Hunting the elusive Michigan Pudding stone

[Jeff]

It's favosite, an extinct corral.  Around 300 million years old.

[WDH]

I was referring to your hand :D. 

[Jeff]

So was I.

[Banjo picker]

I'm glad you all like each other.  Jeff those stones are beautiful.  Hunting them is probably akin to hunting arrowheads....I sometimes find myself in a creek up to my knees when I should be cutting the grass or something else.  Are those mainly native to Michigan?  Tim

[Jeff]

The pudding stones are mostly an eastern half of Michigan and lake huron drainage thing. Pushed down from ontario by glaciers.

[SwampDonkey]

Some nice additions to the herd. ;) Probably a nice time to tromp around up there, if like here, the biting flies have pretty much gave up for the year. Have not seen a deer fly in a week and no black flies for weeks.

[Jeff]

The deer flies were around but not bad. Some skeeters near dark, but we are into the glorious days of the U.P. now.

[thecfarm]

Nice looking stones. Nothing like what I have growing around here.   ;D

[gspren]

At our Delaware beach house there are some pudding stones mixed in with the landscaping rocks, Magic spotted them first and now I've found others, mostly 4-6" rounded type rocks from probably New Jersey where they also have Pudding stones. I don't have to leave the sidewalk to hunt them which is funny because if you go out in the wooded areas near there hunting deer you can walk all day without seeing a rock.

[trimguy]

 

 

 Someone say puddin stone

[Jeff]

HEY! Those aint Georgia stones! A couple decent ones in there.

[trimguy]

😁 No they're not. These are some my uncle collected. We're up here working on a broke cabin project that we have. Maybe some day will be able to spend the summer up here to get out of the Georgia heat. It won't be any time soon , the cabin is broke and the whole day job thing.

[Jeff]

So where are you at from me?? (I dont want your puddin stones ;) )

[trimguy]

North. Cheboygan, just south east of Machinaw City .I have a lot of family here and this is where I was raised.

[Jeff]

Well you aint far from my route to the cabin. How long will you be in the area?

[Jeff]

I found this little guy in the front yard today...


 

 

 

 

[trimguy]

I think we leave Friday morning. I will verify tomorrow morning.

[trimguy]

Yes , we head south Friday morning. When are you going up ? We could meet in Machinaw and it wouldn't be out of your way ?

[Jeff]

It's unclear yet, but I am hopeing before then. Things keep popping up to slow me down, like an adult child that fell off her friends truck running board while moving and breaking her foot in 3 places and now cant drive to the drs.

My trailer is ready. I loaded it yesterday to leave today. Anope

 

[Don P]

Owww! that's going to cut into her summer. Hope she heals fast and well.

[trimguy]

I sent you a PM. It would be great to meet Tammy, well you to I guess. :D :D

[Jeff]

 :D 
got your pm. When we get the haywire bent straight I'll call ya.

[trimguy]

Great !

 

 

 I found some more of his stash.

[Jeff]

Now yer showin off. :D

[newoodguy78]

 

 
Not the elusive Michigan pudding stone, more of a Massachusetts Oreo cookie stone. Done a fair amount of digging on this farm and these are always neat to find. Dug this one out of a boulder pile 4-5 years ago when I was rebuilding a stone foundation. Happened by it this morning it's cleaned up nicely. Thinking of displaying it somewhere. 
I think it's granite and quartz but maybe someone with more stone knowledge can correct me.