sorts of "goodies" from the old outhouse. They had no trash haulers back in 1840 and when stuff got broken they threw it down the hole. I gave some of it the historical society but I have a box somewhere here with shards of ironstone and yellowware plus intact glass medicine bottles and a few still had liquid in them.

What not throw the handle down the hole, too. That would make it a complete artifact.

I wouldn't worry about a cup blocking a ground hog. Those rascals are nature's diggers. He made the hole when you weren't looking, didn't he? A typical ground hog den has more than one entrance. The second 'emergency' entrance may not be used much and hidden under a few sticks and leaves.

What I expect, if that is an active den, is that in a day or two, that cup will be sitting outside the entrance. That will happen during the night or late evening hours.

The handle, or ear, of the cup disappeared into the trash can in the kitchen. I honestly did begin to fish it out along with the cup but couldn't see it near the top which is weird because I had just dropped it in there. Didn't want to dig any further. :(

I promise to take a photo of that cup sitting on the edge of the groundhog hole. :)

I love silliness, it makes life more interesting.

If, instead of hauling the offending furniture out, the groundhog digs an addition to the hole around it, do you think that he might put up a sign,
"Roundabout - travel with care!"?

ole joyful

schoolhouse, I think that was great. We should all do something silly once in a while.

Your story and imagination gave me a smile I was in very much need of! Thanks for sharing!!!

Fun, fun!!!

I doubt what you expect will actually happen. My guess is that if it's not already in pieces it would be when/if it's ever found. But if it brings you pleasure and amusement, I say gopher it. :)

Schoolhouse -- Thank you and all who have contributed to the whimsy. (Much needed in the world today.)