Comments on: IRFD 4: Lonesome mud https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: House Surveyor Suffolk https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5826 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:58:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5826 I’m sorry you had such a disappointing rock-flipping experience. Don’t give up though, rock-flipping often reveals some very interesting finds for young bug-hunters.

]]> By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » September wrap-up https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5825 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:18:53 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5825 […] The past month at Via Negativa began with the International Rock-Flipping Day reports, which I managed to get four posts out of. I was surprised and gratified by the response to this impromptu event, which was sparked by a comment at a VN post in late August. I linked to all the other IRFD participants I could find at the end of my second post. I was also pleased to see some dissenting voices — bloggers who preferred to leave under-rock denizens undisturbed. […]

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5824 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:26:13 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5824 Thanks, Annie (and Anonymous). I wasn’t sure how well this post would go over!

]]> By: Annie in Austin https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5823 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:44:46 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5823 As a finale this mechanical turning over of a huge slab was pretty impressive, Dave, especially for those of us on quarter-acre lots with no space for a riding lawnmower, let alone a bulldozer.

But the end result may not have been so different. My foot knocked over a rock while I was watering and there was a big black cricket.

Annie at the Transplantable Rose

]]> By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » IRFD 2: Halls of the mountain millipede https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5822 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:35:40 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5822 […] The above post is Part 2 of a four-part series on IRFD festivities in Plummer’s Hollow, Pennsylvania (USA). See Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4. […]

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5821 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:29:30 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5821 Well, that was just fine. Just fine. And thanks for the Fall Field Cricket. That was fine, too.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5820 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:24:44 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5820 I dunno. It’s someone else’s turn to play ringleader!

I guess the attraction of the bridge rock was that it was a big-ass rock that we could still tip and replace with relatively little disruption. Also, I wanted to get in touch with my inner redneck.

]]> By: Rebecca Clayton https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5819 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:22:43 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/04/irfd-4-lonesome-mud/#comment-5819 Hmmm. I looked over our cliff and its big boulders, but I thought, “Dave wouldn’t approve if we took the tractor to those…” I misjudged you. Of course, those boulders are buried so deep, there’s probably nothing macroscopic happening, and I really like them the way they are.

This has been fun! What’ll we do next?

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