Garden Projects #12

He's lucky to be alive....

Praying for him, debi. What a recovery he has ahead of him.

wow prayers ARE in order.

wow the poor guy - i've heard even a fall of 15' is enough to kill you or cause serious injury

I agree. He's a guy who is lucky to be alive.

I called our office for an update, he came thru surgery, no paralysis, looking at rehab.

Whew! Great news. Prayers for speedy recovery.

He must have been as disjointed after his fall as the turkey carcass I just put in a pot to make a nice soup. Poor guy, but he is indeed very lucky to have survived such a nasty fall. Rehab will be in order for sure with both hip and pelvis injuries. I hate it when my DH gets up on the roof to do anything as it is such a common place to have an accident. I hope he has some good insurance and workman's compensation. Best to him.

I have been out raking up here in Vt as it is so beautiful out. That is a far safer activity then being on a roof. Stayed up for the Patriot's game last night and made it to the Madden Turkey awards afterwards. It was fitting that Vince Wilfork was one of the winners. Now that man can eat some Turkey! Patti

Wow, is he lucky Deb! Not lucky...but lucky, you know what I mean.

Bill, behave!!! From now on have at least someone there!!

yes unlucky and lucky.. fast healing for him!!!

Really good news for all his injuries......I cleaned out my last garden bed....found an aster and some vinca blooming....cheered me no end.....

The injuries sound very bad, but we will give thanks that it isn't worse.

Stayed up myself to watch the Pats play 7th grade team. Didn't watch turkey awards.

Robindog, what a treat to find some of your kids still in bloom. Patti

Deb, what sad news about the nurse's husband. It's good he has no paralysis. Yes, lucky to be alive. Will have a long road ahead of him. I know a woman in the New England Daylily Society (NEDS) (also in the AHS, and has a garden that is an official AHS display garden) who fell off her roof while trimming branches. She lost part of her leg. Hasn't kept her down, though. She works at a local nursery that I frequent, and I saw her there this summer, shortly before she got her prosthesis. She was on crutches and working. What a go-getter. As for myself, I stay off of the roof.

Celeste is right, Bill. Have someone with you when you're doing something that dangerous. I would hate to hear that you were the victim of a terrible accident.

Karen

A nice cold day and after some clean-up for yet more trees that came down this weekend I decided to play a bit with some stone I have been looking at for a while.

Here are two cairns I threw together in my rock storage area. The one to the right is about 3 1/2' high and the one on the right is 5' tall.

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hard to upload a 16MB file - duh - the one on the right is stone that has a copper like tint.

here are the other two i built earlier this year

And last one - this is a piece of limestone that the local guy at the stone yard where I bought our mail post gave me. The limestone came from the big dig, they had a huge pile of it and said I could have my choice and picked this one out from 30 yds away as we drove up on a golf cart. It took me about 2 seconds after he said I could have one if I bought the mail post. I will never forget the look on his face and his first comment to me, "nice choice it looks like a fish jumping for an insect, how could you tell it was a keeper". We spent the next hour riding around the stone yard - it was a good morning.

Anyway, I added the rock in its "mouth" to have it stand out a bit more. May end up moving this closer to the water and having it stand alone.

I LOVE that last one

They all look great, Bill. Yes, the fish-like one would look great closer to the water.

Karen

Love that fish, but all the cairns look like creatures to me, science fiction ones of course!

Wha, Great Carins, but it is even now more obvious that you have rocks in your head! I am up in Boston getting ready for a pottery show, so no gardening this week. Maybe next as we still have to plant the bulbs. I just got two more boxes from the Van Engelen sale and now I see B&B is having a nice 50% off sale too. Too late. I am resisting. Patti

Not looking!!

"rocks in the head!" with an exclamation point.

there will be no more rock project posts here i guess.

You BETTER post rock project pictures here. Heehee I just tried to say that three times fast and got tongue-tied. Wha, you really could market your mad skills.

Hoping your pottery projects turn out like you want, patti.

Cool Bill

You must post them.....I need to drool over something.....

Yes, you have to continue posting!

Karen

How else would we rock?

Tee hee!

At the Warren, CT festival this fall, we met a guy who had a display of stone cairns. I've been admiring wha's sculptures for some time, and DH (yes, he's now DH) was also quite taken with the idea. So he's now been to the house, we have consulted, and he will be building one for us in the spring. Meanwhile, even though the house is closed, we have given him a couple of small projects to do this winter as his time permits. He will be emailing us pictures as the work progresses... At that point I'll start a new thread. At least I hope the work will progress...

Pam

would love to see some pictures pam

Whoa! The very best wishes on your marriage, Pam.....am very happy for you & Jerry......

Me too!

Pic 1: The slab under the impatiens was undermined and fell down because of Sandy.

2&3: There's plenty of soil under that slab, but it's a north facing wall so there's no light. I'd like a planter there to raise the level, but it's tricky because its also a rather narrow passageway. I think there's room for a curve...

Pic 4: I have a cement birdbath to put where the pot is, but the stand is too high. I think rocks will look better. There is an immovable rock underneath the pot that is there now, so it's the perfect spot.

Thanks, Marilyn!

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yes congrats on the wedding.

it is nice to have the juices flowing on changes to the yard this time of the year - a curve would be nice to break up the straight wall and something with rock over that stone would good, something to attract the eye from below.

congrats Pam!!

Thanks you all...

And thanks to you too, wha, for all your posts. Because of you I knew what a hammer drill is, our boy was impressed by that!

Congrats, Pam! I wish you many happy and eventful years of wedded bliss.

Looking forward to seeing what your hubby comes up with. Maybe I'll get a chance to venture over your way again next summer.

Karen

Thanks! That would be cool... A lot has changed since your last visit.

Would look forward to seeing the changes.

Karen