Comments on: Failure, Part 1 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4865.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Larry Severson http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4865.html/comment-page-1#comment-42623 Larry Severson Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:41:00 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004865.html#comment-42623 This is why you'll read of farmers' complaints that the only thing their fields are good for is "growing rocks". A farmer will go out to his fields in the spring and find it full of stones and boulders that weren't there the previous fall. This is why you’ll read of farmers’ complaints that the only thing their fields are good for is “growing rocks”. A farmer will go out to his fields in the spring and find it full of stones and boulders that weren’t there the previous fall.

]]> By: ed in texas http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4865.html/comment-page-1#comment-40695 ed in texas Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:39:15 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004865.html#comment-40695 It's the frost heave that brings them up. Supposedly, John Quincy Adams was deeded a piece of property by his father, John Adams, who had not yet become president. Given the choice of being a gentleman farmer, or selling and going to Harvard to study law, JQA decided to sell 'Stony Acres', as it was called, and go for the books. It’s the frost heave that brings them up.
Supposedly, John Quincy Adams was deeded a piece of property by his father, John Adams, who had not yet become president. Given the choice of being a gentleman farmer, or selling and going to Harvard to study law, JQA decided to sell ‘Stony Acres’, as it was called, and go for the books.

]]> By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4865.html/comment-page-1#comment-40608 John Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:44:53 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004865.html#comment-40608 Yeah, the principle crop of my backyard is rocks, that's for sure. The percolating phenomenon lets you know just how much vibration and movement allegedly stable ground undergoes over the course of a year. I'm glad I don't live near a fault line or the rocks would be coming up through the concrete in my basement. I live for the day I can retire back down South. No rocks, less snow, and decent BBQ. Yeah, the principle crop of my backyard is rocks, that’s for sure. The percolating phenomenon lets you know just how much vibration and movement allegedly stable ground undergoes over the course of a year. I’m glad I don’t live near a fault line or the rocks would be coming up through the concrete in my basement.

I live for the day I can retire back down South. No rocks, less snow, and decent BBQ.

]]> By: commander cornflake http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4865.html/comment-page-1#comment-40594 commander cornflake Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:26:17 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004865.html#comment-40594 Very few modern people realize that the picturesque stone borders and fences in many rural areas of the world represent literally thousands of man-hours of backbreaking physical labor. The borders weren't built for beauty or, in some cases, even for any great function; in any area where agriculture and glacial till coexisted, it was simply a necessity to find somewhere to put all the damn rocks. People came up with the same solution to the stone problem in many different places on the planet, which is why you can now find the same types of low stone walls in almost any agricultural (currently or historically) region in the world. Very few modern people realize that the picturesque stone borders and fences in many rural areas of the world represent literally thousands of man-hours of backbreaking physical labor. The borders weren’t built for beauty or, in some cases, even for any great function; in any area where agriculture and glacial till coexisted, it was simply a necessity to find somewhere to put all the damn rocks. People came up with the same solution to the stone problem in many different places on the planet, which is why you can now find the same types of low stone walls in almost any agricultural (currently or historically) region in the world.

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