it's a twin

I have managed to find a few nice things the last couple times out one of them being a twin horn coral. Check out these pictures of my latest discoveries.


I think this coral looks like an alien skull lol.



I was told this one is a possible hide scraper used by Indians

finally made it to the river

Well the water was finally low enough to check the sandbars on the river. We had pretty good luck with honey agate and petrified wood but didn't find many fossils. I also found a couple bison bones. We managed to hit 5 sandbars wading the river. I found my biggest piece of honey agate I've ever found. I even found some smaller pieces that I think will make neat necklaces. I have been sorting through my rock collection to help hubby make his pond and waterfall look nice. I plan to put petrified wood on the sides of the waterfall. I have placed some slabs of different agates under the water falls and crystal geodes on the outer ledges. I will start taking pictures so you guys can see the progress. I haven't decided to part with my quartz crystals I was going to sell because I may need some for the waterfall. Its not the prettiest waterfall because hubby made it himself so I have to try and pretty it up. Well hopefully soon I will make it to the river again before the water starts getting too cold or we get more rain. I have pictures posted at my yahoo group of my finds (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/riverrockhounds/).

when will the rain end

I want to go rock hunting on the river if the rain ever quits long enough for the river to go down. I have decided to try next Sunday to float down and see if any sandbars are showing. For right now I have my polisher running polishing up some of last years finds. They should be ready in 2 more weeks. Now thanks to the smoking band I am in early retirement so I have all kinds of free time for rock hunting.

Morel mushrooms

Tomorrow me and my dad are going to the river to look for mushrooms. Rumor has it that they have started here so we are going to go take a peek. Should I not find any mushrooms yet I will keep my eyes open for some rocks. So wish me luck and I will keep you posted.

Spring is here

Well it's been a long cold winter but we survived now it's rock season again. Soon I will be posting blogs again about our rock hunting expeditions. So get all your tools out and let's get started. Plus with spring comes morel mushroom season it's about a week away. So wish us luck and good luck to all you rock hunters out there happy hunting.

cold weather blues

I really hate this time of year as I get older. It always seems colder, I get more colds, and I don't want to go out. Well this is a good time to polish up all my rocks I got this year. Me and my daughter got our supplies to start making necklaces from the rocks we find. The first batch we have polished up is honey agate. We don't have the fancy equipment to grind them down to perfect shape, but that just gives each one of them their own unique characteristic.

rock necklaces

This week me and my daughter went to a yard sale that had a bunch of rocks yes it was the same one as before. This time though me and my daughter used our business heads and we had a great idea. They had a tray of different stones ready to be turned into necklaces and a bag of chains so my daughter decided to finish putting together the necklaces. She gave some to friends some for herself and the rest she will sell on ebay. Then we decided seems we find plenty of small pieces of honey agate and other pretty rocks we can make more of our own to sell. So we are going to purchase more chains off ebay and polish up some rocks and sale necklaces on ebay. For right now once we start we will use my ebay account I sell books on molimoney2006 so take a look they will be coming soon. If we have success with it I will probably set up a seperate account because I do have a second one I havent used for anything yet. I will let you know if we switch to that one. So give us about a week or two then come check out my daughters first own business. Just imagine a teenager trying to do good instead of destruction so please support her so she stays on the right track. Thanks everyone. Weather permittng we are going rock hunting friday to get some supplies so to speak. talk to you later.