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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> I'd agree.  I did not read what this stone is or what it's going to be
> used for, but it sounds like a lovely mantle piece.

For now it deters armadillos from pushing under a fence into a garden.
> I'd make very sure it was supported well, or don't let the baby sit on
> the hearth.

Coincidentally, speaking of support, that three inches of rain we got  
Saturday finished the job on something at the top of the old stone  
chimney. My foggy memory says I put a piece of plywood on the flu  
hole, then a piece of metal, then some stones. Something changed  
during the storm. A stone came down that I would guess weighs about  
fifty pounds. Its corner went into the ground several inches. Glad  
people and dog were not there when it fell. If the gods were fair, an  
armadillo would have been right there at the moment of impact.