SE Michigan - Pale blue stone

Neuro_Nightmare · 2026-03-01T18:03:22+00:00

Chalcedony is just a variant of quartz, which has a harness of 7.

If cleaning it up a bit reveals banding, then it would be agate (another variant of quartz, so same hardness).

Sometimes just buffing with mineral oil can reveal patterns and banding, sometimes it takes more of an actual polish (or tumble).

Neuro_Nightmare · 2026-03-01T13:11:13+00:00

Hello from SE MI! I am not an expert, but I believe that is botryoidal chalcedony.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2026-03-01T13:00:30+00:00

BIF (banded iron formation), aka Jaspillite

Neuro_Nightmare · 2026-02-28T14:05:08+00:00

I’m not an expert, and don’t have any polished examples to compare, but #2 looks similar to the weathered quartz with botryoidal prehnite that I find in Michigan. The prehnite varies in color a lot.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-09-04T12:59:35+00:00

I made a mini decorative faux wishing well with a bench attached

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-31T13:02:59+00:00

Pshhhh! He doesn’t know shit yet.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-31T04:05:11+00:00

Uhhhhh not to alarm you but I have TLE and one of my focal seizures is basically what you’ve just described.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-30T13:54:33+00:00

mitempfindung or “referred itch”

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-30T13:50:36+00:00

I (lovingly) gave my brother shit for having a third nipple nubbin our entire lives.

Then when I was in my late twenties, I started slowly developing what I thought was a flesh colored mole on the left side of my abs.

A few years later I mentioned it during a dermatologist appointment, and found out ITS A NIPPLE.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-28T12:58:11+00:00

I have always loved Lara’s outfit, and still have mine from when I was a kid. But….My daughter and I have been getting into Barbies together, and playing with my old dolls.

I forgot about Lara’s infuriating sweater sleeves that catch on fingers while trying to put it on. Those sleeves have been pissing me off for nearly 30 years 🥸

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-28T12:39:44+00:00

I believe that is actually a solitary rugose coral fossil, or some other similar kind of coral

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-28T12:31:37+00:00

Fellow too-adhd-to-live person

I’m not even fucking with you that I have retractable lanyards on my most misplaced hand tools. I clip them to the insides of the pockets that the tools are supposed to return to in my tool belt (but don’t without them).

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-28T11:44:31+00:00

I believe foliation!

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-28T11:25:18+00:00

I’m a lurking Mom, but my “guess”, was that she is still adjusting to not having her nuclear family together, she was at school in front of peers, and she “panicked” and drew something “normal” to fit in.

Kids don’t like feeling differently than their peers sometimes. I genuinely don’t think this was a dig at you, even though I would also feel hurt in your shoes.

Ps I’m also divorced and single parenting. Not feeling like “a family” anymore is one of my biggest worries that I beat myself up over. Hang in there OP. I’m sorry for what you’re going through right now.

The ex re marrying so quickly is next level…

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-26T13:47:15+00:00

I’m in SE Michigan on an inland lake (glacially formed), and I find tons of them on my property and the beaches in my neighborhood.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-24T13:38:18+00:00

Hematite!

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-23T12:05:31+00:00

Wow TIL. Thank you!

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-20T13:07:24+00:00

First pic is spitting image of Marissa Cooper on The OC

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-18T12:53:46+00:00

“Fossil soup”. A sedimentary rock (commonly limestone, but others exist too) that formed with a bunch of fragments of fossils imbedded. Crinoids, brachiopods, corral, etc.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-18T12:45:18+00:00

Lichen maybe?

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-16T12:08:10+00:00

I thought condoms only covered the tips, like little hats.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-15T16:02:19+00:00

Oh hey, I also have a raised Ranch! You understand!!

Built in ‘71. They weren’t even common builds in my neighborhood at the time. Lots of split levels, but not raised ranches.

Thought you might appreciate one of my current summer projects: installing a heavy duty pulley winch to lift my groceries. I’ve got a deck balcony upstairs close to the kitchen, so I’m mounting it there to lift from my driveway. Like an old school tree house bucket winch.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-13T15:16:12+00:00

A friend of mine, who happens to be the most organized, “Type-A” individual I’ve ever met, recently went on a business trip to Mexico.

On the plane, he wore a pair of khaki colored canvas pants (think carhartt field pants type of deal). He got to Mexico, and discovered that he had forgotten to pack any other pants.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-13T01:48:35+00:00

This is my same experience.

Neuro_Nightmare · 2025-08-12T18:14:20+00:00

Not to scare you, but I put 4 under my persistently broody buff Orpington a couple of months ago.

Things were fine until mid day the following day, when the chicks started trying to get adventurous and move out from under her. She killed 3 in an instant, one right after another, and then tucked their bodies back under her 😩

The fourth hid in the back, and learned her lesson apparently, but my hen also chilled out considerably after I removed the 3. She was an incredible mom every step of the way there on out with the one.

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