My neighbor has what you would term a large disposable income. I have a modest disposable income. While I can purchase a few pretty, fist-sized rocks at the gem show and lug them home in a plastic bag, he can buy multi-ton boulders, have them shipped in on oversized rigs, and then set them strategically about his property with a crane.
He is actually doing so as I write
this.
The boulders in question rolled in
(the huge trucks rumbling, I might add) from the granite formations within the
Boulder Batholith amid the Elkhorn Mountains. The boulders are impressive, some
approaching the size of a small automobile. Given that granite weighs 165
pounds per cubic foot, I’m thinking most of these monsters weigh somewhere
north of 30,000 pounds. And, me being me, I love rocks of any size, so I
approve.
I am posting a series of images of
the boulders, including one featuring a crew setting one at the fork of the
road in front of our house and two with Desiree (instead of a Cold Smoke beer)
near more boulders as a reference for size.
—Mitchell Hegman
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