 Hello and welcome once again to the Rugged Rockhound. Today is kind of nice and sunny. A few days ago, as part of my kind of rehab trying to get back out, I usually go out and do short walks around the neighborhood. But we went and did a short drive just to the edge of town and I just kind of walked around there just right at the edge of town and stumbled across some of those nodules, those septarians, that will have the calcite crystals growing in them. So I didn't have the care with me so I didn't film it. But I got them all washed off and thought I'd show you. They're actually pretty cool. So let's take a quick look at them. So yeah, like I said, I really wasn't expecting to find anything so I didn't have my camera with me. Let's take a look at some of these calcite crystals. So this fell out of the pocket. It's a nice little bladed dragon's tooth calcite. Very cool. Here's another little one. This was part of a seam and it just kind of terminated on this edge here. Here's a nice little one that kind of made a rhombohedron. So here's what the veins kind of looked like going through it. Sorry, let me hold that up higher. But along the edges of them you can get some nice calcite crystal terminations. So here you can see where some of it is this nice brown calcite and occasionally get this nice clear calcite. Here's this one. A bunch of little crystals there and you got a bunch of white ones through there but this is the best part. You got a nice dragon tooth calcite right there. Here's this one. You got the brown calcite with a dragon tooth on top. Another one like that one but it's got two. Once again, here's a vein piece but right here you can see where it opened up into a pocket and look at those crystals. Very nice calcites. Here's this one covered with those little brown calcites and then a few nice ones right there. This one was loose and it was part of a pocket so you can see those crystals. They've been damaged a little bit because they were exposed but still quite nice. There's this one right here. You can see some crystals in there and in that pocket. Okay now we're getting to the really good ones. Here we go. So this is part of the main pocket which I actually broke into so this stuff hadn't been exposed so the crystals were a lot nicer. Look at that. Very nice. So in this pocket they tended to form more of the rhombohedral crystal types. Here's this one. There's still a bit of cleaning to do in there but it needs a sonic bath or something. Really nice though. And there's this big piece. Look at that pocket. Look at those calcites. Wish they were barites but I'll take the calcite crystals. And here is the best piece from the day so you get the pocket running along through here and then right there is a large crystal. It ran into the other side but you can see some faces on it and then right here look at the size of that one. Unfortunately a little bit of it broke there but overall it's a pretty nice crystal. And like I said just went out to the edge of town just walked around a little bit and boom there they were. You never know where you're gonna find these sceptarians and ones that have crystals in them. I did see a number of sceptarians but a lot of them didn't have much in them. This one fortunately was really good. So that was quite an amazing find. I was just off the road. I was just I don't know I walked like 40-50 feet which is good because I can't go very far right now but that was great and I could just enjoy doing some rock-hounding like I haven't done in a long time. Just goes to show I need to make sure I bring the camera with me even if I'm just gonna go for a short walk that I don't really expect to find much. And I'm gonna have to go back out there because it was so easy. Where there's one there might be more. So next time hopefully I'll bring the camera. I will. I'll bring the camera next time I go out there and let's see what I find then. Yeah I'm getting better. Every day getting a little better. Until next time remember there is treasure everywhere.