About six months ago they were listed as a come-and-get-it-free item in the Saturday paper. I called and amazingly the pick up location was one street over from where I live. I hurriedly got my shoes on and called my mom to come help me lift them into the truck and we got there before anyone else.

It was starting to rain as we were moving them and it took 3 trips in my truck to get them all. I was hurriedly dumping them along the side area of the driveway between trips. That’s where they have been sitting ever since. Waiting. The cats have adopted them thinking they were put there as new platforms for lounging in the sun. But no more; I moved them this weekend with a little help. The larger ones are REALLY heavy! 

There aren't enough of them to make any grand display or landscaping feature, so I just decided to use them as a kind of barrier, marking a raised bed boundary around a tree...yeah, I know, pretty typical...but effective for now. At least they aren't still taking up space in the drive way.

I cleared away a bunch of trash bushes that were getting out of control on the east side of the yard. There are two large oak trees there. I dug up all the bushes, cutting the roots. This took me two days, most of the day Friday and Saturday