LOL, collecting rocks was always trouble for me, hated to leave the ugly ones that no one else will pick up.
I ruined a couple tires on one trip, tucked too many rocks in the trunk.
Goodness gracious!! Away from the puter 2 days and it takes me another 2 days to finish the old thread and go through the 600+ replies on this thread. I share your love of rocks. My problem is that I love BIIIIG rocks. Wish I could build a rock fence. We have literaly miles of old rock fences out in the country that our ancesters built many, many years ago. How I envy the people that own them now.
We live on land out of sight of the main road with river frontage that has a rock bed from the days of the glaciers going through. I can look at some of those hugh rocks and just visualize where I would like them. After much convincing, I get hubby to take his ancient loader, hook a tow strap to one of those rocks and haul it to where I have visualized having it. Then it is up to me to coax it into place with a crowbar. Have torn up a lot of field with those rocks being hauled out of the river and to the place I want them, but it is worth the bother of raking the sod back and smoothing it over. So far, I have large rocks at all four corners of the house, a large flat rock as a bottom step at my back door and lots of big rocks in the center of all my flower beds.
Got lots of ideas for more rock placement this summer when the river gets low enough for “rock harvest.” LOL. At the rate I am going, I need to live to 100 to get just half of my projects finished.