It's grand to see a family in to such a great hobby, sounds like you have a
great time with your collecting and have managed to get the whole family
involved .........Thumbs up, mark
 
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> From: Unio <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Please pardon the intrusion
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 10:51 PM
>
> Dear all,
>          Please pardon the intrusion into your EMail boxes.  My boys got
a
> jealous that Daddy was spending a little more time on the computer with
Ashley
> rather than with them.  They wanted to say hi and let you know that they
are
> being exposed to shell collecting too (whether they like or not).  Our
whole
> family experiences shells; sometimes more than Mommy would like.  She
tries to
> keep it confined to my study; a task she finds harder to perform every
year.
> She has given in somewhat.  She allows us to maintain an aquarium which
houses
> a few obligatory fish, but its population consists primarily freshwater
> mussels and snails.  Just last week we managed to sneak in a terrarium
which
> is occupied by three species of terrestrial snails and a few obligatory
> plants.  So our kids are experiencing not just shells, but the whole
animal as
> well.  It wasn't designed to be this way, but our whole family enjoys
> conchology.  I'm afraid that living with me they did not have much of a
> choice.  (Sound familiar to anyone?)
>       So since family involvement as a topic has just sort of "evolved",
I'd
> like to hear from others who are involved in the hobby as a family.
Share
> your family experiences.
>
> Doug Shelton
> Mobile, Alabama