Time

This interesting rock was found while my family and I were "rock hounding" in Oregon a few years back. After some Internet searches and a visit to a planetarium, we're pretty sure this is a meteorite. Over the years we have found some pretty cool stuff. We've found arrow heads, fossils, jade, sea glass, petrified wood, lava rocks and a bunch of ordinary cool stuff, like bee hives, robin eggs, salamanders, shells, cray fish, feathers and animal skeletons. My youngest two even had a "secret science box" (as they called it) full of things parents should never know was kept in a bedroom closet. What I find so alluring about finding these things is not the items we've found, but the time that was spent with my family to do so. It has literally taken us hundreds of hours to find this stuff. Hundreds of hours in each other's company. Hundreds of hours not watching TV or playing videos or texting or some other anti-social activity. Hundreds of hours together. How cool is that?