earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 20, 2005 23:00:44 GMT -5
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 21, 2005 8:52:13 GMT -5
Those are some beautiful pieces. Thanks for sharing.
Tami
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Post by Cher on Feb 21, 2005 9:28:54 GMT -5
Ooooo, Love the pink black and green, that would be a pretty batch if it could be tumbled together. Sorry I have no tips at all on that stuff.
Ok, I'll bite, what you talkin about? ;D
Cher
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earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 21, 2005 10:06:30 GMT -5
When we went up to the Gem shop, and met Karen, we started talking and I mentioned I also built a pond in the back yard and she got real excited and told me she wanted one with a stream flowing to the main pond, but didn't know who to talk to about it. So I'm hoping to get her into ponding. I know this is a rock forum and hope I don't get into trouble, but here is a pic of mine.   |
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Post by krazydiamond on Feb 21, 2005 10:35:55 GMT -5
nice rock! what is the bottom one? looks like some sort of picture jasper.
wish i had a rock shop down the road!
KD
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 21, 2005 11:17:25 GMT -5
I saw rocks around those ponds so there you go!
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earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 21, 2005 11:51:31 GMT -5
The pic. of the rock, on the bottom is arroyo pic. jasper.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 21, 2005 15:29:12 GMT -5
i have attemped to respond to this 3 or 4 times and somehow keep getting distracted. i searched on basalt and the most i can find is that it's a lava rock, 7 on moh, that it's igneous. can you tumble igneous rocks?
kim
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earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 21, 2005 20:39:53 GMT -5
I don't know why I can't. Never have tried to before.
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deepsouth
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Post by deepsouth on Feb 22, 2005 3:18:06 GMT -5
Nice pics earth,
Love your pond too I put plenty rejects rocks in my manmade stream haha. Yes I do have a pond too , just a wee bit bigger than the one in your foto.
I stole some bits of Basalt from a dutch dyke ...pardon the hole... and tumbled them . did them no good . and would not shine.
Jack
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Feb 22, 2005 8:50:00 GMT -5
Hey,
Looks like a nice variety of stone!
John
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Post by stefan on Feb 22, 2005 11:29:47 GMT -5
Basalt can be tricky- depends on how "glassy" it is- That stuff looks pretty glassy to me so it should take a shine!
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Post by stoner on Feb 23, 2005 1:32:51 GMT -5
Hey edog. You got some nice looking rough there. Nice pond too. Maybe you should build the pond for the rock shop people and ask to be paid in rough rock.  Ed |
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 23, 2005 8:37:34 GMT -5
Your picture of the pink opal looks like rose quartz, it also looks like a large rock that my mother picked up somewhere that now has it in the front flower bed.
Tami
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earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 23, 2005 18:48:31 GMT -5
I was thinking the same thing for helping with a pond.
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Post by cookie3rocks on Feb 23, 2005 19:12:56 GMT -5
Back in TX I had 2 above ground ponds and one below ground. 2 waterfalls. 12 Koi and about 150 goldfish. When we dug the pond (my late husband assured me it would just be a shallow "bog pond" for plants, it was 4 feet deep) we threw in 4 large goldfish and within the hour, they were spawning up a storm. That's how I ended up with 150 of them. I only know how many because a local Pet Smart offered me $1 a piece for what they got out of the pond. (I had to sell all the fish after my husband passed and I needed to move). They were even suprised at how many there were in this little 6"x3'x4' pond. The Koi were such a joy, 2 of them would eat out of my hand. One my husband liked to pick up occationaly. I hated that and thought it was cruel untill he showed me how it would come the top of the pond and more or less "present" it's self to be briefly held. I think that's one of the few things I miss about living there. How I do go on  cookie |
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Post by cookie3rocks on Feb 23, 2005 19:52:25 GMT -5
I used to paint. My babies, Koto and Glitter  cookie |
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earthdog
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Post by earthdog on Feb 23, 2005 21:44:18 GMT -5
Those are nice. Sorry to hear about your husband.
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Post by chassroc on Feb 24, 2005 13:03:12 GMT -5
Never tumbled Opal before; Pink Opal is Opal, isn't it? That Basalt looks just like obsidian, except for the white on the right side, I'd imagine it has similar characteristics. Nice Pond, Gotta work on the shine of the surrounding stones, ha ha ;D
Chrles
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