Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 30, 2015 8:32:10 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Cut four slabs off each of these nodules while I was weed whacking and feeding the chiggers the other day....Mel Rare green moss with plumy stuff, my favorite cuts lately. Nice red filament moss. The vugs are dirty cause my coolant is looking like chocolate pudding lately ( got to clean the saw soon). Actually, nice little quartz crystal pockets in this agate.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 30, 2015 10:42:48 GMT -5
Now both of those would look fantastic with crystal clear quartz caps on them, like what broseph82 's "Holy Smokes!" thread pictured. forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/post/820292/thread The first one would be like looking into a kelp forest. Thanks for taking the time to post those, Mel. Always enjoy looking at your Rio slices. Jean
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 30, 2015 11:25:45 GMT -5
I especially love the red- very nice!
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Post by pghram on Jul 30, 2015 12:16:35 GMT -5
Great colors & patterns, they will make some eye-catching cabs.
Rich
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Jul 30, 2015 19:18:52 GMT -5
Dang Mel, that red and white one is purdy!
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riverbendlapidary
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Post by riverbendlapidary on Jul 30, 2015 21:05:47 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 30, 2015 21:32:55 GMT -5
Stand for my new (used) 10" saw came today. Hopefully I'll be cutting the box of Mel's Rios that I've been sitting on for a couple months by the weekend.
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Post by snowmom on Jul 31, 2015 5:36:25 GMT -5
gorgeous stuff. that red made be sigh. Lovely, lovely stuff! chiggers bane of my existence, allergic, though they are bad enough without that. scars all over my legs from years of them. Haven't run into them here since we moved to MI. (yet). I dread them more than any other crawling vermin. Do you use repellant or just tough it out? I know sometimes it is too late when you figure out they were present.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 31, 2015 7:46:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I use DEET repellent. I kind of works for awhile but it really pisses off fire ants. When they smell DEET, they quite literally run over to sting you. Sitting here with a brand new sting this morning as I type. First day of a fire ant sting is miserable!......Mel
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2015 8:37:42 GMT -5
Are you aware that the chiggers are not biting you but are crawling into the hair follicle and living there? The Epsom salts kills them and your body unloads them. Nice little beasts. Jim
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Post by drocknut on Jul 31, 2015 9:08:15 GMT -5
That green moss definitely caught my eye. Beautiful. The red is pretty cool too.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 31, 2015 12:15:23 GMT -5
Actually Jim is correct. Chiggers do not really bite but they are not confined to hair follicles either. The larval chiggers basically crawl onto your skin and penetrate it to inject a tissue dissolving enzyme. The enzyme creates a little pocket or crater called a stylostome in which the larval chigger resides and feeds till satiated. Then it eventually drops off to become an adult which is not a parasite.
Some folks confuse chiggers with chigoes or Jiggers which are a burrowing flea and really disgusting....Mel
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Post by captbob on Jul 31, 2015 12:49:31 GMT -5
Nice Rios! I remember putting fingernail polish over chiggers to suffocate them. Folks still do that? Sulfur powder to keep them off while outside and Lava soap to wash them off when coming inside. This was decades ago in Atlanta. jamesp do you have chigger problems up there now?
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Post by jamesp on Jul 31, 2015 13:56:49 GMT -5
Nice Rios! I remember putting fingernail polish over chiggers to suffocate them. Folks still do that? Sulfur powder to keep them off while outside and Lava soap to wash them off when coming inside. This was decades ago in Atlanta. jamesp do you have chigger problems up there now? They are common in some areas. Not at my place but terrible at Lake Jackson. Bad in dense pines while deer hunting. Spanish Moss in Florida holds them. I use a bit of Malathion in a hose end sprayer and spray my camp in FL 100 feet around at arrival. They hate it. Ticks too.
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 31, 2015 16:12:51 GMT -5
The green moss is killer...............
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