Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #7, 1 by wha

wha wrote:
and you thought i was done?

here is my attempt at a frog - thought it would be easy - not - found the stone for the body in the woods, nice and round and almost completely covered with moss so i am hoping that placing this in the shade it will cover the rest - the stone for the head was easy as was putting the two together and the eyes.

the legs where a different story - i copied this from gardeners supply and they only have one set of legs and they weld the feet to a strip of metal that bends up and over to the back of the stone. the first set of feet i made where way too small for that and instead of welding i just wrapped the two outside wires around the middle one - you would be surprised how wire that uses up - then i used 2' lenghts of wire made larger feet and wrapped again - again the length of wire was not long enough to go up and over to the back - i am guessing 5 or 6' would be enough which i was not going to do.

so i used the smaller ones for the front legs and larger ones for the back and this is what i ended up with - frogs do have four feet right! - not great although i still like it.