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I’d be rich

June 8, 2016 by Lloyd 6 Comments

I was tooling around Lincoln yesterday gathering information on the things we’d need for the new CDC Playground. Don’t tell Lauren. She thinks I watch West Wing all day. One of the most pressing answers I needed was, “What does a ton of boulders look like?”

You buy landscaping boulders by the ton, but I didn’t have a good understanding of what that looked like. So I went to a landscaping company and asked how much boulder I could get for $190.00 (which looks like the standard price for a ton of granite boulders in Lincoln Nebraska).

He had a kid (which now means anyone under 30 years old) meet me at the boulder pile and said kid pointed to rocks, um, I mean boulders, and said how much they weighed. Turns out a basketball-sized boulder is about 100 lbs. So you’d get 20 of them for $190. But if you double the size, the volume is 8 times as large, so you’d only get 2-ish of those for $190.

Pricing for granite is also interesting. Granite boulders are $90 a ton in Denver (which makes sense, because that’s where they make boulders). It is $60 a ton in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. More expensive than granite (well, everything is here) is moss-covered boulders, which we had aplenty in Missouri.

In fact, we couldn’t give away rocks in Missouri. We had to (okay, I only remember doing this once) pick up rocks out of fields and put them in piles. Not to later sell them for $3.00 each. Just so they could be in a pile.

I think the rocks were happier in piles.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: boulder, cdc, missouri, playground, rocks

Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2008 by Lauren 15 Comments

Happy Birthday, Jesus!!!

Well, we made it to Missouri and avoided the snow and ice.  (‘Yay’ for leaving later!  We heard about several accidents in the morning.)  We’ve been to a very nice church service and now Lloyd is playing bartender and we’re going to play some kind of dice game.  Wish me luck.  (Lloyd’s also telling all of his bar jokes.  Anyone want to list one? Or perhaps a new one?  Please?)

No photo because I’m having trouble.  How’s your Christmas going?

Filed Under: They can't all be winners. Tagged With: christmas, missouri

Lloyd’s vacation

July 5, 2008 by Lauren 18 Comments

Good grief Lloyd’s been gone a long time.  He’s having fun in Missouri now at the annual Sommerer Family Reunion at Heit’s Point.  I’m sad to not be there for the music, fun and bacon. (mmmmm…. bacon)  I don’t miss the mosquitos, though.  If you didn’t catch it last year, here’s the movie we made about the 2007 reunion.  Hope you’re having fun, Lloyd, but come home soon.

I missed the giant breakfast.

Begin the giant breakfast making!

And the hanging out on the boat.  Lloyd was supposed to bring pop – I hope he remembered.

Hangin’ out on the boat.

Here are Mom and Dad Sommerer watching the traditional softball game.

Mom & Dad watching softball.

Are you thirsty?  They must have put Lloyd in charge of spelling.

The sweet teee is ready.

Lloyd’s cousin Katie said he could have this tie rack if she made it to the website.  Anytime, Katie.  (Is that Vincent beside you?  How’d he get so tall?)

For his many, many ties.

I just have to say, how on earth is Lloyd able to check the internet from his iPhone out in the middle of nowhere, but he doesn’t have a phone signal in our house? Something is wrong with technology.

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren, Lloyd Tagged With: family, missouri, travel

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