Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

The two of us dragged that queen sized mechanical bed upstairs. Phew. Hope to never have to move that again.

Did you get any rest Cap?

I went to bed last night around two. Don't expect more kids for at least a week. Glad i got the door on the last pen. Now to get chicken wire up over the cattle panels. Shouldn't take too long once i get the roll of wire into the Mule and up near the barn. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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.

I always like getting late cards (and presents!). It extends the joy of the holiday, for me.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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

Oh man! I hope she gets it turned on soon, Granny!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Watching Polar Express with company. Back later.

 

[Cynthia12]

@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!

Speaking of fossils, guess what can be found here in abundance? Coprolite..(dino poop).

 

[Granny Hatchet]

your holding dino doo doo? Hahahahaaa Cool

 

[pertnear09]

Speaking of fossils, guess what can be found here in abundance? Coprolite..(dino poop). View attachment 2935984View attachment 2935986

Doesn't it still stink?
Edit to add, I hate spell check or word select or what ever you call it.

 

[microchick]

I had that on my Christmas list, Cynthia! I tell ya I GOT to get to Utah some day!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I had that on my Christmas list, Cynthia! I tell ya I GOT to get to Utah some day!

Bahahaaa I got some doggy nuggets you can have. You just have to wait a few years!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I bet Robert would like that too. Forget the coal in his stocking.. hahahaa