The lovely split cobblestone vision sounds like the mason's version of a 
stack-log barn wall.   Always dreamed of building one of those.   There is 
an odd logic about the concept.   At first it seems logical but then you 
catch yourself thinking.

The split cobblestone vision is like the new faux classical bank in 
Kamloops, BC with cast plastic and concrete stone-like detailing all hung 
and welded on steel clips

Regarding goats:
""Goats are not very picky about their forage and when they get tired of 
chewing away on the house they can climb on top.""

In the 1960s, while living in a rural BC coastal town (being a 
back-to-the-lander according to magazine writer Bob Hunter, co-founder of 
Green Peace, who had to name such things and who squeezed me into a story to 
fit his needs) (watch out for do-good writers!), I had a friend who had a 
goat.   They both had little white beards.   In those magical days of 
chemical purity, the friend had a supply of Sandoz Laboratories LSD, the 
same stuff Leary and the experimental hospitals were using.   He kept his 
supply, a little plastic bag with 15 tablets, in a hole in a tree in the 
yard.   One day, he came home from work to find the goat sitting up in the 
tree.   This was not unusual, because the goat often sat in odd high places. 
However the bag was gone from the hole, plastic and all.   The goat was as 
normal as ever.   Came down for dinner and simply walked around being a 
goat.   What was normal was the question.

cp in bc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Baling Out


> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>      the newly married and naturally lethargic apprentice was
>>     determined to make the best of "Daddy's" ranch by using hay bales
>>     for centering a concrete dome, allowing the cattle to do the work
>>     of removing it during the next winter.
>>
>> *The centering removal plan struck me as a great idea at first, but the 
>> more I think about it, the less I like it (how do you explain safe labor 
>> practices in concrete formwork removal to REAL bovines?)  Did the guy 
>> actually try it?
>> *
> I have for many years had a dream to build a split cobblestone dome - 
> split sides of the cobbles in - and have always thought in terms of 
> centering with a pile of dirt. I like the bovine idea and see that I could 
> combine this with other likely not to be realized dream of having a goat 
> farm. The closest I ever got to that dream was the book on raising goats, 
> the goat we had that ate all the tomatoes, and the hedgehog yogurt 
> adventure. Goats are not very picky about their forage and when they get 
> tired of chewing away on the house they can climb on top.
>
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