> Once again, something suggested as a joke becomes frighteningly real.
>
> Check out #12:
> http://www.rinkworks.com/ithink/thoughts2.shtml
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> And now this:
> http://www.homemadesimple.com/sponsors/febreze_scentstories.shtml
>
> Lire"speechless"lyn

It looks like an air freshener to me. I don't think that is what Sam had in mind.

While I was there, I read number 11 about the rock gardens. I did a rock garden experiment for some 7th graders a few decades back and it grew. It was in earth science class and I wanted them to see that soil is mostly just weathered rock. So I put some of them to work rubbing two pieces of sandstone together and saving the sand that fell off. Some more students did the same with limestone and some more used shale. We mixed the results together and planted beans in it and they grew just fine. In fact they were blooming at the end of the school year and one of the students took them home to his garden.

The point is that rock gardens really do grow. They just don't grow rocks.

A long time ago, farmers thought rocks grew in their fields. They were victims of a kind of erosion called sheet washing and the lost soil was uncovering rocks. In parts of Tennessee and many other states, there are stone fences built from the homegrown rocks.

Can I help Sam rule?
Howard