deedolce
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Post by deedolce on Apr 9, 2013 2:39:35 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE too, but I'm doing testing with the poor kiddies at the time. I would MUCH rather hang out and add to our rock collections and see some magic!!
Um, yeah. Rich is the organized, clothes folded in drawers, label maker (huh?) and makes lists. I'm more of the 'throw clothes over furniture, open random drawer toss in item kind of gal!
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Apr 9, 2013 22:09:12 GMT -5
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Post by helens on Apr 9, 2013 22:12:07 GMT -5
Hrm... so does Snuffy, Mel or Lowell have the biggest stash:)? Good grief, the 3 of you could repopulate all the rocks in Florida by yourselves:).
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Post by gr on Apr 9, 2013 22:22:04 GMT -5
Lowell, I just want to hound yer walkway ;D
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 10, 2013 9:08:52 GMT -5
*L* Lowell, I remember when you just had a little table in a corner with a tumbler, in your garage. You, my friend have got the addiction good now *L*. You know, the next step is a bigger house with more yard . I don't get better, it gets way worse *L*....Mel
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 10, 2013 9:49:45 GMT -5
OMG, we're all rock hoarders!!! Glad my addiction is not so bad, means I still have room to grow. Snuffy, Mel, and Lowell - gadzooks, but you've all got a lot of rocks! While I've got a bunch of rocks, in half a dozen locations, it doesn't even come close to these in terms of amounts. And neat and tidy? Not hardly.
Thanks for posting pics of your affliction addiction. Jean
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 10, 2013 10:56:37 GMT -5
I like Mels idea on the tool box display...I've been wanting to do that for awhile now...I have enough rocks to do it with now....Mostly my fossils..
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billg22
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Post by billg22 on Apr 10, 2013 15:52:42 GMT -5
I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses cat litter boxes. Now I buy cat litter in a bag at Costco.
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Mark K
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Post by Mark K on Apr 12, 2013 16:41:11 GMT -5
Here is a little bit of what I have. This is not including the AZ stuff from this Feb.
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garock
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Post by garock on Apr 12, 2013 17:41:30 GMT -5
I will not dare to post pictures of my "stashes". Rocks in every room, basement full, barn full and back yard full of rocks in milk crates. Seeing such neatness, I'm ahsamed of myself ! ! !
Still Digging inthe Dirt and Breathing Yellow Pollen, Frankie
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Post by Pat on Apr 12, 2013 21:11:09 GMT -5
;D So that's where all the rocks have gone !!!
Going to start buying kitty litter in buckets from now on. Good idea!
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The Dad_Ohs
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Post by The Dad_Ohs on Apr 12, 2013 23:00:15 GMT -5
I'll try and get some photos this weekend but I can't hold a candle to you people whether for the sheer quantity or qualiy of the collections. but since you put your up, might as well do so too.
stay tuned!!
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deedolce
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Post by deedolce on Apr 13, 2013 0:31:36 GMT -5
I'm peanuts compared to the fella's on here. Yes, I feel better about what I thought was my over the top stash! Lol! Lowell and foxtail, I just want to open all those containers and peek inside!! Come on garock, do it. Dad-Ohs, all rock is good rock!!
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 13, 2013 14:41:25 GMT -5
This is just part of my living room pile. More when the snow melts and I can get out to them. --- Yes, that's my right knee in the pic. Took it sitting in my recliner. Dining room rocks.
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Apr 13, 2013 15:06:19 GMT -5
Mel, Yeah...I also remember telling you that I was 'just' going to collect material I picked up myself in the field. You looked at me and said that wouldn't last. Damn prophesy came true! (Of course, letting me loot your backyard before your move didn't help my cause either...) At least I haven't reached this point - which is the sale of a long time dealer from a few years ago. This image is from the the 3rd month of the sale after the barbed wire/bamboo shoots, chunks of rusty-nail laden pallets and other debris were removed. Before the clean up, it was possible to climb across the length of the backyard and never get closer to 3 feet across the ground. It was like the Blues Brothers comment while they drove through the mall - "This place has everything." I picked up 300 pounds of dino bone ($1/lb) among other things - Bruneau, Dugway and Zacatecas geodes, carnelian, wood from 5 multiple locations, apache tears, rhodochrosite ($1 pound), fire agate ($4 pound), quartz crystals, coprolites, brazilians, aztec lace, etc etc etc. I tell you, for $1 a pound, you better fill your garage. including this - if anybody can identify it- that would be great: But more to the point - I think these sales are the way rockhound seeds are spread. Nobody ever gets to the bottom of their pile, and eventually - as it is the natural ending - the owner passes and the next generation invites unsuspecting rockhounds over to disperse the one big pile into a plentitude of small ones - each of these new ones slowly growing into adulthood. It's reproduction through budding! Or...if you are more sci-fi in mind - assimilation (resistance is futile) or maybe they act like the Pod People from the Body Snatchers. You bring home the wrong rock...go to sleep... and you wake up with an addiction and want to bring home more rock.. All I know is that I got it bad...and my wife is a saint for tolerating it. (as for those looking to rockhound or peek inside each - heck....if you are ever in the neighborhood, let me know. I believe what you give away comes back to you.) Lowell
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 13, 2013 15:10:39 GMT -5
LOL Lowell. What you give away multiplies ten fold. Them rocks are worse that rabbits I tell you.
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Apr 13, 2013 16:35:42 GMT -5
I can't seem to be able to picture coupling rocks.....
But it does fit into a term my wife and her associates use out when doing field work.
She's a trained archeologist and when they came across an ordinary stone at a dig, some of her crew would term it a Sex Stone. I asked them once what they meant. They said "Oh, you mean the AFR?" I'd say, "Yeah, is that the Sex Stone, that AFR thing? Is that a term they learned in school? Does it have meaning?" And they all laughed and said it stands for "Another F*ck*ng Rock" Aka a Sex Stone....
And that is how I got schooled out in the field....
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Post by mohs on Apr 13, 2013 16:53:10 GMT -5
Yep!
A miners daughter told me how she & her siblings went to a mine with her Dad. He explained to them how the rocks blocking the entrance of the mine were love stones. He said they specially gathered when a mine as valuables inside.
Then he told his children to move all those foocking rocks! Mohs
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deedolce
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Post by deedolce on Apr 13, 2013 19:28:00 GMT -5
Careful what you offer Lowell, lol!
Yep, I would have spent all the money in the cookie jar for rock deals like that~
Jake, I think you're the first one to have the stash inside your house! It seems like your recliners are strategically placed near rocks. You may be on to something...
I subtly added my last mfb into my stash. I don't the bf will notice.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 13, 2013 20:05:20 GMT -5
LOL. Should I post a pic of my Genie on the breakfast counter ?
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