Thursday, March 31, 2005

Fossil hunting at Home Depot

I've got a job at Home Depot bringing in carts, loading people's cars with bags of mulch, and helping people find plants that butterflies like while deer don't. Anyway, it's part-time so I should have more time to do whatever. The other day I arrived at work early a day or so after a big storm and decided to smoke a cigarette before work. It then occurred to me that the rock face next to a parking lot in the Texas Hill Country was precisely the kind of striated rock that I've seen paleontologists find fossils in on TV. I also remembered that after a storm was supposed to be the best time to find fossils so I decided I would look for a fossil. Within five minutes, I found one. It's not a very impressive fossil. It's just almost half a clam shell, but I found it neat.

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