so: how's the little asteriod belt coming along?

Settling in quite nicely, thank you very much.

After the generous, soaking, refreshing rains of the weekend, I have finally started 'planting rocks' out in the bed where I plan to use them as a fence/border between lawn and perrenial bed.  Had to wait for rain (or water the dirt) to get the clay soft enough to dig. Got started today with the trench that the rocks will stand up in, jammed together, on edge to form a barrier so the grass will not invade the bloomers. It was interesting as they started fitting together like ill-shaped puzzle pieces that:

There are more rocks than I thought, so there are already some extras, now that they are practicing good posture and properly positioned. Which is odd, since when we took them off the back of the truck, piece by piece, one or two at the time, and laid them out end to end, along a line, in the row like they would go when they edged along the beds - it looked like not enough????

And:

There is a lot of extra dirt.It seems like if you dig a hole, and put a large rock in it, that the rock would weight the dirt down enough that you could put what came out back in and it would come out even? Does it really have something to do with the phase of the moon, like the Farmer's Almanac would have us think? It is surprising that there is so much that did not fit, when thinking of all those times I watched my dad dig holes and put something in it, a bush or potted plant, and pack the dirt back in around the shrub, then after watering, have the soil sink down, compacting so that more was needed to bring it back up to ground level..

The little asteriod belt is coming along quite nicely... it looks like about 1/4 of the line of rocks is doing what they were instructed to do. Hopefully, while the earth is still damp and dig-able, the rest will follow along in the next couple of days, in proper formation, following the lead of the one who went before in an orderly manner.