Post by RWA3006 on Feb 23, 2024 18:46:46 GMT -5
So, I have this problem. I like to collect stuff and my wife and friends make comments and they use words like obsession, lunatic, compulsive, hoarder, weirdo.
The latest episode started last summer when I was spending days sorting and loading some of my rock inventory into steel drums and a flock of magpies landed nearby and started eying my grape vines. I admired their iridescent feathers while they were thieving my grapes and it somehow got me thinking I probably had florescent rocks in my inventory and I ought to find my cheapo flashlight/blacklight and look them over when it got dark.
Later that night I lit up the rock piles with the light and I was shocked to see that I had more florescent rocks than I thought. It inspired me to get a real UV light and take a more serious look. A couple weeks later I got my light and returned to the rocks in the dark. I was astounded at what I saw and within a few minutes I hatched a plan to fill an oak bookshelf with these beauties down in my basement at the end of a dark hallway. The idea was to be able to enjoy the light show by closing a couple of doors, flipping the light switch off and turning on the new UV light.
After a couple of nights hunting for my best specimens and lugging them into the basement in five gallon buckets I had a display far better than I thought I could muster. Now I'm thinking of more display shelves and more specimens while the wife is thinking of replacing me. It's getting out of control but I'm actually a good person.
The latest episode started last summer when I was spending days sorting and loading some of my rock inventory into steel drums and a flock of magpies landed nearby and started eying my grape vines. I admired their iridescent feathers while they were thieving my grapes and it somehow got me thinking I probably had florescent rocks in my inventory and I ought to find my cheapo flashlight/blacklight and look them over when it got dark.
Later that night I lit up the rock piles with the light and I was shocked to see that I had more florescent rocks than I thought. It inspired me to get a real UV light and take a more serious look. A couple weeks later I got my light and returned to the rocks in the dark. I was astounded at what I saw and within a few minutes I hatched a plan to fill an oak bookshelf with these beauties down in my basement at the end of a dark hallway. The idea was to be able to enjoy the light show by closing a couple of doors, flipping the light switch off and turning on the new UV light.
After a couple of nights hunting for my best specimens and lugging them into the basement in five gallon buckets I had a display far better than I thought I could muster. Now I'm thinking of more display shelves and more specimens while the wife is thinking of replacing me. It's getting out of control but I'm actually a good person.
