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Post by damammy on Jan 19, 2007 17:00:31 GMT -5
If you can't remember people's names but remember the names of all your rocks in your collection and where you found them or who gave them to you. Donna
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Post by writerman2255 on Jan 23, 2007 12:57:53 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if you have bids on more than one rock on ebay and all at the same time! If you spend more than four hours a day on the computer looking at ROCKS! If you question your sanity, especially in relationship to hunting rocks, and to restore it, you spend some time gazing at your crystals . . . and it works! If friends come in from out of town, and instead of cleaning the biotite from the bathroom sink, you explain that 'it's just clean dirt.'
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Post by bobrush on Jan 23, 2007 21:57:20 GMT -5
You see a pile of gravel used for highway work alongside the road and you stop to "check it out".
You visit your uncle and he tells you where in his yard to scratch around to find that rock he tossed out there years ago and you stop the conversation to go look.
You inherited your dad's rock collection and you are not about to get rid of anything that you already have that is the same as his.
You taught your grandson to look for rocks and he brings home rocks from the playground for you to identify.
You return to your childhood home and scratch around for any rocks that you might have left behind.
After your dad has passed on and you are moving his rocks and you check out the shrubbery and yard for anything "just in case".
You might be an old rockhound if: You point out a really likely spot for the younger ones to dig in and when they return with the good stuff you say "I'll give you five bucks for that" and they say "OH! Wow". They take the five bucks and dash back to the same spot and start digging with even more enthusiasm.
Bob
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Post by bobrush on Jan 24, 2007 10:53:27 GMT -5
You plan a romantic weekend getaway with your wife at a special place and after you arrive there just "happens" to be a gem and mineral show there that weekend.
You try to convince your wife that you need more rocks.......... and you succeed.
Your daughter hears something rattling in the clothes dryer. She finds a rock. She shakes out your grandson's pants. She finds two more. In the future she checks out his pants before washing. She continues to find more rocks.
Your wife's new car and your daughter's '66 Mustang convertible are in the driveway. Your rock saws, tumblers, cabbing unit and boxes of rock are in the garage.
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Post by damammy on Jan 24, 2007 16:31:48 GMT -5
If you choose a rock when ask what you would like to remember your Father-in-law, not that it is valuable only because he liked it well enough to carry it home. Donna
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Post by jimolson on Jan 24, 2007 17:05:11 GMT -5
Very nice - I like that one!
You all are doing great! Keep em coming we are still a ways off from a book!
Kyle - havnt heard from you lately
jim
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Post by snakewrangler on Jan 25, 2007 0:34:04 GMT -5
I've got a blistering head ache right now and I am about to go insane being so far away from the diggin locations. Studyin is for the birds if you ask me, but it has to be done occasionally. So here are a few more to add to the pot...... -If you day dream in class about rocks -If you have have more rocks than you have space to put them -If you can spend days and days diggin and still want to dig -If you can remember all of the rocks that you have, but cann't seem to remember your girlfriend's name -If you spend more time at school thinking about rocks than you do studying -If your roomates ask you why your desk is covered in rocks and you say the rocks keep you from getting lonely -If your friends think you are crazy about rocks and you tell them its just an obcession -If you spend more time working with rocks than you do working -If you have ever interupted a conversation to pick up a rock thats under someones foot -If you have mica and other minerals on your floor and you leave them there because you think it looks cool -If you have ever cancelled plans with your girlfriend to go diggin -If you use your computer to talk on this board more than anything else -If you have ever went crazy when someone through a rock into a lake -If you have ever jumped into the lake after a rock someone through Good night yall.................................................. Kyles out
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Post by writerman2255 on Jan 26, 2007 21:26:32 GMT -5
Okay, you just might be a rockhound if you identify your work jeans by rock digging type; one for muddy digging, a thick pair for climbing piles with sharp rocks in it, and the light, walking up the stream pair. You add up the value of the pile of rocks in your yard from the mines, and it's about fifty-five cents, and a friend points out that if you had worked for the five hundred hours it took you to dig them up you would be thousands of dollars richer and . . .you just don't get the connection!
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Post by 41dave on Jan 28, 2007 23:01:37 GMT -5
..if you're driving on a very curvy stretch of road through a mountainous river gorge and you run off the road 3 or 4 times cause you're looking at the stream and picking out spots where you think gold will drop out of the flow....ohh...and its snowing....then you spend the rest of the day...give or take six hours in a resiliant harsh 30mph winds, the temperature at 25 or so, and you find just enough quartz crystals to fill a shot glass, but they're still purdy and it was still worth it.
-Dave
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Post by claycat on Jan 29, 2007 9:01:18 GMT -5
Ah... Dave sounds like the Sunday Ed and I had!
Great wasn't it!
Cathy
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Post by snakewrangler on Jan 30, 2007 12:11:51 GMT -5
-If your girlfriend threatens to break up with you if you go on another rockhounding trip yet you go and the threat doesn't even cross your mind.
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Post by claycat on Jan 31, 2007 8:42:56 GMT -5
Maybe we should do a rock hound version of the country hit "I'm gonna miss her". You know the fishing song.
