Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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The first pic I posted of that rock (which has come into the house to be a domesticated rock!) was when I had first hosed it off. Looking at it now, there's a side that looks more dramatic, in this light it looks more maroon than reddish purple, could just be the LED bulb in this light.



1 day ago

Tereza Okava wrote:wow, mozarkite tumbles up beautifully!!
i used to be really into rocks and minerals as a kid, and managed to let it slide as my interests moved elsewhere. maybe it's time to get back into it!
https://rocktumbler.com/rough/mozarkite/


Lots of pretty rocks around here. Now you make me wonder if I moved my rock tumbler or not., a lot of things didn't make the cut when I packed up multiple houses.. Hmm...

Edit, I just checked, it's on the packing list, but I'm not real sure where that box is. Hmm...
1 day ago

Anne Miller wrote:According to some sources that might be called Chevron Amethyst.


I wish it was! Those are lovely!
It's a Missouri ditch rock, and the Chevron Amethyst is only found in India, Russia, and and Brazil.
2 days ago
B Beeson: Oooh!  I think you win!
The gray rocks around here make excellent arrowheads, yes. Chert, I believe.
Orange limestone is all over around here, I know that when I see it.

Mozarkite is probably it. I saw an image online of that color on almost a whole rock, not just in ribbons like mine.
Cool! It has a name!
Thank you!! :D
2 days ago
{quote=burra maluca] biological deposits like coralline algae in marine environments These rocks are all sediment off a dried up sea floor that compressed and turned to rock. Organic creatures might well be part of it, just not common.  
Cool! Thank you!!
:D
2 days ago
I have a pretty rock I want to know more about.



The purple looking one... The other three are normal coloration for this area (or orange sandstone) and I pick up a lot of them. Never seen one with purple in it though!

This area (SW Missouri) was once part of a shallow sea, and sometimes the grey rocks look like marble, intricately patterned, or have fossils in them!  But purple...

What would make it purple? Is it like what makes amethyst purple? Is it sea creatures? Puzzling rock to pick up!!  I like it.
3 days ago
Noon central time on Tuesday, this is the current aurora prediction map.
3 days ago
I'm surprised, that was a hard impact. The planetary Kp index did calm back down pretty fast, maybe it only was dramatic for a couple of hours, before it got dark in the US.  The aurora chart was showing high chances at 6PM last night, but it wasn't over the US yet.
3 days ago
Whooo… the CME just hit HARD. I predict good sky watching tonight for those in the zone.

4 days ago
In a different room, hours after my first reply here, thought about it again, looked up, sheetrock, a heater duct with stuff I put to it to move the air flow where I want it, and a small black jumping spider going someplace important  :D
I like jumping spiders :D
4 days ago