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@gingerw Bearly is reinforced fiberglass. I got him, already well-loved, at a plant sale 5 or more years ago for a few dollars. It was fun mixing and layering paints to get him looking close to original. I felt a little guilty at spending more for paint than I paid for him - until I saw his new brother in a fancy garden center this week for nearly $400. Yikes!
Inspired by your description, I took some time this afternoon to reposition a lot of the bigger rocks into my newly planted gardens, but not before I got my husband to chop down a shabby, overgrown lilac in the center - leaving behind only 2 small clumps of seedlings. Wow has my back garden changed in just 2 short weeks.
Now I truly am finished out there until my thumb heals. Happy rock gardening
Sue
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@sueinmn I bet you will be chomping at the bit to get back out there after the surgery that while your thumb is healing! You'll beat me making little drawings and rearranging things on paper just itching to get out there and do it for real, right?
I moved about 6 cartloads of rocks today. My husband fashioned a cart for me by adding a large heavy duty plastic storage bin to a dolly, one that you can change from 2-wheel to 4 wheel. I only load as much as I can push or pull at a time. The smallest rocks I am working with are at about 5 lb. The large ones are close to 50, and yes, I can pick them up. It's a bit of a struggle lifting them into the cart and then having to take them back out once I get over to the Rock feature but the alternative is really poor. I am dividing this it into quadrants so that I don't have to be walking across uneven surfaces too much. Of course, I started matching rocks to shapes and almost looking like a horizontal dry stack! Three more carts on Monday will finish all the rocks on the south fence into the future. Then I will have to go to the northeast corner and gather the rocks there. We also have a dry stack retaining wall that the deer keep jeopardizing when they try to get to the trees that are leafing. So I might take the top two layers and move them into the rock feature also.
Ginger