What the heck-fire?!?

 

OK, peeps. I've been cruising blog sites for a while now - looking for a good read and I've noticed something; everyone who posts is beautiful, has 2.5 adorable well dressed children, well groomed dogs, they travel to fabulous places over the holidays, they go out as families and pick blueberries then go home to make pies. WHO ARE THESE FOLKS??? They're like Stepford people!!!

I post horrible pictures of myself and the kidlets. I brag about my love of burning bonfires and drinking beer. I admitted to accidentally flashing my boobie at my
co-worker! I tell stupid, silly (but true) stories about my goofy life. I like goofiness. I don't want to get dressed up in nice clothes and travel as a family to a fruit patch, clutching pretty baskets so we can pick berries and make pies.

I want to take my girlies to the roller derby for a once in a lifetime experience! I want them to see a concert. I keep track of roadkill I've seen and I'm not even a wildlife ranger. I gripe about gaining weight. I laugh at myself when I try to put on my Wanks (remember, they're the cheap version of Spanx). I grab people's feet under toilet stalls thinking I'm pranking my kidlets. I ruin dinner in my lame attempts at cooking.

In short, I want to laugh for a few minutes. Hearing about how someone totally

re-did their house in one weekend and was featured in Better Homes & Gardens just makes me depressed. I'd rather hear about someone accidentally farting in front of their preacher, or losing their dentures when trying to eat, or falling down when crossing the stage to accept their diploma. You know - stupid human stuff. I like knowing that there are other goofy, clumsy, slightly deranged people just like me out there.

Here are some doozies:

 Stylish children 

 Handsome Hubby - very professional

Handsome hubby, Perfectly groomed pets! Strong family values with no reference to any kind of violence...ever.

And did you see a single fruit basket or homemade pie in any of these pictures? Hell no you didn't. I'm a weird-o. I want my family to be weird-os, too.

Does anyone know what causes these holes?

See these? These are rocks that I find down around our little house in the woods. Our driveway is "paved" in quarried rocks and once in a while these holey rocks turn up.

Here's how my holey rock fetish started:
I was going through a painful divorce and hanging out with Manchild in the woods was soul soothing. Being a city girl, I was used to blowing and going all the time and down there, that just doesn't happen. Everything stands still. And quiet.

Anyway, being the sufferer of ADD/ADHD/PMS/LOCO/PETA/MADD, etc., I got pretty antsy doing nothing. I've always liked rocks so I started walking the driveway looking for pretty rocks to pass the time. I found a rock with a hole in it and I thought it was very interesting. The hole was perfectly round (not like the ones in the pictures I'm showing you). At the time, I was begging my maker to give me a sign that divorcing was the right thing for me to do and I told myself that if I found another holey rock it meant I was on the right path. I found 2 more.

It became a habit for me to ask the great maker questions and leave it up to the discovery - or not of more holey rocks to determine the answer. Now let me point out that I've spent my life walking with my head down looking at rocks, so I'd know it if I had seen these holey rocks before which I hadn't. I've been looking for them for about 4 years and I have about 100 of them in various sizes. I even had a friend make a necklace out of one of them.

So, have you ever seen anything like this? Does anyone know what makes the holes?
The area where these rocks were quarried is in eastern Texas. Here's a map so you can see:

That area was home to the Caddo Indians and some of the rocks look like they could have been turned into a bead. Others are way too natural to have been drilled by human hands. Most of the rocks are sort of sandy feeling, ie: they aren't smooth and shiny. 99% of them are tan colored.

This mystery is driving me crazy. I sure hope someone out there knows what made the holes. I'll keep looking for them but I just want to know WHY???