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Post by snowmom on Jul 6, 2014 7:41:06 GMT -5
Yesterday we took a guest to one of the local light houses. I roamed the beach as usual and came up with a great big rock which I couldn't live without. Alas, it was quite large and I rolled it over, picked it up and decided it had to be a leaverite because it was beyond my capacity to lift and carry. Let me tell you here my spouse does not share my enthusiasm for rocks and is sort of embarrassed when I load my pockets or carry rocks around when he is on a public beach with me. I showed him the rock when he came down to the shore and he said uh huh with that glazed look in his eyes the way uninterested people do. Then he went and climbed the light house tower. I stayed where I was, picking rocks. Found a few smaller ones worth taking home. but was a bit anxious over leaving that big beauty behind. When it came time to leave, dear husband asked if I really really wanted that rock, and I said yes. I would not have asked him to carry it for me, but he picked it up and took it to the car without a word. If you knew his shy nature and how embarrassing this was for him to do (publicly cart a huge rock to his car) you would appreciate how hard this was for him to do and how generous and giving his gesture was. He still loves me in spite of the rocks in my head!!!! Here is the wonderful rock he carted back for me. I believe it is verde antique (serpentine breccia). I find many smaller than fist size pieces of this, but this is the first really big one I have seen here.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 6, 2014 7:56:49 GMT -5
Nice boulder and great color!
Like your husband, my wife does not exactly share my enthusiasm for rockounding. She has especially commented on how I seem to hound the most "Godawful" places on Earth. I think the icing on the cake was when I took her to hound palm root behind the Yermo, CA city dump. Think it added insult to injury when she was relieving herself behind a bush and found a huge hunk of red palm bog ( rocks show their color when wet ya know) which I refused to leave. So, we had to wrap the boulder she peed on in a tarp so we could sling it between us and carry it back to the truck. Her embarassed comment, after the ewwww! was she thought it looked like we were carrying a body away from the dump and that most normal folks bring junk to the dump, not carry it away. Believe that was the last time I ever got her to go out there with me *L*. Funny thing is though, she likes to tell the story so much that she became attached to the boulder and had me move it clear back here to Texas and it's sitting in her garden right now *L*....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 8:16:31 GMT -5
Great stories. Makes this hobby just that more interesting. Jim
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jul 6, 2014 9:05:25 GMT -5
Well, you've got to admit Mel, that it does make for a great tale!!
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 6, 2014 9:24:06 GMT -5
It's great that your hubby cares for you to do these things...Thumbs up My wife is just starting to like my hounding,but still won't go fossil hunting with me,just stays in the car with a good book! LOL (Hates snakes).. It use to embarrass her when we headed to the beaches here and I would take my bucket,knapsack and rock picker with me,she now helps me carry stuff... PS: she does have her secret stash of fossils from the beach and pretty rocks too..Plus geodes.. Thank God for spouses!!!! Thumbs up Great story D...............
PS: that's going to make some killer slabs with the colors it's going to bring out...
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Post by manofglass on Jul 6, 2014 9:57:36 GMT -5
Snowmom your saw is a little to small for that rock
Walt
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Post by donkeyrokman on Jul 6, 2014 10:42:45 GMT -5
Now I know to come here for my morning chuckle. Great stories!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 23:20:22 GMT -5
Verde antique is a serpentine marble that comes from the Verde antique quarry here in California.
You piece maybe similar but it did not come from the correct quarry to have that name.
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Post by snowmom on Jul 7, 2014 5:31:04 GMT -5
Shotgunner, I got the name of the stuff from a book on Michigan rocks and minerals, and it says it was mined in the UP and very sought after. Book states it was also mined in Roman times( Italy) and used extensively. It may be a general name for the stuff unless the mine you refer to has patented it since... ( named verde antique the same way one mine up here is called calcite mine?) One of the things I find very confusing about the rock world is that there are so many "common" names used interchangeably for the same stuff, and also one name is sometimes applied maybe regionally to very different stuff. For a newbie nomenclature is very difficult to sort out!
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Post by lparker on Jul 7, 2014 7:35:49 GMT -5
"Funny thing is though, she likes to tell the story so much that she became attached to the boulder and had me move it clear back here to Texas and it's sitting in her garden right now *L*....Mel" Well, she did "mark" it first Lee #1
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 7, 2014 12:34:32 GMT -5
That is just about the sweetest! You sure got a keeper- the rock and the DH. My DH doesn't really share my passion, but I like to think he'd do the same for me.
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Post by quartz on Jul 8, 2014 0:01:48 GMT -5
Great stories, thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 22:11:37 GMT -5
Shotgunner, I got the name of the stuff from a book on Michigan rocks and minerals, and it says it was mined in the UP and very sought after. Book states it was also mined in Roman times( Italy) and used extensively. It may be a general name for the stuff unless the mine you refer to has patented it since... ( named verde antique the same way one mine up here is called calcite mine?) One of the things I find very confusing about the rock world is that there are so many "common" names used interchangeably for the same stuff, and also one name is sometimes applied maybe regionally to very different stuff. For a newbie nomenclature is very difficult to sort out! huh... Thanks for new knowledge!!
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