Rocky

Every year, SHusband does a display for the annual Buffalo Geological Society's Rock, Gem and Mineral show. There is a theme for the show, and sometimes he follows the theme, but for the past 4 or 5 years, he has made up his own theme. Over the years: Specimens of Sicily, Indian Trap Rocks, Romania Rocks, Testing of Minerals with simple chemical tests to determine their consistency, and this year, and easier one to manage: "Vintage Rock and Minerals Sets".

This display consisted of three different very old collections of sample rocks/minerals with their identifying labels/information.

All were from the 1940's, and one special one was a very limited collection made specifically for Boy Scouts. Since this is the 100th Anniversary of Boy Scouting in America, this was a very timely addition to the display.

He didn't win any prizes this year, but to me is my own special "Rocky".

Amaryllis week 2

As promised, here is the second week of our friend Priscilla the Amaryllis. Yes, I know, who names a plant? Well, actually, we also have a cactus named Charlie. Just being consistent here.

If you remember, on January 9th, she was just reaching the top of the bottom ceramic tile, now, she is up and over the sill, peaking out the window. If she looks closely, she will see that the snow that was covering most of the window outside has melted below the sill-having a bit of a melt today.

On the sill behind her sprouts is a "Thunder Egg" which is an agate quartz rock that looks like a plain old bumpy grey rock on the outside, but when broken open, the cavity is filled with this lovely stuff. In this case the blue filler is in the shape of a star. SHusband has these things all over, and I just pluck out ones that I like and borrow them for a bit.

While I am typing this, SH is giving me the chemical makeup of every type of gem stone, he loves to share info. Every few seconds he adds one more fact. Too funny. I am not being rude by not paying attention (I hope), he just tends to go on a smidge after we have finished talking, or at least I thought we were finished. Now I am going on, must be contagious.

Tune in next week for another adventure of Priscilla as she looks around her world.