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Post by miket on Feb 4, 2019 10:37:00 GMT -5
My son and I took advantage of the weather Saturday (mid 50's) to get out and hunt. Paying for it today with 3 degrees! Thought I'd just share a few pics. We found our new rock hunting house (haha) , good thing he remodels!  It even has it's own barn.  Here's a spot we checked...  And finally an agate. We found an awful lot of these- I don't think they're Fairburns- but I don't know what you would call agates with all of these patterns. Most people around here just call them signers. Either way, it's going into the tumbler. Maybe there's more to see underneath... Thanks for looking.  |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 4, 2019 11:20:35 GMT -5
Awesome photos...… Whenever I see an old building, I see the old weather wood and get ideas on what I could make with that material...
Nice agate too.... Thanks for sharing!
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Post by fernwood on Feb 4, 2019 12:51:24 GMT -5
Like the buildings and the agate.
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Post by miket on Feb 4, 2019 13:06:12 GMT -5
fossilman and fernwoodThanks! I love old abandoned buildings out in the middle of nowhere. Whenever I see them I wonder who lived there, what it was like living there, when it was built, etc.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 5, 2019 10:17:25 GMT -5
I really love old buildings, too. I think like fossilman and want to grab some pieces of wood. I also like to wonder who lived there and what the place was like before it was abandoned. My dad's family came to the US and first settled in Nebraska. I like to imagine that they lived a lot like that. He began with a small house and added onto to it to accommodate his growing family. He was sent from Germany to minister to the German speaking folks on the Plains in the mid 1800's. I like to visit old forts and battlegrounds, too. There's a lot of them around here, too, with Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown just an hour away. There are lots of old military sites here, too. One is Fort Monroe in Hampton. I used to love going there. It isn't the same anymore. It used to be an army base, but is now private. The fort was used during the Civil War. Very interesting place. You can FEEL the history there. Jefferson Davis was a prisoner there. |
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Post by miket on Feb 5, 2019 11:33:42 GMT -5
I really love old buildings, too. I think like fossilman and want to grab some pieces of wood. I also like to wonder who lived there and what the place was like before it was abandoned. My dad's family came to the US and first settled in Nebraska. I like to imagine that they lived a lot like that. He began with a small house and added onto to it to accommodate his growing family. He was sent from Germany to minister to the German speaking folks on the Plains in the mid 1800's. I like to visit old forts and battlegrounds, too. There's a lot of them around here, too, with Yorktown, Williamsburg and Jamestown just an hour away. There are lots of old military sites here, too. One is Fort Monroe in Hampton. I used to love going there. It isn't the same anymore. It used to be an army base, but is now private. The fort was used during the Civil War. Very interesting place. You can FEEL the history there. Jefferson Davis was a prisoner there. Nice, thanks for sharing that story. I like learning about my ancestors, mine were mostly Quakers who came over from England. German ancestry on my Mom's side. I mentioned before that I got to go to D.C. and Virginia with my daughter's class- I really need to get back that way some day. You're right, you can feel the history there. You can here on the plains, too. There's a place called Fort Robinson about 25 miles from here, the Lakota war chief Crazy Horse was imprisoned there and it's where he eventually died. There's still soldier's barracks and all of the buildings from the 1800's. Pretty interesting stuff. |
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Post by mohs on Feb 5, 2019 20:27:44 GMT -5
I like that rise, out on the plains, behind the barn
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Post by miket on Feb 6, 2019 12:41:12 GMT -5
I like that rise, out on the plains, behind the barn Yessir. A lot of people may not find the plains much to look at but I think it's beautiful out there, even in the winter when everything is brown- or white.  Very peaceful and calming being out there. |
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