Cache Rock and Gem Club member from N. UT. We visit all sites UT and push into NV, ID, WY with some members hanging out in Quartzite over the winter. Unfortunately, I am in UT during the winter but it's still a great place to rock and my friends bring back some great rock to share. I do rock hounding, cutting, polishing and setting. My metalsmithing is just adequate as it is hard to find time to set up and go at it. I have recently purchased on old flat lap for faceting.....yes, I am a glutton for time punishment. No, I do not know how to facet just yet.
In addition to rocks, I also am in to biology....work as a gov research pharm tech and now realize all too late I should have gone in to paleontology instead. Critters in my house range from the standard black lab, cherry head red foot tort, female betta with companion dwarf frog, two dwarf walking toads, dwarf Cameroon gecko, albino gecko, and and the classic black tarantula from Brazil. Of course there is the hubs of over 30 yrs, and son, moved back home, and a weekend granddaughter.
Yes, I am all over the place, but then, you only live once.