I got a set of "tenor" pentatonic chimes from a company called Music of the Spheres a few years back for about $350. Absolutely gorgeous sound. One problem I have is finding a good way to mount them in the yard. (So I have them mounted to a 4x4 that was conveniently already attached to a corner of the house -- though a little disturbing when these brusiers bang against the house in a heavy wind!) They need about 8' of vertical distance from hook to bottom of windcatcher on the clapper. I fear they are too heavy, and will generate too much force and torque in a heavy wind for the kinds of hooks I see in the stores, which are designed more for hanging baskets. The only overhanging tree limbs are too high (i.e., big chimes hanging on a 20' cord would make for a deadly pendulum in a 40 mph wind). A tallish arbor might work, though they would bang against the wood and potentially break the latticework, and might twist the arbor in ways it was not designed for. Given that there are several companies out there that make chimes this size and larger, I would expect to find stands made for this purpose, but so far my searches have turned up empty. Has anyone found a good mid-yard mounting solution for their big chimes? Maybe my worries about the "obvious" solutions one sees in garden stores are unwarranted...if anybody has tested them out, please do post! Here is a link that might be useful: Music of the Spheres site

Make sure to tell us how the show went this week-end! Looks like some awesome displays of the crafts you've made:) Thanks ya'll....my sister gave me a bowl of those glass prisms from one of her friends homes on the beach that got destroyed. Today my husband found me a wooden box of what was left of a set of Wm. Rogers & Sons silver plate service for 8, he paid $12 for it. I'm using them to make more wind chimes for this sale. Two weeks ago he found me a box of never used Wm. Rogers silver plate service for 12 in a wood and leather box for $10,we decided to keep it for our holidays, none of the pieces were missing.

What a great idea!!! Will look in my Dad's and Bill's tool sheds. I think I have seen one of those things. I know I have the nails.

I have replanted in the same place many, many times, but I've always waited a year. The one rose that kept coming back had been in the same place for about a hundred years (based on the remembrance of a neighbor in his 90s who had been caught by the paired thorns at the base of each leaf node when he was pushed into the mature rose as a little boy.) It had roots going out fifteen feet into the yard and it kept sprouting RRD sick growth for 18 months after we removed the original bush. Give yourself at least through the rainy period next winter and early spring growth. And watch like a rose hawk. Ann