 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound. It has actually been a while. It's been about three weeks since I filmed anything and I'm really glad that I had made two videos and posted them two weeks ahead because I had a medical emergency that put me down for a week and a half solid and I didn't do anything. It didn't work nothing. So it really feels good getting back to making some videos. So yes excited. On top of that finally I think spring has arrived. So just a couple days ago we had the last big storm come through the mountains drop some more snow. Utah got hit hard but fortunately out here in Grand Junction all we got was a skiff. So finally things are warming up today. Oh it's about 50 degrees right now. As you can see no more snow in the backyard finally. And this weekend it's supposed to get up into the 60s and next week into the 70s. So yay rockhounding season welcome back. So I'm going to go out rockhounding Saturday and I'm just going to go ahead and let you know right now I'm planning on now that the weather is warmer and there's more daylight. I'm planning on going rockhounding after work most days. There's this wonderful place I've been wanting to go to just north of town. It's just been too muddy or too covered in snow to go out. Finally we'll be able to go out and so I'm going to be going out there pretty consistently. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go out most of the days of the week go rockhounding after work for you know a couple hours. And then I'm going to put all that footage together and make a video out of that and then maybe also work rockhounding Saturday and hopefully we'll get back into the pattern of a rockhounding video every Friday. I'm excited to finally get back at that and maybe still have a cutting video on Mondays or maybe not every Monday but as often as I can get them and kind of get back to doing two videos a week. I just can't tell you how good it feels to have good weather and to finally be able to get out and rockhound again. So today we're just doing this quick cutting video. I've got it set up. I've got a bunch of stuff to cut right here so we'll just jump on in and see what we got. Start off with this agate that I don't know where this came from. I don't remember. Okay it's about what I thought. It's very clear. That's cool. See the light coming through that. So yeah interesting looking stuff. Not too bad. I wonder if how to cut it like this if maybe we'd have gotten some cool patterns or designs. I don't know. Here we have another little piece of agate. I believe this came from my subscriber last year who sent me a box. Okay yeah some nice banding in that. I just wish it was colorful but the bands in that are actually pretty cool. There we go. Another agate. Oh oh cool it's got some things going on in it. Oh that's nice looking. Kind of like little tubes. Maybe even some plumes. That's a neat little agate. Here's another one of those little bird's eye gastropod shells and like usual something will break. We've got a little bit of shell on that side. It's something but we've had much better. Here's another agate that I got from my subscriber last year and oh oh it's got lines in it from like the watermark. That's a pretty cool one. I like how it looks different from the stuff I find around here. It's just nice having something different. So here's just like a chunk of like malachite you know copper ore stuff that I found. I think it was at Eureka years ago. It's just been sitting around. Thought I'd cut it open. Okay it's it's green. I was hoping for a little bit more going on in there but it's still kind of cool. Here's another one of those flat dugway geodes and nice. Actually it's got like a purple hue to it. Look at that. It looks a little purple. That is cool. Yeah it's pretty much just filled in because you could caught more thunder egg. In this case it still looks nice. Here's one of those agates that I found a bit drum mountains. Okay that's about what I thought it was going to look like. Had the kind of a nice agate going up here and then down here more of a jasper. Cool. This is some uh travertine that I found on one of the hikes nearby. I thought I'd just try and cut it and it shattered into tons of pieces but that's basically what it looks like on the inside. Kind of a typical travertine where it's kind of that orangeish yellowish brown to white calcite. This is a little piece of wonder stone that was different. I think this maybe came from Nevada. I don't know. Oh I did not expect that red from the outside. I thought it was going to look like that and look at that. There's red right in the center of it. Oh that's cool. I think it came from Nevada. Still really cool. So this is kind of one of those Bertrandite type nodules that didn't seem to have any purple in it but I thought why not cut it anyway. It still looks like it's got some good color. There's red in it. So oh I like some of those zigzags in there. Those are pretty cool looking. Yeah maybe a hint of purple. Not a lot of not really part of any purple in it but still some really cool colors with the red and yellow and really cool patterns. I like that. So this is a big piece of petrified wood. It was very thin so I was hoping maybe it would stay intact. Unfortunately that little piece broke off so we'll just kind of remove that piece and then we'll just take a look at this. Okay yeah I can see wood grain in there. It's not very colorful but still it looks pretty nice. Not too bad. And last but not least a good old classic wonder stone. So based on that pattern normally I would cut it this way but I decided to go against what I usually do and cut it in this direction instead just to see what it would look like. Here we go and once again it does not disappoint. A little bit of black there from the saw. So yeah it looks so nice. I love the wonder stone from Bertrandite. It's just beautiful stuff. That kind of looks like scissors on that side. Really cool. There it is some more beautiful stuff just cut them open. There were a few surprises in there. I wasn't quite expecting some of the stuff that was in them and as always it just it just feels good to get out and get out just cut some stuff open see what's in it and just get excited. So I hope you guys enjoyed and stay tuned. We got some rock counting coming up. I'm so excited to get back. We'll have rock counting videos hopefully every Friday for the rest of the well rock counting season and yeah we'll see what we find. Until next time remember there is treasure everywhere.