USPS REPORT: High quality washed pea gravel is available from River Bend Sand and Gravel for:
6.75 USD/ton.
8.65/ton, delivered.
A cubic yard is 1.3 tons.
("Yards" are how all rock and concrete products are measured.)
TEN CUBIC YARDS (13 tons) of Washed Pea Gravel, delivered the 14 miles to my house, is 113.00. (Comes in a BIG dump truck - it's WAY cool.) (READY to PLAY in.)
How much is ten yards? Lets picture it six inches deep. I prefer a foot, so we'll do both.
GOD YOU GET A LOT OF GRAVEL!!!
Think how many rocks that is!!!!!
FOR 113 DOLLARS!!!
If you had to fish these all out of a stream, like in nether days, think how long it would take you.
OK, a cubic yard.
3'x3'x3'.
27 cubic feet.
will cover (hey!) 27 square feet a foot deep;
or 54 square feet 6 inches deep.
10 yards cover 270 square feet, or 540 square feet.
That's 21 cents a square foot.
Think of a Ryo-anji Garden 54 feet long, ten feet wide. A play box. But not like a stinky sandbox, because kitties won't use it. This is for highly sophisticated, sensualistic grownups.
With a stroll front in stone, set easily, loosely in the gravel; along the side fence, using the fence or wall as a backdrop; or the fore-drop to the back fence. Put in some stone islands or water-plant pools, or a simple fountain.
I happen to have a 1950's cast iron coral tub.
THINK, PEOPLE! Pea Gravel is CHEAP!
NO mowing! Leaves rake off!
Here is 570 quiet square feet of space to set Stuff. Sea shells, desert rusty gears, skulls. Purple and blue insulators. Ceramics. Stone casts of dinosaur tracks and Pompeian victims. EVERYONE NEEDS A PLACE FOR THESE THINGS!
Your own, washable, canvas.
For less than the price of a noisy, stinky lwan mower. Course, you'll still need one of those anyway, but that's not the point.
The first time you elegantly toss an empty out into the gravel, your life will begin to vibrate on a new plane.
Bury a cut gladiolus to the neck of your next bottle.
Arrange five, the same way. |
