Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #7, 2 by wha

wha wrote:
then i started looking at the link's celeste posted and while sorting through buckets of stone looking for the flower arrangements three stones stood out - and i thought i could make an ant as patti suggested - the fire ants celeste posted where all made held together welded metal which i do not do - i had just enough thick brass rods left after cutting down the length from 36" to 24" of the last flower arrangement to make legs and to hold the stones together - then it was a matter of bending them into the correct shape for legs using a vice. had to down load some real ant pictures to make sure it was ant like - last that middle stone needed to have eight holes - the head was also a bit tricky with the antenna's and i did not dare try and drill two more holes for the pincher's as i did not think the stone would stay hole.

here is the finished ant - it is about 18" long and pretty heavy