At the top of Diana’s Baths we found a cairn garden.
Cairns…
Everywhere you looked.
Small cairns, big cairns.
Precariously balanced cairns…
Even one slightly Zen cairn…
Although technically not, as it’s singular.
But I liked it all the same.
Cairn:
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn[ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn[ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]).[1]
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, from prehistoric times to the present.
In modern times, cairns are often erected as landmarks, a use they have had since ancient times. However, since prehistory, they have also been built and used as burial monuments; for defense and hunting; for ceremonial purposes, sometimes relating to astronomy; to locate buried items, such as caches of food or objects; and to mark trails, among other purposes.
Of course you know as soon as the husband saw all these constructs…
He was going to have to build one of his own.
And it was going to have to be made with boulders.
Oh… the effort and planning that went into this.
Meticulously searching the shore for the perfect shaped rocks.
The rearranging… the balancing.
Men.
Don’t let them tell you size doesn’t matter.
His cairn.
His very large cairn.
He particularly liked the way the bottom stone looked from this angle.
For his sake, I’m hoping the first high wind doesn’t knock it over.
FYI…. there are no cairn memes that don’t involve cute little dogs.
And when I searched Giphy for “stone cairn” ?
Epic fail.
River's world..... 
Careful. You’ll find an entire shed full of cairns…
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It would be an improvement over rusty pesticide sprayers…
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Maybe you should start building cairns around your yard, see what the hubs says.
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Well, we have 3 stone walls already. He probably wouldn’t even notice….
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Hubby should leave the stonewalling to Trump — he’s expert at it. However, I’ll admit that hubby’s cairn is nothing to sneeze at (it might blow over).
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No sneezing allowed!
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Now that’s a mighty fine cairn there! It kind of looks like it has Bette Davis eyes, so you might say it’s a Kim Carnes edition.
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A Kim Carnes cairn!
I like it…
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I definitely see a yard of cairns in your future, maybe even a sign for the barn that says “Cairnville”. 🙂
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I can see that….
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After all that building of a cairn we need something to eat!!!
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Why did I know you would say that…?
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Well, at least they got the Stone part of stone cairn right … but it stopped short of the flash …
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For which I am grateful…
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Pretty impressive cairn!
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Well done! (Hubs – the post is OK too)
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He’s skilled with rocks. Is it any wonder I married him?
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🙂
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That’s a heckofa cairn, there! Mona
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If you’re going to do it… do it well.
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Okay, I am now an official fan of husband and his cairn-building.
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I admit… it was a rather impressive specimen.
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I dig it.
Stone cairn is a fab gif — haha!
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Technically you stack it… but yah. Fab!
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