[Rockhounds] New Year's Resolutions

[Scott & Meesha Blair]

That's good stuff Larry:

I'm starting to have a clearer picture of why different dealers have such 
widely variable pricing on what appears to be very similar mineral specimens 
(smiles)

I injured my back this past summer while lifting a portly chunk of basalt 
into my pickup. It's bad enough laying on the ground, trying to get past the 
pain, before you can consider going down the hill to see a doctor (and begin 
the financial part of the trauma). But to make matters worse, my 80 year old 
grandpa who was with me at the time, advised me to quit whining, and 
continued to dead lift 150 pounders into the truck with simple ease.

In a month's time, my back was reasonably OK - but my ego has still not 
fully recovered!

Warm Regards - Scott Blair


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Rush" <larryrush at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" 
<rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 7:51 AM
Subject: [Rockhounds] New Year's Resolutions


>  8.. I resolve not to use my 5 foot, 50 pound railroad pry bar as a hiking 
> staff while climbing a quarry wall ( Last year's result- broken femur, 
> ambulance ride, $2370 Emergency Room charges, and no new calcites from 
> that site)