STONE WALL WORK IN MARCH ~

 

Here's a stone wall I built in March 2025 when two days of thaw slipped in for a moment and I got to work. I was widening a bar-way ten-feet and had to tear down the stone corner you see and rebuild. Tricky. The stone wall run in the background I built in the early 80s. The mound I'm standing on was leveled by shovel and all the stone pulled out of the ground and from an old stone wall in the way went into the new wall I am standing beside. The ground was still blocked with frost and going at it a little at a time each day removed the mound. Even before any of this work could be started there were two four foot high snow banks to shovel away and base ice to melt. Now three weeks later two full days of snow is back since March won't let go. Once it does, a full truck load of 3/4 stone will arrive and we'll get this bar-way looking pretty.

[ BA ]

  photograph by Susan Arnold

TEAM WORK ~

TEAM WORK




Each time the delivery trucks

Hit and knock partly over the

 

Stone cairn I built at the top of

Our dirt drive, each time, I re-

 

Build the cairn, stone by stone,

And each time the impatient

 

Drivers hit it and each time I

Rebuild it, until I'm getting good



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© Bob Arnold