Re: more rocks/ Bill's story
Hello Bill,
Thanks for sharing the story of rocks and especially the part about you
learning gardening from you father. I liked that.
My sitting rock came about because it was already there and I had to build
around it. Now if I can find the necessaries to get that gazebo up on the hill
next to the garden and under the old cedars.......
With a swing, of course, facing the setting sun... a glass of good chilled
wine after a day working in the garden.... ahhhhhh heaven on earth
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Plummer <remmulp@STNY.LRUN.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] more rocks
> Now that we are on the subject, I have to tell you a couple gneiss
> stories.
>
> Growing up we lived in the city and our lot had a fairly steep
> hill behind us. My father, with his English heritage, was a
> gardener and would go out on a Saturday morning collecting rocks.
> It was by brother's and my job to unload the rocks from the car
> and tote them to where dad wanted them placed.
>
> My next story is how we got our "sitting rock". We were one of
> the first homes to be built in our subdivision. There was a creek
> a half mile away and in the creek was a boulder roughly 30*24*24.
> We talked the plumber (no relation, the spelling is different) who
> had a backhoe to go over get the rock and bring it back and
> deposit in a prepared hole I had dug in the front woods. I was
> working and missed the spectacle of the backhoe followed by a
> half-dozen tots following the pied piper. The rock was deposited,
> but on edge. I got out my trusty bar and maneuvered to the correct
> orientation.
>
> While planting in a small bed in front of the garage, I hit a hard
> object. It turned out to be a stone about 30*24*6 which forms the
> backdrop for a small pool.
>
> Initially our small front lawn sloped up to a maple on the edge of
> the front woods. We talked of leveling the lawn and putting up a
> wall. Finally in 1972 after our flood (We were high enough not to
> have been inundated), I decided to put in the wall. I started at
> one end and had piles of soil, small stones and my wall stones.
> There was a small creek which supplied a fair number of rocks.
> There was also a house a half-mile away with a stone foundation
> that supplied more. Finally there was a rock wall that I had
> access to that supplied the remainder.
>
> Along the way I rebuilt the wall by the driveway, the one off the
> patio, built another one below the garage, another off the back
> porch, which I enlarged when we enclosed the porch and finally a
> triangular raised bed in an awkward are in the corner formed by
> the garage and porch.
>
> Bill Plummer
> Painted Post, New York
> Zone 5
