Last night DH and i went to our first RockHound Club meeting and LOVED it! lol it started out to be the normal boring stuff (minutes of the last meeting and voting in the same people to treasure dept and such) but then then shared stories about actually going out and finding your own, either at a place you pay to dig and are guaranteed to find something, caused it is what they call 'salted' which means they stock it with stuff to find or at places you just walk or drive to and dig! lol i think they both sound fun as i would LOVE to dig where i am guaranteed to find something, just as i would enjoy walking out to the foothills behind my house and dig! There are, of course, rules to follow for both places like asking permission if you see a house nearby... mostly common sense stuff. Even learned about how this rock club feels about a congressman wanting to save land for the wilderness, which i was surprised to find out would NOT then allow rockhounds to mine or dig. Never thought about that when i was ALWAYS for saving the land.
i did take a box of rocks to the meeting last night in hopes of getting someone to help i.d. them and actually met a man who helped but SHEESH he went soooooooooo quickly (i guess it is exciting to dig through a newbie's collection lol) but when he actually got through the ROCKs he didn't seem too interested in the gemstone section and kind of walked away LOL strange!! With the gemstones having healing properties & such, i find them way more interesting but they are ALL fun to me! But it was so much FUN learning where to go and what to expect too! We did see a couple that we met at the Gem & Mineral Show and was glad to see them and plan to get together with the female and go somewhere close to mine our own!! WOOHOO!! i can hardly wait!! lol Also found out that the male of the couple, just got a saw and is anxious to get rock cutting and here i am with all these geodes!!
When i mentioned it to him, he lit up and told me to BRING THEM OVER!!! luckily he lives close by too!!! hehehe
Next month when we go, i will donate these slabs for opportunity drawings (please don't call it a Raffle!! lol)They asked for slab donations for January and boy do i have some! lol
SOMEONE will be interested in them as i sure don't find them too exciting! lol
If you have any questions about them, just ask and i will do my best to answer asap!
At this point i wish to THANK Kimb !!! She sooooooooooo generously sent me links to download as a gift for my birthday (almost a MONTH ago!!) and i didn't check my email for almost a month and JUST found it the other day!!! i could not believe 1) someone could be soo sweet and send me their AWESOME designs and 2) have been soo patient to wait for me to check me mails and 3) to have the links still active too!!! i cried i felt so bad that i hadn't checked my mails and soo happy that she is soooooo sweet and kind!!!! Thank you, my friend!! HUGS!!! All i can say is that this digital scrapbooking community is truly the BEST!!! and so are you Kim!!!!!!!!!! :D
Well, i sure hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day! i am off to visit you now!! HUGS! :D
1 comment:
Wow, what a great growing collection you have there. Beautiful! Glad you were able to go to the meeting....Im sure there are quite a few different people there too, lol...hope you can find out 'whats what' and have a great time doing it. Super you have met someone else with similar interests, makes it that much more fun! Enjoy and have a great weekend! Hugs!
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