Snow in New Jersey

Sylvia Woodman wrote: We don't have New England-style snow but we do have enough to fill a wheelbarrow.

Boost/launch, to see pet dinosaur

I don't kow what to call this. They used it to get over a wall, but didn't need it to get back.

It's Kid Snippets' "Pet Dinosaur." It's not one of the best. Click the image to see it, but if you want to see someone coming to the door asking about odd pets, the best one is this (called "Salesman"):

Jack-o'-Lantern Ride

So you make this jack-o'-lantern, and that's so exciting you take him for a wheelbarrow ride, right?

Janine Davies wrote: My son took his finished Jack o lantern for a ride in his red wheelbarrow today. Seems he shares your love of wheelbarrows. (West Molesey, Surrey, UK)

Wheelbarrow as a chair

Alicia Gonzalez sent this and wrote, "Have You seen this idea before?...I never thought of using it as a chair!!"

I followed the link from the photo above, and someone named Claire Lai had written "I love this lady, she spent most of her life building a theatre on the side of a cliff in Cornwall, by hand with salvaged materials and cement. It is the Minack theatre and she well and truly earned her rest in the wheelbarrow."

But my response to Alicia was: "I hadn't. There are some uncomforable looking archeologist-naps, in a photo in a museum in England. http://wheelbarrowthings.blogspot.com/2013/07/fishbourne.html later note: More comfortably, Gigi Polikowsky resting

Stephanie Marr added: "The woman in the photo is Rowena Cade. She spent quite a bit of time around wheelbarrows :) http://www.minack.com/history.htm

Fishbourne excavation, 1960's

Fishbourne Roman Palace has a recent-ish wheelbarrow history.

In the display, which is largely about the discovery, excavation and preservation of the site, there is a photo of lots of archeologists and volunteers with wheelbarrows. In the display there is some graphic art of a man using a wheelbarrow, and another of some of the workers resting (not very comfortably, unless they were really tired and the metal was cool).

That last photo is fun. I've brought it here the day I was there, with a story about wheelbarrows and my dad. Fishbourne, July 17, 2013.