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Post by miket on Jul 27, 2019 7:18:26 GMT -5
I had some old, ugly white rock in the backyard and decided to replace it with some of the stuff I've collected that was in the garage. It looks way better and I can pretend I'm rock hunting when I go through it again. 😁  |
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Post by greig on Jul 27, 2019 8:15:13 GMT -5
I do the same thing. The nice thing is after they have been in the weather for a while, you tend to see interesting things in them that you didn't notice before. Now, I have to train my daughter not to toss all my rocks into the garden. She cleaned out the garage for her ATV and dirt bike. In the process, she took out about 500 lbs of quality silver ore that I had stored in the back and into the garden it went. I guess I found it once, so can recover it again.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 27, 2019 9:33:24 GMT -5
Where did you say you lived? LOL! Time for a trip to your house with a metal detector.
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Post by miket on Jul 27, 2019 9:57:41 GMT -5
I do the same thing. The nice thing is after they have been in the weather for a while, you tend to see interesting things in them that you didn't notice before. Now, I have to train my daughter not to toss all my rocks into the garden. She cleaned out the garage for her ATV and dirt bike. In the process, she took out about 500 lbs of quality silver ore that I had stored in the back and into the garden it went. I guess I found it once, so can recover it again. Dang. Same thing at my house. I had some help and there's wood, prairie agates and other stuff I picked up to tumble, cab or give away... |
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Post by miket on Jul 27, 2019 9:58:55 GMT -5
Where did you say you lived? LOL! Time for a trip to your house with a metal detector. Sorry, probably no treasure. Not the metal kind, at least! 😏 |
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 27, 2019 10:02:48 GMT -5
Where did you say you lived? LOL! Time for a trip to your house with a metal detector. Sorry, probably no treasure. Not the metal kind, at least! 😏 No, but there is at greig's house!  |
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Post by fernwood on Jul 27, 2019 10:17:18 GMT -5
The rock gardens around my deck are a combo of fossils, jasper, volcanic, granite, schist, and many other rocks. I love how they look after the rain.
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Post by greig on Jul 27, 2019 17:32:11 GMT -5
Where did you say you lived? LOL! Time for a trip to your house with a metal detector. Anytime. ;-) There is also gold to be found in my backyard where I have panned out my concentrates. Sometimes, I am a bit careless. I am better at the hunt, than the keep. |
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Post by Rockindad on Jul 28, 2019 9:19:38 GMT -5
We did something similar 6 or 7 weeks ago. It is my favorite landscaping we have now and is always changing as we pull something out to work on and add newly acquired stuff in. As fernwood said they look especially great after a rain. Al |
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Post by miket on Jul 28, 2019 9:58:17 GMT -5
We did something similar 6 or 7 weeks ago. It is my favorite landscaping we have now and is always changing as we pull something out to work on and add newly acquired stuff in. As fernwood said they look especially great after a rain. Al I think I saw that post if I remember correctly. They do look nice when it rains... |
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Post by drocknut on Aug 13, 2019 9:43:19 GMT -5
I do the same thing. The nice thing is after they have been in the weather for a while, you tend to see interesting things in them that you didn't notice before. Now, I have to train my daughter not to toss all my rocks into the garden. She cleaned out the garage for her ATV and dirt bike. In the process, she took out about 500 lbs of quality silver ore that I had stored in the back and into the garden it went. I guess I found it once, so can recover it again. Oh my, guess it will be like going out to collect it all over again. Adventure awaits. Problem is, where will you put it so she doesn't put it back in the garden again? Hope you have a good spot already picked out. |
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Post by drocknut on Aug 13, 2019 9:48:25 GMT -5
Ah, easy rockhounding close to home, sounds ideal. I do that sometimes around my mom's house where she had rock put in to create a defensible space around the house. She wasn't too keen on my doing that especially when some of the rocks were different colors. She preferred them to be one color...oops, my bad for trying to liven up the place with garden rocks. I did manage to put some of the same colored rocks in the landscaping so she didn't even notice they were from a different place than the one she got them from.
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Post by greig on Aug 14, 2019 13:54:47 GMT -5
I do the same thing. The nice thing is after they have been in the weather for a while, you tend to see interesting things in them that you didn't notice before. Now, I have to train my daughter not to toss all my rocks into the garden. She cleaned out the garage for her ATV and dirt bike. In the process, she took out about 500 lbs of quality silver ore that I had stored in the back and into the garden it went. I guess I found it once, so can recover it again. Oh my, guess it will be like going out to collect it all over again. Adventure awaits. Problem is, where will you put it so she doesn't put it back in the garden again? Hope you have a good spot already picked out. I put some really big silver rocks over my back fence onto my place. They were 100-200 lbs each. I am on the side of a hill, so it would be easy to put them into a wheel barrel and take them down to the house, rather than up the 50 stairs to the house from the driveway. Well, looking over to the neighbour to the side, I am guessing that she took a few for her garden and didn't think that I would notice. I respect that she could lift them. I guess I will have to have a chat about how they rolled there in the wind or maybe a really big squirrel? I guess the point is, leave them long enough is a spot and they grow legs. |
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Post by drocknut on Aug 14, 2019 14:38:26 GMT -5
It was probably the squirrels that moved them. They are sneeky buggars...lol
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