Taking it for Granite

Our Backyard Boulder Project Is A Success!

We felt that one of the most popular stories here at Day By Day in the last few weeks deserves a final follow up. In short, the rock is ours!

After all the men on the block attacked our stubborn backyard boulder with a variety of cords, ties, elbow grease and shovels, we still failed to budge it out of it’s two foot hole. Our goal was to bring it up, fill the hole and role it back into a permanent spot in the garden.

And so there the boulder sat, in a hole in the garden bed. Every day my wife would look at that hole and suppress the urge to just cover it up like a coffin.

Yesterday, a buddy who owns a landscaping and excavating company happened to be in the neighborhood for another, bigger job and he and a couple members of his crew came over and took care of business with a couple rebars and a whole lot of grunt work.

In all, it took us, with the right tools, maybe 15 minutes to get the job done! And now we have a nice 300 pound boulder in the garden bed to decorate and mulch up! Even the lady of the house seems satisfied, though she would have liked a taller boulder so she could see over the fence. Ah well!

What kind of boulder? Well, it appears to be your run of the mill granite. Does it look like anything? I have some ideas, but we’ll let Uma and her friends name the boulder. I think I might call all the boys of the neighborhood back over to take a look as well.

Pretty sure it’s time for a boulder appreciation party!

What do you all think? Does our boulder look like or remind you of anything?

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Raffle Coming Soon! Our raffle with NH Audubon to give away a Little Bean Original Painting is over and we’re tallying up the tickets. Our hope is to do the actual raffle sometime in the next week or so. Stay tuned and thank you to everyone who bought tickets!