The Egyptians Managed It

 You may be a little confused by the title so I will start at the beginning. After much deliberation we decided to create a bigger space for John's bonsai at the end of the alley. We have installed a water supply and the bonsai will be shaded in the summer so the next step was to create the designated area, well two actually. However to do that John had to first dismantle, sort and then restack the ever collapsing wood pile which has been there for over 10 years.

 Underneath the wood he found two enormous stones which were :-

a) on the edge of the proposed bed and

b) we thought would make great features in amongst the bonsai.

Fortunately John had a check up with his cardiologist yesterday morning so he had no hesitation in trying to move these incredibly heavy rocks!! He did manage to move the largest one about a metre but soon realised that as it would end up half submerged it could stay where it had ended up. Anyway there was no way that we could move it any further.

However we decided that the other rock would look just perfect standing on it's end. We tried countless ways to raise it for about an hour but none were successful. I knew he wouldn't give up. Therefore I wasn't surprised when he produced a very long metal pole. We were obviously going to invoke the Egyptian pyramid building technique. However the subtle difference was that they had an army of slaves and we had two old codgers. The photo below was posed as there was no way I could take a photo while rushing around finding wood to gradually chock up the stone that John had balanced on his trusty lever. It worked, those Egyptians knew a thing or two.

 

More fun and games tomorrow when we try to move some old beams from our neighbour's barn to the end of the alley to define the second area. It's a good job we're fit!!