Eldred_Woodcock wrote:
... Opportunity comes to those who knock ...
... others off. The double chainsaw bunny is available for hire
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Little bunny, will ye protect COW?
too many meat eaters around here…
COW needs SECURITY!
Jun 25, 2024
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#104
Not much of the outdoors here but here's a blocked sunrise at a beach 4.5km or a brisk 45mins walk from my home. Just taken about an hour ago.
Sweet. Sunrise is always magical. But it's bedtime. G'night.
Just went rock climbing with some of my friends in the Ozarks. Good to have a few days off of the phone and enjoying the nature.
How are your hands? I worked with a guy back in the 1980s that rock climbed. His hands were often scratched and battered. He explained that rock climbers learn how to position their hands in cracks and crevices so they can be used as pitons. Ouch!
I have wondered where in this country I could live if not in this area. The Ozarks of Missouri is one of the places. Farther south may be just as nice but would get too warm for me.
I have a new hobby. Like I really needed another. I'm banging rocks with a hammer for fun and relaxation. I have started a quest. I'm going to find a trilobite. The trouble with trilobites (yeah, I know, I went there) is they started hiding about 300 million years ago. They've gotten good at it. But I'm going to find one.
Anyway, this post isn't about trilobites, it's about how I got on this kick. This rock did it. The more I looked at it the more fascinated I became. Something was obviously in there but I had no idea what it was. I still have very little idea, I switched to trilobites before I investigated much. I'm going to post pictures at a fossil site to see what they say. I believe it's some type of underwater plant or possibly a crinoid. That's as much as I'm willing to guess until I learn more. I'll also go as far as to say it's about 400 million years old, give or take a hundred million or so. I'm not very good at this yet. So without further ado, let me introduce the rock that started a quest. (cue blaring fanfare)
Another angle. The round, brown stain on the edge could have been the stalk of the whatever it is.
dont-pester-fester wrote:
Imagine the fun you might have had in prison for hard labor in the good old days.
I'd have felt inadequate swinging my little hammer next to their sledges. Everybody pointing and laughing about my little tool.
I recently read about biker's becoming dissatisfied with Harley's woke direction. Apparently some are even trading in their Hogs for Indians. (I'm claiming this is not a political post to avoid breaking my own rule. It's a socio-economic comment about outdoor entertainment equipment. Yeah, that's what it is.)
Man. I'd better go get some coffee, it sounds done.
this rock caught my eye a few years ago so i picked it up, but its still on my bucket list to find out what it is..
guess i can scratch this one off my bucket list, it’s a crystal..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite_(crystal)
P.S. hey fester.. thx gd you weren’t nekked in this particular pose.. Lol
Huh, I was guessing a fern and even tried looking it up. When you said "dendrite" I remembered seeing patterns like this at gem and mineral shows. Pretty cool stuff.
yea, i always thought it’s some sort of a plant, so it was surprising to find out its a crystal.
here’s another one i picked up very recently, my guess is a bone or petrified wood.
Aug 16, 2024
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#116
I was fossil hunting with my friends, and I found a mosasaurs tooth. It was about 2 1/2 inches, and the second I got home, I dropped and it shattered. My dad was able to super glue it together, but it’s not perfect anymore. That taught me a good lesson on how fragile this ancient stuff is…
Sillver1 wrote:
yea, i always thought it’s some sort of a plant, so it was surprising to find out its a crystal.
here’s another one i picked up very recently, my guess is a bone or petrified wood.
It looks more like bone than petrified wood to me but I'm no expert.
to me too, but something about the flat part of it reminds me of some stuff i’ve seen in the arizona petrified forest. i’ll take it to the natural history center and ask.
RchouDchou wrote:
I was fossil hunting with my friends, and I found a mosasaurs tooth. It was about 2 1/2 inches, and the second I got home, I dropped and it shattered. My dad was able to super glue it together, but it’s not perfect anymore. That taught me a good lesson on how fragile this ancient stuff is…
It's a shame the tooth broke but cool that you have one. I'm not too familiar with ancient life so I looked up mosasaur. An aquatic air-breathing reptile. Sheesh! They got big! Some were almost 18 meters long.
The fossils around here are from about 100 million years earlier. I'm just learning how to recognize different things like mollusks, plants, and molds in the rock. I have a long ways to go. I'm having trouble getting things out the rocks. Our sandstone seems to be either as hard as concrete or so soft things break apart before I can get them out. No matter. I have an endless supply.
There's a beautiful little homestead near Little Scatwell that I chose for a retirement home some years ago. Someday I'll offer them $5.00 cold, hard cash for the whole place. Maybe they'll laugh themselves to death and I can forge a will or something. Opportunity comes to those who knock.