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Author Garden: Sundials Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       I went out today and bought myself a really cool cement pillar to display my sundial on in the garden. Anyone know what to use to adhere the two together?? The sundial is a metal and the pillar is cement. And this is a REALLY dumb question but I assume the dial needs to face north right? I've never had one so who knew? Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       Here's one for you..... Why did the idiot have his sundial floodlit? So he could tell the time at night! BWHahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       That was good Storm!! You know, I too wondered about which way to face the sundial, I have a tiny frog one, and thought the same! Thanks for asking, I hope someone knows!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 write2rellie Dream Gardener Member # 1783 posted                       http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/Earth/Sundial/Sundial-ConstructSimple.html * * * * rellie Plants: 147 | From: bellflower, ca | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Seeded: 24.130.136.119 Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       Thank you Write2....very informative. I will run out there tomorrow and put my stick in the ground. LOL....I am on a quest to find "True North". Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       So...do we have any great carpenter's out there? What can I use to stick my sundial on it's pillar? Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Storm, I have just a little one but I put mine on top of a old bottom of pedestal bird bath that the bird bath part got broken??? Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       I am just afraid of the wind picking it up or someone leaning on it and possibly getting hurt somehow. Maybe some kind of epoxy that is used for swimming pools or boats would work. I will have to look into that. I love your frog idea on your sundial. I take it you love frogs? I put one on the side of my birdbath last year. The birds just ignored him...well...actually they did more than that but you all have imaginations. Let's just say my froggy is spotty now Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Yeah, I love frogs, I have some fellow frog lovers here too, Jillie and Lynne are too!! They're so much fun!!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Yup... Frog sundial here, too I never knew you had to do the pointy-thingy with true north! I just looked at my watch and made sure the shadow matched the time...... * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 64.12.96.71 Jiffymouse guest posted                 hey jillie, that's how i had planned to set mine!! Seeded: 12.77.200.10 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       You all are soooo funny! I don't have a sundial, but there is a huge, elaborate one outside of our local library - it's fairly new - they put it there when they built the library about 5 years ago. I'll try to take a picture of it soon and post it here. Storm ~ there is a glue called E 6000 that comes in a grayish tube and I swear by it!!! I have used it for all sorts of things, and it's held up really well on things that I've had outside year round. It's a one part clear glue that I find here in craft stores like A.C. Moore, Michael's, etc. Last time I checked Home Depot had never heard of it - oh, well... their loss... * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.84.51.43 write2rellie Dream Gardener Member # 1783 posted                       I have to admit, the idea of looking at your watch to match the time NEVER occured to me, but seems much simpler since most of already own one! Raise your hand if you own a compass AND know how to use one? not me... my daughter is looking over my shoulder saying, "do the angel, do the angel..." so for Lesleigh, here goes: * * * * rellie Plants: 147 | From: bellflower, ca | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Seeded: 24.130.136.119 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Rellie, My wee~one loves to stand here and look at those gremalins!!! And he HAS TO IMATATE EACH ONE TO ME...... He goes and shakes his head, he's mad, and he shakes his finger and he says, NO, NO, NO! Or he's HAP~PEEEEEEEEEEE or he'll turn and "try" to wink at me, or he flutters his eyes at the one there on the top right, His favorite one is the waving one, HI~HI It's a blast, I love watching him doing them. It's soooooooooo cute!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 write2rellie Dream Gardener Member # 1783 posted                       LOL Weezie, how cute! How old is he? * * * * rellie Plants: 147 | From: bellflower, ca | Registered: Jan 2004  |  Seeded: 24.130.136.119 rue anemone Super Gardener Member # 1744 posted                       Liquid nails works good and is carrid by Lowe`s. * * * * Plants: 679 | From: IN | Registered: Dec 2003  |  Seeded: 67.29.208.195 Storm Dream Gardener Member # 2079 posted                       Thanks for all your help with this. Well, I gotta be honest here.....I can't wear a watch (alergic) so I bought a sundial. I just can't figure out how to get it in my purse. Plants: 185 | From: Canada | Registered: Mar 2004  |  Seeded: 24.64.223.205 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 205.188.116.72

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