"Felice Friese" wrote in message news:Ggp0d.278931 http://home.xnet.com/~renkel/yard.20....very.good.jpg

You just HAVE to look at this, in case you think these people are kidding!

Felice

that is really something! who would'a thunk! however one of my
neighbrs.. I only had two neigbors back in 1954G had a rather
interesting garden including a comode with a quite large prickly pear
cactus in the bottom and English Ivey cascading from the top, with a
tree in back and shrubs on either side and it was really neat..good
conversation piece. I am a bit more conservative, but have to admit it
was neatG .,and have to admit I found the prickly pear amusing.
leo

"Vox Humana" wrote in message news:Tqi0d.974$

It was quite common in the small town where I grew up. All of a sudden,
bathtub shrines started to appear in gardens in the mid 1960s. The fancy
ones had lamp sockets wired into the drain hole to allow for nighttime
illumination.

I visited some friends in Carlsbad NM several years back and the sons
of one of the (Catholic)families in all reverence, made a bathtub
grotto with statue of Mother Mary. it was quite artistically done and
the way it was done was so precisly and artistically done that at
first glance, it simply looked like a wall grotto in a Cathlic church.
They, too, had recessed lights in it so that it lit the interior and
the statue.
Leo

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"Vox Humana" wrote in message news:Tqi0d.974$

It was quite common in the small town where I grew up. All of a sudden,
bathtub shrines started to appear in gardens in the mid 1960s. The fancy
ones had lamp sockets wired into the drain hole to allow for nighttime
illumination.

I visited some friends in Carlsbad NM several years back and the sons
of one of the (Catholic)families in all reverence, made a bathtub
grotto with statue of Mother Mary. it was quite artistically done and
the way it was done was so precisly and artistically done that at
first glance, it simply looked like a wall grotto in a Cathlic church.
They, too, had recessed lights in it so that it lit the interior and
the statue.
Leo

I have to give these people credit for adaptive reuse of discarded goods.

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"Lee" wrote in message
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"Vox Humana" wrote in message news:Tqi0d.974$

It was quite common in the small town where I grew up. All of a sudden,
bathtub shrines started to appear in gardens in the mid 1960s. The fancy
ones had lamp sockets wired into the drain hole to allow for nighttime
illumination.

I visited some friends in Carlsbad NM several years back and the sons
of one of the (Catholic)families in all reverence, made a bathtub
grotto with statue of Mother Mary. it was quite artistically done and
the way it was done was so precisly and artistically done that at
first glance, it simply looked like a wall grotto in a Cathlic church.
They, too, had recessed lights in it so that it lit the interior and
the statue.
Leo

I have to give these people credit for adaptive reuse of discarded goods.

About two years ago, a couple local garden centers had in their statuary
sections recycled bathroom sinks of various kinds to use as planters or
birdbaths. I found this use of vintage sinks appealing, but when I made
noises about finding an old sink for the purpose more cheaply from
someplace like Cap'n Sam's recycled construction, Granny Artemis said it
was just too close to using a toilet as a planter, & she wouldn't have it.


-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com

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"Lee" wrote in message
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"Vox Humana" wrote in message news:Tqi0d.974$

It was quite common in the small town where I grew up. All of a
sudden,
bathtub shrines started to appear in gardens in the mid 1960s. The
fancy
ones had lamp sockets wired into the drain hole to allow for
nighttime
illumination.

I visited some friends in Carlsbad NM several years back and the sons
of one of the (Catholic)families in all reverence, made a bathtub
grotto with statue of Mother Mary. it was quite artistically done and
the way it was done was so precisly and artistically done that at
first glance, it simply looked like a wall grotto in a Cathlic church.
They, too, had recessed lights in it so that it lit the interior and
the statue.
Leo

I have to give these people credit for adaptive reuse of discarded
goods.

About two years ago, a couple local garden centers had in their statuary
sections recycled bathroom sinks of various kinds to use as planters or
birdbaths. I found this use of vintage sinks appealing, but when I made
noises about finding an old sink for the purpose more cheaply from
someplace like Cap'n Sam's recycled construction, Granny Artemis said it
was just too close to using a toilet as a planter, & she wouldn't have it.


