@Hooch a little similarities in the love and collection of stones, rocks, fossils. I love it all. Watched an interesting program a few times where they were going in secretive and deep to where there were some exquisite precious gems, looked tropical! Another time where these guys were going in to a place and using some explosives, probably in Utah, very dry and barren looking.
That is on my bucket list of things I want to do, not necessarily with explosives, but to just get out there and find some awesome stones. Also watched the family that "owns" land in Utah or Nevada and they mine it for turquoise. Sapphires in Montana...supposed to be a couple places in Texas to dig on someone's property and then the places out to the southwest of Texas.
Unfortunately I started collecting beads and make bracelets and anklets now.

For myself because I know what I like and the size.
Dear me,
@sonya123 good luck with the new puppy! Good luck with the lambs! We need photos of them to get us out of the winter doldrums!!!
I had daffodils blooming in the yard a couple days before the big freeze.