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After a full day of shopping for rocks…. the sheer joy of it made my heart sing!…. a decision was made and we returned the next day to make our purchase.
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I tried unsuccessfully to talk the husband into a few prime boulders…
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But settled for a pallet of fieldstone. Rule #1 of working with stone? If someone agrees to build you a garden border… don’t push your luck.
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Because the husband’s new (read – old as dirt) truck only has a a half ton capacity and a pallet weighs 3,000 lbs… I wanted to have the stone delivered. But the fee was $150 so my thrifty spouse wanted no part of that. The compromise? Split open the wire, divide the bundle and spread half the weight in the bed.
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This was hot, dirty work but we made the first trip home safely.
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And then stacked the rocks in the garden they’ll be bordering.
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1,500lbs of stone seems like a lot more when you have to keep moving them.
To be continued…
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River's world..... 
Stones do not want to move. They spend a billion years getting to a place they feel at home, and damn if we do not ruin it in about 15 minutes. Same with seashells.
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These stones have no say in the matter. And once they’re surrounded by flowers I’m sure they won’t mind the relocation.
🌸🙂🌸
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Flowers can be bullies
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Then there might be a rumble. Stay tuned…
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Your husband sounds a bit like mine. Cheap! Al least when it comes to certain things. He is getting a bit better because he is beginning to feel his age. New rocks are exciting.
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It’s funny, he thinks nothing of spending hundreds on some random antique or old coin for his collection… but delivery fees? No way.
🤷♀️
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Well glad to know your back to rocking! Yes, pun intended….😁
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If I can’t travel to the big rocks, the small rocks will have to come to me.
🤣
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Kind of like how half a cord of firewood seems like a lot, until you hit a stretch of sub-zero weather.
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Anything that has to be stacked numerous times gets heavier.
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Off topic: Omatra7 needs some help finding something in Maine, most likely some kind of info (she lives in NorCal; currently in TX for sick mother). I’ve never found here to ask too much. Won’t be money or housing or anything like that. m I’m going to tell here to head over here. Up to you whether or not you help her out… no worries if you don’t.
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Happy to help if I can.
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These stones will love their new home. The way hubs is going with projects now, I’m guessing it won’t take long.
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You never know with my other half. Sometimes he jumps right in, sometimes he has to stew on it a while.
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Working with stone does take some thoughtful consideration. You should run a poll to guess how many stones get removed/swapped-out/relocated after they are set in place. I’ll bet it’s a non-zero number.
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Heck, we did that just stacking them.
🤣
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Hahaha
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