It isn't something that I would do either. I have seen old bed frames used
as planters - a literal take on "flower bed." I thought that was less
objectionable. I have a couple of old bentwood chairs that I should put in
the trash, but I have been kicking around the idea planting the seat area
with annuals. Sometimes there is a fine line between clever and
trailer-trash.

(paghat) wrote in message news:paghatSPAM-ME- "Vox Humana" wrote:

I have to give these people credit for adaptive reuse of discarded goods.

About two years ago, a couple local garden centers had in their statuary
sections recycled bathroom sinks of various kinds to use as planters or
birdbaths. I found this use of vintage sinks appealing, but when I made
noises about finding an old sink for the purpose more cheaply from
someplace like Cap'n Sam's recycled construction, Granny Artemis said it
was just too close to using a toilet as a planter, & she wouldn't have it.


-paghat the ratgirl

When one comes to think of it, a diamond is just a rock, but when
cleaned, polished and mounted tastefully, it can be a thing of
beauty.. and a good conversation piece.
I don't have a big diamond, nor a toilet planter, but I do have, on my
coffee table, several pieces of petrified wood, which after 40 years
in the garden, I brought in fearing they would continue degrading in
the garden.

I suppose there are folks who think I am a little, shall we say
"excentric ???" , but that's Ok.. those who know me and know how much
I love the creations of Nature, accept them and do admit they are
interesting and a good "conversation Piece!"
Leo

In article ,
(Lee) wrote:

When one comes to think of it, a diamond is just a rock, but when
cleaned, polished and mounted tastefully, it can be a thing of
beauty.. and a good conversation piece.
I don't have a big diamond, nor a toilet planter, but I do have, on my
coffee table, several pieces of petrified wood, which after 40 years
in the garden, I brought in fearing they would continue degrading in
the garden.

I suppose there are folks who think I am a little, shall we say
"excentric ???" , but that's Ok.. those who know me and know how much
I love the creations of Nature, accept them and do admit they are
interesting and a good "conversation Piece!"
Leo

I have rocks around here that I've had since I was ten years old. Until I
owned this house, it seemed like for one reason or another I was always
moving from one house or apartment to another, & my whole life I've been
lugging around big hunks of rocks that have been used as decorations, as
terrarium or aquarium decorations, as doorstops, & now as garden
ornaments.

And while you may well be eccentric, I don't think it could be from
keeping rocks in the garden or on the coffeetable. There is nothing more
natural than rocks all about the garden. A very few years ago I stopped at
a yard sale & though I didn't find any stuff in the sale items I wanted, I
off-handedly asked if the rocks piled up around a tree were for sale. The
guy said he hadn't given that any thought, but if I came back some other
day when he wasn't busy with a yard sale, he'd consider selling the rocks.

I came back a couple days later & knocked on the door. We walked around
his rock pile & he finally said he wanted a hundred dollars for the whole
pile. I gasped. He misunderstood my gasp & said, "That's a good price.
These were abandoned by one of my tenants, and he ran a rockhound
business. That piece of petrified wood right there is probably worth a
hundred dollars all by itself." I said I hadn't gasped because I thought
it expensive, but because I'd thought I'd only be able to afford a half
dozen rocks. I ended up getting two carloads, including a forty pound
chunk of jasper, lots of huge pieces of petrified wood, hunks of pink
quarts the size of your head, rough streaked marble....super cool rocks.

Some of the smaller specimens now sit all around the house as book-ends &
the like, or decorate potted plants & the porch, have been used in gift
arrangements of rocks-with-plants I've potted for friends' birthdays, some
flat ones made good stepping-stones, & the biggest pieces are all over the
garden in attractive display. That was the best deal I ever had on a pile
of rocks, & they're ever so much superior to garden statuary or anything
artificial.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com

(JJ) wrote in message ...

No not the one inside the house silly.

I mean a defunct one, out in the yard

Somebody has done this, north of Madison Wisconsin on Highway 19.

What to plant in the toilet?
The obvious answer is: a "potted" plant.

Ted Shoemaker