Uncle Siphuncle Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Alas, I am that guy on the street who does odd tasks on the driveway in broad daylight, and is well past having any concern for how odd it looks. Today I elected to clean out the blast cabinet of used media, in this case baking soda, and sift it prior to reuse. I know it was an odd sight to see a grown man sitting in a little chair on the driveway huddled over a 5 gallon bucket pushing baking soda through a frying pan splatter screen. But hey, its a cost effective practice. Anyway, a few goodies came to hand in the process, namely a long lost Paciphachops trilobite from Bob Carroll's quarry, a few Weches Formation Fibularia texana echinoids, a Glen Rose Formation Loriolia rosana, and a small Salenia echinoid, also Glen Rose. If there is one thing I enjoy almost as much as finding fossils, it is finding fossils a second time that I forgot I ever found or lost. In similar fashion, I have found some decent echinoids in the grass around my driveway as well as pushed down in the dirt near the receiving dock at my office, the area where I scrub fossils on my lunch hour. Most recently I found a perfect one inch diameter Phymosoma texanum at the office....good times! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Check your sofa cushions. Daily. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 And don't forget to unroll the cuffs on your jeans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I find all kinds of stuff in the gravel from the back pockets of my jeans. Sometimes it's what I wanted, other times it's just gravel. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 I would check the dryer lint trap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Let us not forget where we wash out our canoe/kayak in our yard.Always find something new there. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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