The other day I was poking around under the side porch--more about that in a later post--and I found this thing in the dirt under the porch. It's metal, about a foot long, and heavy. I asked on Twitter and Facebook, what the heck is it?? "It's a window sash counter weight," my friend Jim said. Others agreed.
I'd seen window sash weights before, but not ones that look like this. The ones I'd seen were much smaller, square, and much lighter in weight. For smaller windows, I suppose.
But that got me thinking...
How did this window weight get under the side porch? Who put it there and why? Did it come from this house?
I'll probably never know the answers to those questions. If only window weights could talk...