You are a gem of a parent, TEd, and your "children" seem to be real pearls. I take a more jaded approach, myself. Maybe I get a little too flinty at times -- or my voice is too gravely -- but my stones tend to be a little petrified of me. Maybe we're just from different social strata than you and yours. It occurs to me azurite, that you have probably taken quite a lichen to your rocks.
We do have some guys who have pretty interesting stories, though. Our copper is a state trooper. Opal, Ruby and Amethyst are milked for they're worth at the local lapidary. Sodalite is a diet soft drink entrepreneur; people drink his beverage by the quartz. Some of our A-fossils went to the local ba silica to study the prophets Mica and Malachite. They also enjoy the coral music there.
Well, I guess I'd better stop geoding you before you're ready to bauxite my ears. But if you accuse me of hounding you or picking a fight, I will have an instant lapis of memory.
