Tag Archives: rocks

earning for learning.

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 Saline tween turns rocks into college fund:

Eleven-year-old Tucker Lambert hopes money earned from his startup – he digs rocks out of neighboring farm fields and sells them to landscapers – will pay for him to attend the University of Michigan, M-Live reports.

 The rocks, if left in the ground, would damage farm equipment, so Tucker digs them out and sells them from $1 to $50 depending on the size.

Customers can buy the rocks by setting up an appointment with his father. If you don’t need any rocks, you are welcome to contribute to his GoFundMe campaign here

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tuckers-rocks

Tucker’s Rocks est. 2024 Rocks, Stones Boulders, Landscaping Rocks

From Dad:

My 11 year old son has collected rocks for 2 years now. Tucker is a very busy young man. He collects the rocks from local farmers’ fields. He sells these to save money for his future college fund.

Tucker does all this with one four wheeler and one wagon. He digs the rocks out with a shovel. He is a small operation,  located in Saline, Michigan.

“build your house on the rock of learning;

no one can take your education away from you.”

  – john spence

rock and stroll.

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i cannot even begin to express the many reasons why i so love this

i know it is somewhere in michigan

now to find it

or create my own little rock library

perhaps one day

i can answer ‘rock trader’ as my profession when asked.

 ‘if you become a rock on the mountain high above me,’ said his mother,
‘i will be a mountain climber, and i will climb to where you are.’ 
-margaret  wise brown, the runaway bunny

 

 

photo credit: michigan rockhounds

rock on.

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this is not me, but if i had a rock room it might be me.

i love finding rocks

especially heart-shaped rocks

 

i am always looking for them no matter where i am

 

 when i find one 

 

voila! – it’s magic

 

i only keep the very special ones. 

‘rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed.

they are books. they have a different vocabulary,

a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.’

-john mcphee, american writer and pulitzer prize winner

 

can rocks break?

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the kinder have been very interested in learning about rocks lately

they collected them

sorted them

brought in favorites

made a rock museum

painted with them

shared what they knew

still had questions.

one question was-

can rocks break?

now we all know.

“the violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

-tennessee williams

broken.

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bittersweet.

‘juan and amelia’

painted and left behind

and

‘amelia and juan’

painted and now left broken.

 

“the heart will break, but broken live on.”

-lord Byron

“if you see me, cry.”

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Hunger Stone :

Recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the “Hunger Stones” in some Czech and German rivers.

These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines.

This one, in the Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: “If you see me, cry.”

“when the well is dry, we will know the worth of water.”

-benjamin franklin

 

 

credits: history review

rocks remember.

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my collection of heart shaped rocks

i love discovering these wherever i travel

each one has a story to tell.

“geologists have a saying – rocks remember.”

– neil armstrong

rocks.

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it took a while and a team of busy gatherers

but the kinder were happy to announce

they had collected and lined up

79 rocks

and that equals 1 museum. 

 

“as with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.’

-john burroughs

diamond.

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“I found this diamond and I’m going to give it to my mom. she will love it!”
“It’s diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.”
-jolene blalock

leave no stone unturned. – euripides

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he spent all of his recess

digging in the

hard muddy ground

with a

broken plastic shovel

and a little team

of even littler friends

and at long last

all of this hard work

paid off

and he

presented this

very special

treasure

a rock

in all

its

muddy glory.

geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
– neil armstrong