Does the title "10,000 year old gifts" tell you the subject of this post? Glacial deposits would be another description. Long ago glaciers swept this area bringing rocks from Canada. When the glaciers melted rocks were left behind, many of which live on my land. Previous owners of the property were not diligent rock pickers. Using rock picking as a substitute for gym membership I'm trying for rock removal. In that process there were many rocks too large for me, or any of my machines, to handle.
Enter Tim, from North Dakota. His planned visit to assist with rock removal, and socializing, was foiled by the season's first snowfall last November. Yesterday he arrived and today we rented a mini-excavator and went rock hunting. Smaller rocks were loaded on to the trailer for addition to a rock pile off the field. One large rock was deposited at a fence line. Another was pushed into a wetland where it'll be a roosting site for ducks, pheasants and smaller birds. Then there was big ben! It was so large the mini-excavator had no hope of lifting it out of the ground. Tim dug a deep hole next to it, pushed it in and covered it. There it may remain another 10,000 years or more.
All in all it was a good days work advancing the task of rock removal from this land.
Takk fir alt,
Al
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