Strange times (thankew to the Doors)

We got a call from our contractor, with a message from the excavation sub. There are Big Rocks lurking underground at our property. We had hoped that the really big ones were elsewhere, but not so. See below --
Watching the process of getting this behemoth out out of the basement hole --
Was an interesting (and somewhat exciting) process. At some points, the excavator was tipped up to at least 30 degrees while the operator was trying to pluck this giant out of the ground. By the way, this one is most likely the biggest one yet. Another factoid: it has no sharp edges. Even this one has been tumbled in the Missoula Flood waters that brought it here. That's food for thought. I don't think any of us would want to be around when that was going on....

...and there it is, out of the basement. To get this one out, they wrapped some chains around the rock and attached the chains to a dump truck. The truck couldn't pull the rock out by itself, but it was able to keep the rock from rolling backwards back into the hole, so they were able to work it up and out of the hole. When they got it out, they got a round of applause -- quite an accomplishment.

No, the photo above does not show a UFO. But it documents yet another odd occurence around this project. The object in the sky above the excavator is a blimp that happened to be flying by at the time, and I also happened to have a camera at the ready. How often does this occur? You have me there -- I can't recall anything like it up to this point.

We're definitely going to be using some of these big rocks for landscaping, so we now have some decisions to make, as far as where we put them. Our excavator has offered to place some of them for us for no charge, so we are going to do our best to take advantage of that. The story is that the big'uns are valuable, but it's also costly to move them. It will be interesting to see how this works out....