Wish I had stumbled upon this thread earlier! 
I have been rock hounding since I was 7 years old and my parents moved to a house that set above a stream that was rock and fossil rich. They even found a whole mammoth skeleton not far from where the farm was years after we moved from there.
This past Christmas my husband gave me a tumbler and a bag of Madagascar rough semiprecious gemstones to play with. Talk about being in hog heaven!
I love the t-shirt that has the inscription 'just one more rock!'
Where we live now was once a salt sea so while there are fossils, most of them are the type you see in sand stone and shale like shells and the like. I have found some interesting rocks on our farm though. Lots of granite.
On our first wedding anniversary my husband asked me what I would like as a gift. I said a rock. To my surprise, here came a flat bed truck on our anniversary along with a skid steer that proceeded to unload a huge blue granite rock that has a beautiful vein of pink/white through it. When we retired and sold our home in IL I had the agent write up in the contract. Large Granite boulder does not stay with property. And it didn't. We managed to get it loaded on our trailer and it now sets by our door.
Some of my collection:
I found two stones like the one above in a stream bed near our home here in MO. To date I haven't been able to identify what they are in any book I have nor on line.
Some of the stones I just finished tumbling. White quartz, ambers, I think lace amethyst, and some geodes and miscellaneous sparkly things, LOL.
Orange calcite on the bottom along with geodes and a blue amber that my DH got for me as a gift. There are also amethysts in this case.
Nor have I been able to identify this stone that I found in a box of rocks I 'unearthed' at a pawn shop.
I have been rock hounding since I was 7 years old and my parents moved to a house that set above a stream that was rock and fossil rich. They even found a whole mammoth skeleton not far from where the farm was years after we moved from there.
This past Christmas my husband gave me a tumbler and a bag of Madagascar rough semiprecious gemstones to play with. Talk about being in hog heaven!
I love the t-shirt that has the inscription 'just one more rock!'
Where we live now was once a salt sea so while there are fossils, most of them are the type you see in sand stone and shale like shells and the like. I have found some interesting rocks on our farm though. Lots of granite.
On our first wedding anniversary my husband asked me what I would like as a gift. I said a rock. To my surprise, here came a flat bed truck on our anniversary along with a skid steer that proceeded to unload a huge blue granite rock that has a beautiful vein of pink/white through it. When we retired and sold our home in IL I had the agent write up in the contract. Large Granite boulder does not stay with property. And it didn't. We managed to get it loaded on our trailer and it now sets by our door.
Some of my collection:
I found two stones like the one above in a stream bed near our home here in MO. To date I haven't been able to identify what they are in any book I have nor on line.
Some of the stones I just finished tumbling. White quartz, ambers, I think lace amethyst, and some geodes and miscellaneous sparkly things, LOL.
Orange calcite on the bottom along with geodes and a blue amber that my DH got for me as a gift. There are also amethysts in this case.
Nor have I been able to identify this stone that I found in a box of rocks I 'unearthed' at a pawn shop.
Your husband sounds like a definite keeper! What a wonderful story!
