August 24, 2008

• the big rock...

  So ya all know that I love rocks.  I brought home rocks from my last vacation to Eastern Washington.  I collect BIG rocks.  I have a rock garden that consists of exactly that...rocks.

  I can't be too weird cause my next door neighbor does the same thing.

  HMM maybe its a Clallam Bay thing.

  Any how yesterday we went for a drive looking for cedar boughs for Rob.  He's wanting to build himself his own bow.  He needs my brother to give him some tips.   Cause at this point the bows my brother built when he was 9 are better then Robs.  But hey he's having fun, and it got me up in my beloved foot hills.

  So after acquiring some Cedar for Rob we continued to explore a couple roads we'd never been on before.  We found several spectacular views that a camera would NEVER do justice to so I didn't bother, and some you guessed it big rocks.

  This was the first big one I drooled over.  I knew it was too big.  Rob disagreed, and got out, so did Sam.  Sam couldn't even budge it.  You can see its almost as big as him.  LOL

  

  We opted to leave it behind....yesterday.

  Today when Rob woke up he wanted to go back better armed.  But he didn't want that one as much as he wanted this one.

  See the bad thing about my rock collecting is Rob enjoys it too.  He gets to be "manly" and use his musCles.   And we all get to go exploring old logging roads.

  

  Now that rock was particularly "cool"  cause its sparkly granite.  And its flat.  Thus it didn't look that big.  As a side note the board in the bottom corner of the picture is a 2x12.  It rather gives you the "size" of the rock.

  hahahahaha

  Over 45 minutes later Rob discovered it was a wee bit bigger then originally suspected.  And suddenly he was craving my brothers rather strong back to help him push it up onto the trailer.  Unfortunately all he had was me (with a bad back) and 6 kids under the age of 12.

  As a result after an hour and fifteen it didn't quite make it up on the trailer.

  He decided if he had his come-along then he could do it.

  So tomorrow after church we're gonna go back and get that darn rock that's now sitting in the middle of a dead-end logging road.  Its not quite in the middle people can get around it if they want, and its a road that has grown-up and very very rarely does anybody drive on it.  It seemed stupid to move it to the side to have to move it back to the middle tomorrow.

  Tomorrow he will park the trailer BELOW the rock, and he will use the come-along.  It will be tricky to get it below due to there being no place to turn around the trailer, but its probably worth it.

  And darn it its a purdy rock.

  Even if it is a wee bit big.

  

  Oh and its not quite as flat as it looked on the top either.  LOL  It comes up to Rob's knees in height and its probably as long as Jeremiah is tall.

  I think we just might be a wee bit nuts.

   

   

   

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