{"id":106,"date":"2004-04-13T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-08-14T21:07:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T02:07:43","slug":"rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday afternoon, with temperatures at a near-balmy 72 degrees, I was lamenting the end of my precious jacket weather.<\/a> Nothing left for me but short sleeved shirts and sad times.<\/p>\n

This afternoon, it was 39 degrees . . . and falling. Gotta love the spring yo-yo weather here in Alabama. I proudly donned my long coat as I left work, cold and happy. They’re even mentioning snow showers for tonight. Oh, it would be so lovely.<\/p>\n

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I saw my parents and sister this afternoon; they were coming through Fort Payne on their way back from New York City and surrounding Yankee burgs. They brought me back my favorite present, too: rocks. <\/p>\n

No, seriously. They brought me rocks, and I’m the happier for it. Rocks are another slight obsession of mine, along with books, jackets, and people named Hans . . . . . Anyway, I got a rock from Central Park, two from Little Round Top, one from Seminary Ridge, and one other, but I’ve forgotten and I don’t want to get up to go look; I’d rather explain my laziness. <\/p>\n

I need to figure out what to do with all my rocks, especially the ones from neat places. I got a bunch from Europe when I went in 1999. I even have a piece of a brick from the hotel we stayed at in Florence. Ken pulled it out of the wall for me. <\/p>\n

My most favorite rock from the Europe trip, though, is the one I pulled out of one of the foundations of an ancient Roman building. About the size of a finger, it was mixed with other bits of rock and stuff in a Roman cement that supported the weight of people like Cesar, Marcus Aurelius, and those lesser-famed Romans. For 2000 years it stayed there and watched the world go by, until I came along and picked it up that hot July day while our group rested in the shade, hearing about how a pagan temple still exists today because it was converted into a Christian church, thus saving it from destruction. <\/p>\n

How cool is that rock? It sure beats any cheap naked Roman statuette that you could get at any kiosk in the city. Besides, I have a Roman God of a husband now that I can see at my leisure. <\/p>\n

Yeah, baby.<\/p>\n

I wonder what I should do with my menagerie of worldly rocks. My first thought is to get a nifty shadowbox-type thing and arrange them all specimen-like, with labels. That’s the scientist in me talking. The artist in me wonders if I should try something more elaborate, like carve the rocks into the shape of the place they came from and make a rocky map. But that sounds sorta hard. I’ll figure out something else.<\/p>\n

Until then, I’ll stay on the lookout for more neat rocks, like that concave one I took from Little River Canyon even though that’s sorta not allowed. I’ll do something spectacular with them someday; maybe when I get a yard. <\/p>\n

If you see a cool rock, bring it to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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