The Old Folks Home

[chickisoup]

never complaining about my sandy soil again. We are so devoid of "hard spots" that when one of us finds (even a small) rock we pick it up, hold it up in the air and declare, "look what I found!" and usually place it on something where we can find it and inspect it more closely later. Just struck me how silly that is

When I wanted to put some rocks around a flower bed we had to sneak into the state forest a couple miles away and "borrow" some.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Too bad mailing rates aren't cheaper. I could have been a rock farmer.

Come take a walk, the weather's beautiful. And the snow's almost melted.



There's rocks everywhere.

There's rocks that we use for specific landscaping that came out of the ground on our property:


There's rock walls that someone built in the woods (and all over Maine) with all the "extra" rocks years ago to separate out property lines and segregate areas and to get rid of the rocks:


There's large rocks in random piles all over my property:


There are small and large rocks in random piles all over my property:


Some giant rocks that were blasted out to make room for my basement were turned into steps. Other large rocks that are staying put we try to cover with weird landscaping creeping bushes:


Some rocks are actual "ground" without dirt and grass


Tonya Harding Chicken with a very dirty Jay Leno Rock and friend rocks, again just tossed into the yard:



Hope you enjoyed the Maine Rock Tour.

 

[ronott1]

There's really no way to deal with them other than work around them. Most yards around here have giant piles of giant rocks that were dug out during construction of the house. Some people try to arrange them, but most just have a rock pile. The smaller more manageable rocks people usually make rock walls with. There's rockwalls all over Maine.

We have an area like that up by Mt. Lassen. It is from a mountain blowing up that was called Mt. Tehama.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Makes me want to saddle up a horse and jump it!

-Kathy

 

[bamadude]

Makes me want to saddle up a horse and jump it!

-Kathy

Makes me wanna learn Mandarin

 

[perchie.girl]

Same thing here. I even have problems finding places to throw poles into the ground - we put up poles every year to show us where to plow and where to watch out (we also have rock piles) and sometimes I have to be creative to get them into the ground. The suet feeder is located where it is because of so many rocks just below the surface. Our rocks aren't little piddly ones either that you could crack and get out, we're talking hard rocks the size of boats.

It was another spectacularly bad week here... the rental car is now on the fritz. The company says "oh just keep driving it, it's fine" but I'm pretty sure the car is supposed to turn off when you turn it off and remove the key, and not 10 seconds later after it shudders to off. Also the "maintenance required" light is on but the company tells me it just needs an oil change. Oh and the engine revs when I step on the brake.

sounds like its dieseling... The rental company should bring you another one. urg

deb

 

[casportpony]

You all inspired me to change my avatar!

-Kathy

 

[perchie.girl]

oh, and about the rocks... not sure how you manage with the "impossible to break without high tech equipment or dynamite" rocks... the giant slabs of limestone are bad enough.

dad used to work a peach orchard... it was his job to drill holes every so often to put in quarter sticks of dynamite... To crack the sub strata so the water would drain out of the orchard....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
That was probably it....

deb

 

[casportpony]

2001 was the one I was thinking about:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-12483017

-Kathy