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Post by Stormrider on Aug 18, 2020 18:55:10 GMT -6
Nice pictures! You have a really nice property from the aerial view. Did you use a drone with a camera to get the shot or is this from those airplanes that go over and shoot pictures of everyone's land and then come around and sell them? LOL!
The fossils looked like some nice grilled steaks when I first looked at them. I guess I was hungry! LOL!
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 18, 2020 19:39:49 GMT -6
I have used this map site ever since we moved here. Browse topics and chose base data. The map will give you gobs of info depending on what is available for your area. engagementnetwork.org/map-room/
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 19, 2020 7:21:25 GMT -6
A square 40 acre parcel has a perimeter of 1 mile. So, each side is 1/4 mile long. Where we used to live in NJ, the property we owned was 60ft x 125ft. We paid 10x the property tax there, than we do now. People that I have talked to who still live in NJ absolutely cannot believe it, and have actually called me names (in jest, I hope).
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 19, 2020 7:31:55 GMT -6
Yes, taxes in more citified high populated areas are much higher. When we lived in Marengo on our little ranch, the taxes were a lot lower than where my youngest daughter lives in a subdivision in Huntley . . . About $8,000 less and we had 6 acres and she just has about 1/4 acre!
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 20, 2020 4:06:51 GMT -6
So, my husband is building a new fishing pier? dock? at the fossil pond, on the western shore. He (with a little help from me) dug post holes an inch away from the water line, so he could set posts. They failed a perc test spectacularly (if I wanted to build a septic system right there). Both red and grey clay in layers all the way down into the holes. Some shards of shale, also. But, while he was digging, I was looking for fossils. And I found one. It is roughly 2 fingers wide, and about as long as those fingers. It is roughly shaped like a homemade loaf of bread, oval, sort of rounded on top, with a flattish bottom. The topside had been burned. (We burned off the area years ago) Underneath, though, I could discern pits and fibrous looking strands. I resisted the lick test until I got it inside and scrubbed it. It stuck to my tongue. Maybe a coprolite? If it is, then I licked dino poo! I wouldn't be the first in the family to do that though. My bio and bonus grandsons have had that honor. www.discovery.com/science/First-Dinosaur-Fossil-Name
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 20, 2020 10:48:44 GMT -6
I wondered how licking would tell you it was a fossil and now I know! Also interesting that a guy named Buckland discovered the first one, even though he didn't know it immediately. I guess you and JRRT picked up on that!
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Post by Andorinha on Aug 20, 2020 11:18:02 GMT -6
Hmmm, licking Dino-poo... We do not recommend it.
Just great, Fan, right in the middle of one pandemic you start "saliva-activating" Dino-poo organisms that have not been introduced to our mammalian world for millions of years! You'll probably break out in Dino-measels sometime next week!
I think the lick-test only works on bone material, not coprolites anyway. So if a fossil never had much bone material (vegetarian Dino-coprolite) or has had ALL its bone replaced by rock minerals, it should not stick?
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 20, 2020 13:03:09 GMT -6
The grandsons got to visit with a bona fide paleontologist a year ago or so. He had them lick Dino poo, which stuck to their tongues. They survived the experience, so I think I will. But, I'll let you know. You are right that the lick test does not always work.
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 20, 2020 14:23:09 GMT -6
I have a reason to show these pictures. This was the house before Buckland. The little blue house is what we moved into, and the big brown house is what we moved out of. We expanded in every direction we could. (The pics were damaged. Sorry.) We never moved out during the remodel. We did send the kids to relatives for awhile, but Steve and I stayed. That's my husband walking on the shorter roof. He got on the taller one after this, but I couldn't look, so no picture. This is from the back of the house.
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 21, 2020 6:18:37 GMT -6
Pictures of my recent fossil find - The top was black from being burned, and I scrubbed it as best as possible: The bottom:
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 21, 2020 6:24:52 GMT -6
I don't see an imprint on either side of that piece. Of course, I'm on the cellphone and not my pc, so perhaps it's because the picture is too small on the phone.
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 21, 2020 6:33:23 GMT -6
It is not supposed to have an imprint. If it is a coprolite (poo), the entire thing is the fossil.
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 21, 2020 10:40:39 GMT -6
LOL! Okay then!
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Post by Stormrider on Aug 21, 2020 13:28:43 GMT -6
This was growing in Desi's yard when we got back from Wisconsin. It reminded me of the mushroom ring. But I am not so sure about these. Are they safe? I dug them up just in case they aren't. Sorry, I used your Buckland thread but since you were finding thing on your property, I thought this might fit in, sort of!
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Post by fanuidhol on Aug 21, 2020 14:11:53 GMT -6
I am not a mushroom person. I can't advise you on this, but my first thought "shelf mushroom". You can google examples. All I know is never eat any mushroom without the guidance of an expert.
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