Anderson Family: Geodes revealed

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Geodes revealed

If you haven't read my last post about our Geode Hunting adventure you may want to read that one first. We were really excited to cut open our Geodes...excited enough to go buy a cheap tile saw. It worked pretty well. I don't know who was more excited about it...me or the kids!

One of the first ones we cut open ended up being my favorite one. The kids had fun picking out which one I should cut next. It was pretty noisy and the saw splashed tons of water up on me so I was drenched by the time we finished.

We didn't cut open every one that we found, but we opened up a lot of them. Our biggest, nicest one we are not going to cut ourselves because our saw isn't big enough. James thought it would be fun to put it in a rock tumbler to polish the outside of the geode, then cut it open so it would be pretty on the outside and the inside. So that is what we're doing with a few of the nice one we got. The only problem with that plan is that the rock tumbler takes about a month to polish the rocks so we will have to wait patiently to see the big ones.

Here are a few of the ones we liked the best. It's hard to show all the pretty detail in a few pictures, but it will give you an idea.

We are heading to Tooele tomorrow to pick up our van. They were able to replace the transmission pan for about $190, which is less than I was preparing myself for. If the weather is nice we may head out to the Geode beds again...but this time we'll take the truck!!!

1 comment:

Kelli said...: Very cool. We'll have to join you one your next geode adventure. Our kids would love that! Glad your car repairs weren't too expensive!; September 14, 2009 at 8:05 AM

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