[Rockhounds] Hello Everyone!!!

[Dani blah]

Well, it was suggested that I introduce myself since I'm new, so I suppose I shall.  :)  My name's Dani, I'm 28 years old, and I've been collecting rocks since before I can remember.  My grandmother used to buy me a new stone every time we would go to the local flea market, and I've grown the collection to two full shadow boxes since then.  At one point I was quite diligent about keeping everything labeled and organized, until my grandfather knocked both boxes off the wall while vacuuming one day.  Oops!  Most of them are re-labeled and back where they belong now, thanks to a kind-hearted geology professor who wasn't put off by my distraught sob story.  :)

Most of the specimens that I have have been purchased from random mineral shops and flea markets.  I have relatively few stones that I've actually collected myself, although I would like to find places where I can do that at some point.  I have a few Herkimer Diamonds that my grandmother got for me (she lived in upstate New York), a fistful of mica shists that I've picked up from driveways around the countryside, a rock from the wall of the Rochepot castle in France, and a couple of random fossil rocks that I found around my mom's backyard.  Everything else that I have was bought, or sucked up in my grandfather's vacuum ;)  

I'm hoping to get some good pictures of the rocks that I do have soon, and catalog them on a website somewhere.  It'd be handy if I ever lose the tags again, and that way I can show them off to anyone here that would be interested in seeing them too.  :)  I'm sure my collection is nothing compared to most of yours, but that's why I'm here.  I'm always up for meeting like minded people and sharing information.  

So that's me!  Nice to meet all of you, and hopefully someday I'll be able to offer something interesting to the group!  Thanks for letting me join in the fun!

~dani



      

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