Trimming Grass and Weeds Around
Old New England Property
(Antique) Granite Landscape Fixtures
Part Fourteen
"Actually Do"
To
look back... when now... at the opening of the notice... of old stone walls on
...old New England property... as (antique) granite landscape fixtures... and
denote that a cynical and harsh murmur has steadily shadowed... like a gray fox
in the farm yard at first light... this now lengthy vignette... (approaching
‘discourse’ upon the subject?) “upon” “old granite”... Have too many jabs, pokes, “bad” points
founded and observations of
“horrible” ...taste... and behavior...too... been taken? Did I TOO divide the armies of the “I
feel” of the old and new... New England.
Do I wish I had simply snipped along the edges of the old stones with my
hand held grass clippers... the grass and weeds...? Then carried that clipping to the compost and... smiled with
approving nod toward the fab-fads of new New England of, for example, posting
one’s mailbox ON a ...granite post... by the side of the street. And it is a street too...isn’t it. Stone walls... in their original
undisturbed state are... followed... by roads.
The
stone wall was there before the road.
The
road was there before the streets (‘subdivisions’).
The
mail boxes line the streets.
In
front of the new homes.
A
“finishing” (“home”) “improvement” is
‘Posting
with granite’?
In
the etiquette of new New England... does one... put the ‘cut granite (front
door) steps’ first and
Then
(granite) “post” or...
Post
first and THEN ‘steps’.
And...
what about “the wall”?
The...
I have done it again:
The cynical and harsh
Has
begun to, already, shadow the old stone walls... on old New England property?
“Actually
do” comes first for ...stone walls.
Majority-most do ...notice and “LIKE” “OLD” stone walls they ...
notice... in... old and new... New England. The (self) “noticing notice” comes a distant second and
is... too... NOT NOTICED. After a
notice... in NEW New England... ‘old stone walls’ ‘fade away’. Like sap buckets on maple trees,
lobster traps being hauled aboard, Bean boots, islands, Moose and... ‘tall
timber’ (“TREES”)...: They (the
stone walls)... “actually do” NOT ... hold up against THESE icons. Too. No... they fall back behind... for example... Bean
boots. And maple syrup poured on
snow.
But
rabbit and turtle... the stone walls race with these New England icons... as
the turtle... and that... has... supported the stone wall’s defense of self by
the sole strength of the ‘actually do’ rabbits... of new New England. THEY (the new New England) actually
do... very... very little about ‘stone walls’.
Past
a ‘safe distance’ “LOOK”...: They
(the new New England) rarely ‘goes over to’ a stone wall to stand before
it. And look at it. NOR do they, if they should actually
do... that visit... ever ...touch... it let alone ‘move’ ‘a rock’ or... engage ANY ‘on site’ action (“actually
do”).
NOTHING
Happens.
IF...then
... the ‘what about the wall?’.
First... what IS that wall anyway.
It is, least probably, ‘recently made’. It is most probably an ‘old section’ of an ‘old stone wall’
that is, usually... ‘out in front’ of “THE HOUSE” between the road (street),
its ‘ditch’ and “THE HOUSE”... edge of the “LAWN”. And “WAS THERE”.
IF, then...
“WHAT
ABOUT THE WALL?”
A
‘an action’ of ‘actually do’ starts a continuum ‘actually do’ of “THAT”.
Short
listing this I: The
Discuss
with
Landscape
service guy
And
/ or
“DRY”
stone mason guy
Too...
the building /landscape supply (box?) store:
“We
have our selection of (one ton) pallets of “STONE”
Along
the back edge of our lot”.
And
The
“want it to look like THIS” craft... man’s... ship (a boat one ‘gets on’).
To
actually ‘actually do’ ...starting at one end (of the ‘section’ of ‘old stone
wall) at the property’s edge and ‘going all the way’ to the other edge of the
property... is a
Tear
Down
Of
the old New England stonewall section and
A
titled “Re-build it”.
Yep:
it is the same as tearing down a colonial ‘old New England’ homestead and
Re-building
A
NEW
HOUSE
“there”;
A
‘tear down’.
Again;
the colonial WALL was ‘made’ BEFORE the colonial house.
The
‘re-build’ usually runs out of rocks so ‘they’ ‘have to buy some’.
These
rocks... come on pallets on trucks from ‘out of state’. It is cost effective to ignore the
abundance of granite field stone ‘scattered’ in New England and ‘buy’ ‘rocks’
on one ton palettes. New New
England ... not only “THINK” these rocks are ‘nice’ but also, it seems, ‘don’t
notice the difference’ between these rocks and the scattered old New England
‘field stone’ (“rocks”)
OK?
That’s
“what they” “actually do”.
They
tear down ‘old New England property stone walls that are original old undisturbed
(antique) granite landscape fixtures and
Re-build
them so they “LOOK”
“NICE”.
Then
they weed whack them and spray weed killer along the wall base and
“THINK”
No
one notices they do that
TOO?
We
are off to a nasty start of our observation of old granite field stone walls...
on old New England property... as... (antique) granite landscape fixtures? Not really. Majority-most ‘people’ in new and old New England... never
“actually do” ‘anything’ about or with... stone... walls. For example, in my life time... with
decades of ‘actually do’ close-up visits to endless stone walls... and aside
from a very, very, very occasional ‘pick up and put back’ ‘fallen stone’ I...
myself... have... never done ANYTHING to ANY stone wall EVER. I know that because I am a very
notice-noticing my relationship with the old stone walls of old New
England. I know that what I
actually do... extends to the ‘majority-most’. Too. But there
is a dark side, we now notice... to ‘keep in mind’ and ‘denote by eye’. The ‘dead grass’ along the bottom of
the ...old New England... stone... wall from ‘weed killer’...IS symbolic.
When
denoted
By
eye.
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