. I was dropping off some stuff at the metal recycling area of our local transfer station/aka "the dump."
I was so excited to find this!
It's in really great shape! The only thing wrong with it is that it was missing one of its 5 casters. So I threw it in the back seat (you're not supposed to "scavenge") and when I got home, I took one of the identical black plastic casters off my existing office chair and put it on the new (old) chair.
Perfecto!
I am happy to replace my current chair, which actually I also got for free when an office I was working at in town closed about 8 years ago. Both of its arms have been chewed on by Luther, during his early days when he "explored" his world by trying to eat everything. I think he has outgrown that stage now.
I had put black duct tape around the 2 armchair ends and that helped patch it up somewhat, but over time the duct tape is unraveling and it's looking a little shoddy. The new chair also has a much smaller footprint overall, which works and looks better in my small office.
This morning, dad came over to return a trowel i left there when we planted garlic and I showed him his DNA results from Ancestry.com. We have concluded that my dad's father's family must have emigrated from somewhere in Eastern Europe before they landed in Germany. My grandmother's family, on the other hand, is about as Irish as they come.
Interestingly, my dad does not share the 6% Jewish European component that I have, so that part must have come from my mother's family, also Eastern European. One thing my dad did have, albeit at less than 1%, was some DNA showing Finnish/Russian descent.
After dad left, I went to the dump and then for a walk. I stopped at the farmer's market and bought a bunch of organic arugula, tomatoes and dark purple peppers.
It's a gorgeous day.
I scored at the dump!
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You may feel once you get the results that what you get back is somewhat limited in scope, and I suppose it may be. They don't, for instance, break down every country into individual countries, maybe becus borders change so frequently. So for instance there's "western Europe" and "eastern Europe," but they don't list out the individual countries in those regions.
They do list things like Ireland, Greece, Scandinavia, Jewish European, Italy, Iberian Peninsula, Great Britain, Finland.