Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

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.

Rockhounding? That's my newest hobby! Getting a tumbler for my birthday. I was out a couple days ago shoveling sand and rocks out of the river and looking for arrowheads at the same time. I went mining at Emeral Hollow in Hiddenite, NC. I am having loads of fun and also gotten back into ceramics.

 

[microchick]

Welcome back! That does sound very chaotic! Hello, I am cherrynberry, but a lot of people call me Cherry. I do like it when my friends call me that. I am fairly new to Granny's thread, but I love it here! Granny and all the other regulars are really nice people and I am honored to be apart of this group.

Thanks, Cherry. Folks generally call me Micro or Becky. I popped in over the summer months here and was on last year towards the end of the year a lot.

Lots and lots and lots of really super people here at Granny's place. Some of them hang out on the Old Folks Home also so I see them here and there.

@CapricornFarm OMG! I love that I love that I love that. I'm thinking of buying a 25 pound of clay. I got an ad from Walmart saying they have it for 22$ and changed. Me need to get hands dirty!

I need a kiln!

I also plan to ask the neighbors if I can go rock hunting in their stream bed that separates our property from theirs. DH got me a tumbler last Christmas. I'm just getting around to identifying and mounting the Madagascar stones he got for me to tumble.

Brace yourself. It took me 6 months to get them all tumbled. I'll take some pics later when I get them all ID'ed and mounted.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[CapricornFarm]

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Thanks, Cherry. Folks generally call me Micro or Becky. I popped in over the summer months here and was on last year towards the end of the year a lot.

Lots and lots and lots of really super people here at Granny's place. Some of them hang out on the Old Folks Home also so I see them here and there.

@CapricornFarm OMG! I love that I love that I love that. I'm thinking of buying a 25 pound of clay. I got an ad from Walmart saying they have it for 22$ and changed. Me need to get hands dirty!

I need a kiln!

I also plan to ask the neighbors if I can go rock hunting in their stream bed that separates our property from theirs. DH got me a tumbler last Christmas. I'm just getting around to identifying and mounting the Madagascar stones he got for me to tumble.

Brace yourself. It took me 6 months to get them all tumbled. I'll take some pics later when I get them all ID'ed and mounted.

I am taking classes, but i just do my own thing. They fire my stuff, and i get to hang around Wednesday nights and make stuff. Hubby plans to have a studio built for me but the construction crews are very busy!
Yeah, tumbling is a slow process. Looking forward to trying it though. We live on the Pigg River and there are a lot of rocks down there. The banks are pretty steep, but i found a good place to dig up sand and stones, and look them over. I was just scrubbing some rocks in the sink. Hubby not impressed. Good grief, they have been sitting out in the rainshowers for weeks, not all that dirty.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks, Cherry. Folks generally call me Micro or Becky. I popped in over the summer months here and was on last year towards the end of the year a lot.

Lots and lots and lots of really super people here at Granny's place. Some of them hang out on the Old Folks Home also so I see them here and there.

@CapricornFarm OMG! I love that I love that I love that. I'm thinking of buying a 25 pound of clay. I got an ad from Walmart saying they have it for 22$ and changed. Me need to get hands dirty!

I need a kiln!

I also plan to ask the neighbors if I can go rock hunting in their stream bed that separates our property from theirs. DH got me a tumbler last Christmas. I'm just getting around to identifying and mounting the Madagascar stones he got for me to tumble.

Brace yourself. It took me 6 months to get them all tumbled. I'll take some pics later when I get them all ID'ed and mounted.

My daughter and son in law do this. There are many fun places to go to in Utah. She has sooo many rocks. I just had her fill a vase for me with some pretty o es that had been tumbled. She always has a tumbler going. I'll find photos of some of hers.

 

[Cynthia12]

Twist..got your card. Thank you! Warm fuzzies..

 

[Cynthia12]

I think I've shared some of her photos, but here's a bunch of nice ones. There are photos of the areas they go to, some have wild horses living there. I would love to see them. Then photos of some rocks before washing and tumbling. Then as she says..here are some of Utah's prettys. She wants to take a class on wiring, to make jewelry. Do you see the bunny in the fourth photo?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[microchick]

@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!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I think I've shared some of her photos, but here's a bunch of nice ones. There are photos of the areas they go to, some have wild horses living there. I would love to see them. Then photos of some rocks before washing and tumbling. Then as she says..here are some of Utah's prettys. She wants to take a class on wiring, to make jewelry. Do you see the bunny in the fourth photo? View attachment 2935810View attachment 2935811View attachment 2935812View attachment 2935813View attachment 2935814View attachment 2935815View attachment 2935816View attachment 2935817View attachment 2935818View attachment 2935819View attachment 2935820View attachment 2935821View attachment 2935822View attachment 2935823View attachment 2935824View attachment 2935825

Now i want to go there! Beautiful rocks. Yes, the bunny is in the dark space between the 2 big rocks.