Cathy
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Post by snakewrangler on Jan 31, 2007 11:18:08 GMT -5
I actually sang that song as I was leaving, I love to fish also. Kyle Well I'm gonna miss her when I get home(maybe not)..........
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Post by snakewrangler on Feb 8, 2007 11:34:39 GMT -5
I see that this thread has drop off the chart so here I am to pick it up. -If you know more about rocks than you do about your job. -If you study more about rocks than you do your college classes. -If you think you have ADD because your are always think of rocks instead of whats going on around you. (I'm serious) -If you have more fun digging in one day than you do in a week without diggin. Okay Yall there are a million of them out there so start thinking. Kyle
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Post by geodepat on Feb 8, 2007 20:59:16 GMT -5
You take a rock to work to show your coworkers.
You wish the people that have the rock garden on your new delivery route would be outside so you can see their rocks.
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Post by stevebarr on Feb 11, 2007 14:41:37 GMT -5
Your Wife Might be a Rockhound if…..
A huge rock falls and hits you on the head in a pit, and she just rolls your body out of the way and keeps digging.
She visits you in the hospital later to show you the specimens she found after the ambulance took you away.
You are in a horrible car accident. At the moment of impact, you throw yourself on top of the specimens you just collected to protect them instead of her….and she understands!
To improve your love life, she starts wearing a hardhat to bed.
The only new furniture she's wanted to buy in ten years is a specimen cabinet.
She never bothers asking for jewelry anymore. She just goes out and digs up her own.
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Post by damammy on Feb 11, 2007 16:09:22 GMT -5
If co-workers want to do something nice for you and you are given a box of rocks and you like it.
You know a child will become a rockhound if as a joke he gets a lump of coal in his stocking at Christmas and he adds it to his quartz collection. Donna
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Post by Chigoe on Feb 17, 2007 18:05:17 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if you keep your rock hammer, chisels and other rock tools in your vehicle at all times, just in case. -you wear out more gloves than you do socks & underware -you have more square feet of your lawn covered with rocks than with grass -you keep a tumbler going 24/7 365 days a year
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Post by colorado on Feb 17, 2007 18:23:32 GMT -5
and if you name your DOG "Colorado Smokey Quartz"..... what a solid name ;D
call him "Smokey"
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Post by snakewrangler on Feb 20, 2007 0:32:00 GMT -5
-If you are looking at this board at 12:30 in the morning.
-If you can beat on a chisle without looking at it.
-If you have ever smashed your hand digging and just shrugged it off and kept going.
-If your desk is covered with rocks from the last dig you were at.
-If you LIVE TO DIG.
-If you are always thinking about digging.
-If you all books and magazines you own are about rocks and locations to dig.
-If you can keep digging with a broke arm.
-If your car has a permanent layer of dirt on the floor boards.
Keep em coming Yall,
Kyle
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Post by stevebarr on Feb 25, 2007 9:35:05 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if...... You always carry your wallet in your back pocket on digs, and now your driver's license looks like this....
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Post by tomleary on Feb 25, 2007 10:16:53 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if... You get cited by the city for having too many buckets visible from the road. You ever threw your back out from digging too much material at Diamond hill you ever passed by a fireworks stand because you were in a hurry to get to a locality. You ever hurried to a locality to collect (the rocks ain't going anywhere)
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Post by morockin on Feb 25, 2007 21:32:46 GMT -5
You might be a Rockhound if....
....You don't own a lawnmower cuz rocks don't grow!
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Post by geodepat on Feb 25, 2007 22:09:59 GMT -5
If.....you unload rock after rock out of your truck and think your done.....then 2 months later you decide to spring clean the truck and find a whole nother slew of rocks under a tarp.
If....you open the storage tub that holds your camp kitchen and find a stew pot full of rocks. Hey ya put them where ever you can to carry them.
If....you check the coffee pot and your dissapointed, no rocks.
If....you think your dog looks good covered with mica sparkles. ;D
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Post by crystaldigger on Feb 26, 2007 13:18:34 GMT -5
if... you stay at a job long enough solely for the purpose of receiving the jewel encrusted years-of-service pins!
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Post by geodepat on Feb 26, 2007 19:56:45 GMT -5
If every year you get a safe driver award pin and you attach rocks to them to wear as hat pins. ;D
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Post by nancyh on Feb 27, 2007 12:58:58 GMT -5
If you read about a land slide in San Fransisco and your first thought is how nice it would be nice to have rokcs fall on your yard.
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Post by crystaldigger on Feb 28, 2007 10:13:28 GMT -5
IF you're encouraging "global warming" so that it hurries the heck up and melts glaciers to expose more territory to dig in!
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Post by pcktfullofokenite on Mar 1, 2007 23:18:23 GMT -5
Do you shower with your rocks?
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Post by geodepat on Mar 4, 2007 23:13:48 GMT -5
....you've ever slept with a rock.
....you try to rearange the furniture to put in more shelf space for rocks.
....family photos on walls are replaced with shelves for rocks.
that's all I have for today. 8-)Pat
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