Perhaps you remember from a few weeks ago that we found a Big Rock where we were digging the rose garden. If you scroll down a few frames in this blog you can see it.
Yesterday we pulled that rock out of the hole. We used the latest tools and techniques of ancient Egyptian technology ( ropes and rocks ) to get it out. You can see our setup in the photo below.
Originally we hooked up the rope as a parbuckle, thinking that we would roll that sucker out of there with ease. No such luck. The rock was too heavy and not round enough, so we could not make it roll with just the ropes.
That is where the Egyptian rocks came in. We could move the rock just enough by prying it on with a shovel and pulling on the parbuckle so that we could stick a smaller rock underneath it on the far side.
Rock by rock, we rocked and rolled a little bit at a time until we could scoot the rock out over the edge of the hole. And here it is set into its final ( and I do mean final ) artistic resting place.
By the way, while we were out in the yard we ran into one of our former tadpoles. Look at this.
There’s one handsome dude… for a toad. We let him go back into the yard to eat more gnats and mosquitoes.
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