It’s Monday again, time to start another work week! It can be hard to get going on a Monday I know. Speaking of hard, I thought I’d write a short post about,,rocks! One thing that anybody who lives in Vermont knows, is that we have lots of rocks. The state of Vermont is made up of rolling hills, valleys and rivers and creeks.

Under all those hills are rocks, lots of them! Vermont does not seem to have one single place where it’s flat, it’s all hills and slopes and rocks. Farmers that plant crops deal with rocks all the time. In fact most say their main crop is rocks! Picking rocks and stones from the field is a full time job.

It’s even a hard time to get a good lawn without rocks poking through. Hitting rocks with the lawn mower is just a fact of life here. Lots of places make rock gardens because you have so many, you might as well make something with them! (more…)