About Us

Pebblepup.com is designed and managed by John Merritt.

After rock hounding for about six months I decided to start this site to share the many experiences that have happened to me while participating in the hobby. I also thought that this would be a good way to meet others from which I could meet up with and learn from. Another reason was I thought that I could sell some of my creations to help support my hobby.

I am still learning more about the hobby of rock hounding all the time. I will continue to learn more about the hobby whenever I can and will be sharing a lot of it on this site. You can expect stories about my successes and failures. I will also continue to post photos of the many places rock hounding has taken me. As many of you know this hobby takes you to many places off the beaten path that few others will ever see.

The best source for knowledge when it comes to rock hounding and lapidary arts is other rock hounds. This site gives you the ability to post comments in response to almost every article. Please feel free to make comments even if you are in disagreement. I may or may not agree with every comment and that doesn’t matter. If a comment makes my readers, or me, stop and think or encourages them to share information it adds to the quality of this site. I do monitor all posting to the site to make sure everything is family friendly so comments may not appear to other viewers until after I get a chance to approve them. Also, if you want to share or ask questions in private please use the contact page of this site.

Thank you visiting this site. I hope you enjoy it and come back often.