Post by herchenx on Mar 15, 2014 0:12:05 GMT -5
Man, I screwed this thank you all up! Got Jean's handle wrong and typed the wrong mineral! OK I think it is all fixed now!
I PM'd Jean this week to say hi and she said she'd found a book that made her think of me, so she asked for my address.
I gratefully obliged and today when I came home there was a MFRB sitting here with my name on it.
She'd let me know ahead of time it was coming and intimated that there might be something of a vegetable nature in it.
I was excited, but given my personal experience with shipping USPS expected a book covered in guacamole inside the box. I was very pleasantly surprised to find not only the book and the avocados, but also a nice collection of rocks all nicely, carefully wrapped, packed and labeled - and fully intact. In retrospect I should have immediately gone and bought a lottery ticket.
Seriously it was the nicest packing I've seen.
Anyhow, here is a photo of all the great stuff she sent me!
From the left, clockwise:
- stromatolite
- coral
- possible chapenite
- another possible chapenite
- fossilized t-rex testicle
- another fossilized teste
- 4 agates
and in the center some great reading material I am anxious to pore over!
rockpickerforever thank you SO MUCH this was awesome.
My dad went into the hospital this week, and today we found that he is not doing better and will be there for a while. He's having psychological/psychotic issues, his health is always bad but this is the worst mentally we've seen him, so this was a nice reprieve from a heavy week.
Meanwhile Jean is mourning the loss of her own mother and just wanted to be nice to someone else for no other reason than she's just that kind of person.
Folks, we are among some of the best folks in the world.
I PM'd Jean this week to say hi and she said she'd found a book that made her think of me, so she asked for my address.
I gratefully obliged and today when I came home there was a MFRB sitting here with my name on it.
She'd let me know ahead of time it was coming and intimated that there might be something of a vegetable nature in it.
I was excited, but given my personal experience with shipping USPS expected a book covered in guacamole inside the box. I was very pleasantly surprised to find not only the book and the avocados, but also a nice collection of rocks all nicely, carefully wrapped, packed and labeled - and fully intact. In retrospect I should have immediately gone and bought a lottery ticket.
Seriously it was the nicest packing I've seen.
Anyhow, here is a photo of all the great stuff she sent me!
From the left, clockwise:
- stromatolite
- coral
- possible chapenite
- another possible chapenite
- fossilized t-rex testicle
- another fossilized teste
- 4 agates
and in the center some great reading material I am anxious to pore over!
rockpickerforever thank you SO MUCH this was awesome.
My dad went into the hospital this week, and today we found that he is not doing better and will be there for a while. He's having psychological/psychotic issues, his health is always bad but this is the worst mentally we've seen him, so this was a nice reprieve from a heavy week.
Meanwhile Jean is mourning the loss of her own mother and just wanted to be nice to someone else for no other reason than she's just that kind of person.
Folks, we are among some of the best folks in the world.
