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