9/13/25- A TALE OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Please forgive me as I get a little bit serious with all of you for one paragraph. I assume that most of us in the club are Christians, and we believe that we will be resurrected sometime after death. Most all of us believe that our physical bodies and our spirit bodies will be reunited during this process called resurrection. Today as I sat in church my thoughts were turned to the resurrection. I believe that all of us (humans) will be resurrected. But, here is an important question. Do dogs, cats, horses, deer, birds, and other living creatures also have spirits, and will they be resurrected? Personally, I believe the answer is yes. Wow, does that mean we might have a chance of seeing and living again with all those wonderful animals we called our pets? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, just wait until we meet all those deer and other animals we killed while hunting. And that poor little skunk that you ran over with your car………………….well…………………maybe that future reunion may not be so great. Now, another question for all of us to think about. What about all those dinosaurs, trees, fish, sea shells, crinoids, and other sea creatures that have lived on this earth? Do they have spirits, and will all of them be resurrected? Think about that for a while.
Our new rock hunting season started off with a great field trip on September 13 (2025). We spent several hours on Forest Road 103 located about 12 miles south of Highway 260 just off the Young Road. The weather was absolutely amazing with 70 degrees in temperature just about the whole day. Twenty-seven club members and guests had a marvelous time wandering around the pine and juniper trees hunting for a variety of fossils and agate. We were fortunate to find a variety of fossils including ammonites, crinoids, sea sponges, and countless small cockles or clams. One of the club members said he saw a living fossil driving around in a red side-by-side. It is unbelievable what can be seen on a rock hunting field trip.
Other things of interest seen during the day were a large number of people riding hogs (you know, those motorcycle machines), several living deer, 2 dead deer, squirrels, and several wild horses north of Saguaro Lake.
The weather was great, the fossils were plentiful, the hunters camped next to our fossil hunting site did not shoot us, and the people we spent time with were some of the best on Planet Earth.
Until the next adventure
Dan Jarvis
September 14, 2025