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Dooley's leisure time




Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:20 am

Yesterday we went to take some pictures which I loaded to photo bucket today. You can see how I spend some of my leisure time.



I've been looking for and finding rocks since I was little. Arizona is a great place to find neat rocks. I'm not a rockhound in the sense that I collect rocks or do polishing or anything like that. In Wisconsin we lived along Lake Michigan and the water polished rocks and glass and washed them up on shore. I picked up quartz yesterday. No gold though a lot of quartz ore does have gold in it. I just pick up rocks that are interesting or have odd shapes. I have one I picked up a few years ago that looks like it has rope or cord wrapped around it. It was in the water so I guess the water must have ate away at it to make it look that way. I picked up several pieces of layered rock. That's sediment build up I think. Over many years, decades or centuries. I just like rocks I guess. Dooley


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glendann wrote on Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:31 am:


I love rocks Dooley .Everyone makes fum of me in Montana because I have my eyes out for small ones there so I can fly back with them.But rocks just fasinate me .We have lots of petrified wood here in Texas .I do love that too.I wish I was there with you to go look also.




 

Gardenstew wrote on Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:50 am:


Rock on Dooley! My mother does this, and the odd rock will catch my eye as well. Guess I've inherited it.




pondlady wrote on Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:27 pm:


Dooley, keep picking up those rocks and you will qualify as a weight lifter. After 18 years of building ponds, I could enter a competition.




 

wannabe wrote on Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:45 am:


Dooley we have a stone with a groove around it. The man at the state museum says it was an indian "hatchet". Maybe that is what you have.




 

dooley wrote on Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:05 am:


No, it's different. It looks like it has a rope around it and it's too big to be a tool. It's layers of quartz in a much softer rock. Water in the river wore away the soft rock over time leaving ropes of quartz. Dooley




 

glendann wrote on Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:50 pm:


I bet its neat to see.





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