[Rockhounds] Thanks!

[Cheri Moody]

Thanks to all who gave us great info and a warm welcome! We are happy to be a part of an exciting group of well informed Rockhounds/Geologist. 
We are heading to Wickenburg Arizona in the am in hopes to find Turquoise. A quick stop in Quartzite to see some of the collectors gatherings and possibilities will make this a fun few days and a start for the new year.
 
Cheri Moody  




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From: Nathan Martin <rocknate at gmail.com>
To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2009 10:42:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] New Year's Resolutions

Hi Cheri,
Welcome to the list.  Our list includes a diverse group of people from all
over the world.  It is a great list to be on and someone on it can usually
provide an answer to almost any question that you might have.  I guess the
real question depends on what you mean by Rockhounding.  I think Wikipedia
has a good definition: Rockhounding is the recreational collecting of rocks
and/or mineral specimens from their natural environment.

By that definition I am certainly a rockhound and most others on this list
are as well.  However, there are a lot of topics related to the hobby and
geology is certainly one of them so you should not be surprised to find
discussions of it here.  The topics discussed vary from day to day and month
to month.  Sometimes they are interesting to me sometimes not but I have
found this list to be a great place to learn and share information about our
hobby.

You may indeed want to find an additional list to join and the YAHOO group,
LA-Rocks, would seem to be appropriate for your location.  (I am a member of
that group as well, even though I only get to California once or twice a
year, but always with my collecting tools in my luggage.)

Good luck with your "rockhounding" by whatever definition you choose to
apply.  Its a great hobby.

best regards,
Nate martin
Lexington, MA

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Cheri Moody <daughtofking64 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello group! My husband and I are fairly new Rock Hounds (7 years)....This
> group seems to be a bit more than Rockhounds, more of a serious geology
> group....We are looking for a group that is into the Rockhounding in
> Southern, and Northern Cali....We also travel to Utah, Arizona, Oregon,
> Nevada to hunt...Can you direct us to a group of Rockhounds? Or if any of
> you are into the basic Rockhounding we would love to hear from you.
>
> Cheri Moody
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Scott & Meesha Blair <spocksrocks at hotmail.com>
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <
> rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 3, 2009 8:57:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] New Year's Resolutions
>
> 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)
>
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