Among the rocks in and around Mom's garden areas I found a fossil.
Weird things you found on your property...
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The Transcontinental Railroad crossed our ranch.. We often find railroad spikes, fragments of UPRR pottery. When some one broke a plate, they threw it out a window.
Had a friend while in college that was a bottle collector. He would find the work camps and the outhouse pits.. Found lots of whiskey bottles in the holes.
Workers would finish a bottle and throw it in the hole.. He sold the bottles for pretty high prices.
The place is a famous site for dinosaur fossils. We find bone fragments, tail vertebrae, fish scales, Turtles, squid butts, and dinosaur foot prints in numerous spots.
Had a friend while in college that was a bottle collector. He would find the work camps and the outhouse pits.. Found lots of whiskey bottles in the holes.
Workers would finish a bottle and throw it in the hole.. He sold the bottles for pretty high prices.
The place is a famous site for dinosaur fossils. We find bone fragments, tail vertebrae, fish scales, Turtles, squid butts, and dinosaur foot prints in numerous spots.
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Can't help myself. What's a squid butt?
It is the fossilized cartilaginous body of an ancient squid. Looks like a stone bullet.
Fossils - Belemnites
We have a 160 million year old ocean sea shore that must have experienced a hurricane or something and washed 1000s of squid up on beach where they died and were covered over by the next high tide.
The beach was buried under hundreds of feet of subsequent sedimentary layers, and now is eroding back out now, thus exposing the squid butts.
Fossils - Belemnites
We have a 160 million year old ocean sea shore that must have experienced a hurricane or something and washed 1000s of squid up on beach where they died and were covered over by the next high tide.
The beach was buried under hundreds of feet of subsequent sedimentary layers, and now is eroding back out now, thus exposing the squid butts.
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I find arrow heads on my property....So I know people were hunting it before me.........
Nowhere near as cool as squid butts nor even on my property I found a clutch of snake eggs at work today.
Needed to valve in a clarifier today I was popping lids off of valve boxes, looked down in one and thought "potatoes?". After scraping knuckles and bumping my head under concrete stairs closing the drain I took a look at the suction side and reconsidered. I double gloved one hand and commenced lifting out the 10-12 eggs I could see. Feeling like water balloons they floated on the water when I scooped some debris that turned out to be a decomposed snake about a foot long. And a piece of duct tape. The box is about 5 ft. deep and had 4 ft. of water, the rain we've had claimed another handful of victims.
No idea what they were, a small snake can lay a good sized egg though these were nearly 2 inches long. Not much left of the snakes head and could not make out the markings.
If I remember I'll slice one open and have a look.
Probably be the highlight of my day...
Needed to valve in a clarifier today I was popping lids off of valve boxes, looked down in one and thought "potatoes?". After scraping knuckles and bumping my head under concrete stairs closing the drain I took a look at the suction side and reconsidered. I double gloved one hand and commenced lifting out the 10-12 eggs I could see. Feeling like water balloons they floated on the water when I scooped some debris that turned out to be a decomposed snake about a foot long. And a piece of duct tape. The box is about 5 ft. deep and had 4 ft. of water, the rain we've had claimed another handful of victims.
No idea what they were, a small snake can lay a good sized egg though these were nearly 2 inches long. Not much left of the snakes head and could not make out the markings.
If I remember I'll slice one open and have a look.
Probably be the highlight of my day...
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vigil617
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I guess they didn't get the word that they'd survive a nuke strike without taking shelter.....
Not my house, but my mother-in-laws who moved in with her son and daughter-in-law due to the onset of dementia. While preparing to sell the house, we did a thorough cleaning. During the last year or so she had taken in some boarders, rather seedy types, and while looking up in the rafters of the garage I found several Asian porno VHS tapes. My brother-in-law swore they weren't his...
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Keep the pics but leave the cookbook.
The weirdest thing I ever found was my ex-wife when she came to pick up one of my sons for dinner.
Zacker
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my house sits on land that used t be one HUGE farm back 100 years or more ago, after moving in and digging around in the areas history I discovered that the land was once owned by relatives of my boss...lol He did some looking into his family tree and confirmed it. someplace on my property or close to it is supposed to be a huge boulder with his family name carved into it by a great great grandfather. but when I moved in we were rebuilding a section of the rock wall and dug up 8 steel wheels of some sort, they looked like they would have been something that rode on a track, maybe about 6 to 8 inches tall and 4-6 inches wide with fanged edges... trolley or some sort of farm machine im guessing. we also dig up a lot of old barbed wire, glass and square nails. some old small bottles and all types of scrap metals...
