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.
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.<<<
Laughing and able to imagine the scene.
Keep your eyes open for one with holes, so you can pound grains in the pockets and they make nice stools to sit on.
Or two of like size, with a plank across them, to sit on.
The miners used big ones, on an arm, to grind the ore in a rock bin, think wishing well, I have found several old Spanish arrastas, some with the smooth sided rocks and a home made eye bolt on the top, so it would connect to the arm.
In the beginning slaves pushed the arm and here they used donkeys from Mexico.
OMG!!! I love this! I would love to have rocks around like that. Beds just aren't arranged right if you don't have some rock in them. I don't know one kind of rock from another so I can't say I'm a rock hound, but I sure do like to put them around for yard decor. :-)
You can always spot a FReeper!
My husband went to Kentucky last year to attend his daughter's wedding, and he went on and on about those low walls along the highways. LOL you'd think he grew up there listening to him rhapsodize about how historic and interesting they were.