Re: [gardeners] Rocks
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 16:14:17
At 09:45 AM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sun, 17 May 1998, George Shirley wrote:
>
>> I sometimes think about renting a flat bed truck and going some place where
>> they have "free" rocks and getting a load. The blasted stuff sells at a
>> dear price around here. Watched a guy buy two pallet loads of what looked
>> like sandstone flat slabs the other day. Paid cash, had to be a drug lord
>> to afford that much rock here on the Gulf Coast.
>
>Ok, guess that settles it. Time to re-institute the triangle trade.
>Need to go to TX to pick up the in-laws 35 ft trailer and the truck to
>haul it. Gonna haul shrimp and okra to Iowa, pick up a load of real
>sweetcorn for Oregon (guess it'll have to be the extrasweet types) and
>then bring a half load of rock to you in LA and half a load of
>construction grade cedar to Harry in MS.
>
>Kay
>
Aha, grey market players, just what the highway troopers of all those
states are looking for. Two of 'em, trying to pass themselves off as a
botanist and a computer geek. Yup, yup, wonder what the reward would be for
turning you in? <VBG>
George