Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

Im doing ok Becky, I have been diagnosed with the same thing that made you so ill. Its no fun when it flairs.

 

[CapricornFarm]

@Cynthia12 if my husband took me there he would never get me to leave the rock fields. He got me a 159,000 year old sand dollar fossil from Utah for Christmas this year. It's sitting here in front of my computer monitor. He asked me when I was going to put it in my rock cabinet and I told him when I got tired of staring at it. It's beautiful. Will probably never happen.

Plus I just discovered Dugway Geodes. I GOTS to get me one of them.

@CapricornFarm, I've been collecting lots of quartz crystals around the property. Missouri is kind of wanting in the northern part of the state for rocking. But there are lots of quartz crystals around from the chert that is here. The whole of northern Missouri used to be a salt water sea that left behind lots of shell and coral fossils in the rock. Every time the local quarry bring in gravel for the driveway I get first dibs at digging through it looking for fossils and quartz crystals.

I'm trying to get enough quartz crystals collected to run the tumbler. It's not worth the wattage to just do a partial load in one given the number of hours you have to run it.

Best advice? Buy a lot of belts when you get your tumbler. They break regularly. Also if you buy rocks on line to tumble, watch the quality. I got four pound of Madagascar stones. Beautiful colors but they don't hold up when they are tumbled and break. When you look at them with a light behind them you can see hairline fractures.

I'm wanting to try to do some jewelry wrapping like perchie.girl used to do. Another hobby awaits me! LOL

Miss you Perchie!

Hey @Granny Hatchet How ya doin, girl!? Behaving yourself? My alyssum bloomed through fall for me! It stayed beautiful too!

I have read you need to tumble all rocks on the lowest setting to avoid damaging the rocks. Good to have belts on hand.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Did you get any rest Cap?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hi Everyone! I'm baaaaaccccckkkkk!

Sorry I haven't been around much. The past three months have been a bit bizarre for me. In September I wound up in the ER due to severe abdominal pain that was so severe my husband found me on the bathroom floor vomiting. I couldn't stand. It finally eased and then I spent some memorable time on the Porcelain Thrown that ended with my having an intestinal bleed. They did a CT scan of my abdomen and told me I had gastritis and colitis but it turned out to be more than that. Referral to a GI specialist, colonoscopy and endoscopy of my stomach later and I learned that the problem was Diverticulitis, diverticular colic and yep, still have the gastritis. I've had to change my diet completely which i can deal with. The problem is chronic so my goal is prevent further flares.

The weird thing is that the diverticulitis was causing my back pain that nobody could figure out. So my back is better. It will never be great but better I can live with.

But the big thing is that this caused me to step back and hit the reset button. God was good. He gave me a diagnosis that didn't include the big C word. It's up to me now to make sure I do as the doctors tell me.

So I haven't been on the forum as much. I'm relaxing more. I'm enjoying my flock which is doing very well and make me smile every day. I'm spending more time on other hobbies that I enjoy, everything from rockhounding to art and most of all spending more time with my husband and our pets and basically making the most out of every day.

Life is good.

Welcome back!
You have been missed!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Jane and Twist ... Thank you for the lovely cards! Merry Christmas!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

man......... SD just called balling her eyes out. They shut her electric off and she wont have any money til thursday and she thinks they wont turn it back on til after Christmas. She was sitting out in her car so she could use her phone. All over $151.00

 

[microchick]

I have read you need to tumble all rocks on the lowest setting to avoid damaging the rocks. Good to have belts on hand.

Mine only has one setting for speed but it doesn't seem to turn that fast. Maybe I need to put some small pebbles in with it to cushion my rough rocks a bit. But even before I put these in the tumbler you could see fine fractures in them so Idunno.

Welcome back!
You have been missed!

Awwwwww, thank you Blue, that's very sweet of you to say. I've been around, just not very much. Now that the testing is over and the doctor has ran out of openings to shove cameras into life will hopefully get back to the new norm.

Thank God, NO cancer. Prayers are answered.

man......... SD just called balling her eyes out. They shut her electric off and she wont have any money til thursday and she thinks they wont turn it back on til after Christmas. She was sitting out in her car so she could use her phone. All over $151.00

Before Christmas? Man, that is just Harsh. Boo on them. That's on the same level as telling somebody they are laid off on Christmas Eve. If she can get the money to them on the 24th she should demand it be turned back on immediately being that it is Christmas.

Maybe......just drop a hint that the newspaper would be interested in a story about local scrooges turning off the power before Christmas....just sayin...

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I thought that myself Becky, it would serve them right.

 

[pertnear09]

Well, I got a Christmas card from Twist today. Thank you Twist and merry Christmas.
I got my cards in the mail Monday morning. Hoping that wasn't too late.

 

[pertnear09]

Sort about your SD Granny. That really bites.