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Post by nowyo on Jul 29, 2014 19:47:08 GMT -5
All great stuff there.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 23:47:06 GMT -5
Sort of like petrified wood farm is trying to do, eh?
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 21:49:32 GMT -5
I am in S.W. Montana. Though there is agate along the entire Yellowstone river, my experience has been that there is very little moss agate upstream from Forsyth. Harmon's Agate shop in Savage is a good place to see some great agates. They have a 25 lb. Montana Moss agate there, and it is a good place to view agates in the rough as well as finished jewelry. www.harmons.net/I would try to make it there as soon as one can after spring high water, as the pro hunters have all the best stuff found soon after. Many use drift boats and can get to all the good spots that there is no other access to by road. The public accesses are somewhat limited so they get hunted extensively. This site will give you a list of places you can get to the river by car. fwp.mt.gov/lands/sitesbyllid.aspxSadly, yet another URL is down... fwp.mt.gov page is no longer active. Dude, you're pulling up threads from five years ago all over the place. Makes no sense. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 21:01:35 GMT -5
Very cool. Must be neat to graze the yard when fruit is ripe. I miss our yard back in Commiefornia where we had many fruit tree varieties. Only peaches here and too many pests to compete for them. By the time the coons, ringtails, fox squirrels giant Mexican ground squirrels, woodpeckers, jays and porcupines finished this year we got nuttin *L*....Mel Yeah, I love wandering around out there just eating stuff. We also freeze, can, and dry a bunch of stuff. It's quite a lot of work, but it saves giving the grocery store quite so much of our money. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 20:57:52 GMT -5
Nice pictures Russ. On the sand/bush cherries, they are a pain because of the low flesh to pit-size ratio. We have found if we put them in a pot and kinda crush them a bit, then cook it at a fairly low temperature, then the pits will cook out and fall to the bottom of the pot. Then we can scoop the great tasting flesh off the top. A lot of work, but they make GREAT jams (or jellies if that is your thing -- Jean LOL ;-) Yeah, we do that too, or rather Cyndi does, for the jelly stuff. I'm just dumb enough (and like pies enough) that I'll pit enough of the little boogers for a couple of pies. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 20:49:55 GMT -5
nice stuff, James.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 20:44:03 GMT -5
I've finally been slabbing up a few of the rocks we picked up at that place I forgot how to get to. Cutting some kind of at random just to see what's in there. Some are kind meh, some are actually pretty darn cool, so don't give up after the first couple. Jim's been posting a bunch of jade pics from there and I don't have any that is better, so I'll stay with some of the other finds. Too bad this guy wound up being more fractures than rock. This is a slab out from a hunk of coral I found over there and forgot about until I saw it in the pile yesterday. This next one was actually found by Cyndi on our first trip to this spot. I found this one the day we were there with Jim. This is the first end cut trying to make it fit in the vise. Sure wish I could remember where that place was. Thanks for looking. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 15:13:51 GMT -5
Well, great going. Hope he keeps with it. I'm not even gonna try that. Could never even draw a decent stick figure.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 10:01:09 GMT -5
Well, I posted some pictures this spring of things blossoming. We've been picking bush cherries the past week. Kind of small and a PITA to deal with but they make a great pie. Have some soaking in Everclear right now. Took this pic a few days ago, we've picked several gallons of these now. Garlic is coming along. The softnecks are pretty much ready, I'll start pulling them this week. The hardnecks have another week or two to go. The raspberries have been just starting the past few days. Picked a quart this morning. Looks like we'll have a mess of plums again this year. They're usually ripe right around Labor Day. This old Wealthy apple tree is 40 or 50 years old. Guess we'll have some pies this fall. We planted two semi-dwarf Macintosh apple trees six years ago, last year we had one apple. This year both trees are bearing. Guess I'd better quit playing on the computer and get to work. Thanks for looking. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 26, 2014 1:14:27 GMT -5
Well, crap. That's what I've been using, too. When inflation hits the cost of your laxatives you know you're in deep doo doo.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 26, 2014 1:08:33 GMT -5
Nah, I bought a new 10" 303C a year or so ago and it didn't look like that. hell. it still doesn't look like that and I've abused it pretty bad.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 26, 2014 1:04:42 GMT -5
Well, gee, Jim, glad you liked those rocks.
Yeah, that's nephrite, we've checked and double checked everything we can without spending a lot of money. I've got a couple of pieces here with some red inclusions but not quite like that. I've got a feeling we'll be back over there before too long. I cut a few of the agates from there today, I'll get some pics up in a day or two.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 26, 2014 0:41:23 GMT -5
Thanks, folks. Yeah, the photography part is really the hardest. Thanks for the tips, I'll be using them. I just keep reading about how everybody else does it and trying what works with what I have to work with here. Had kind of an "Ah Ha" moment today, so I'll try that next time.
We are truly lucky that we have some nice rocks around here. It's been a little bit of a learning curve figuring out what will work and what won't but I think we're getting there.
You all have a wonderful day, now.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 25, 2014 0:19:55 GMT -5
Being a degreed engineer I listened to the mechanics and not the engineers. i had to keep things running. If you are in charge of keeping the machinery running you best listen to the mechanics. They did call them pulleys, so did I. Touche. Worked with a lot of engineers over the years (former Maintenance Supervisor in a pharmaceutical plant), I bet you were one of the good ones. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 25, 2014 0:02:13 GMT -5
Nice. Maybe next time you'll find some colorful rocks. Sheesh.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 24, 2014 23:56:20 GMT -5
Dumped these out of the tumbler Sunday evening, finally got some pictures taken, downloaded, uploaded, unloaded. These are all just local stuff we find, plus a few from Brenda, AZ that we picked up on the field trip when we went to Quartzsite back in January. Playing with the picture taking, some of these are outside in full sun (heck, maybe they all are, can't remember now). One of these days I'll accidentally take a good photo. The whole pile Since it's a little different, the Brenda rocks. Back to the locals. Here are a few "Montanas" even though we find them in Wyoming. And one backlit just because I wanted to take a picture while staring at the sun. Thanks for looking. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 24, 2014 23:30:11 GMT -5
Smashing stuff is always fun.
Nice looking tumbles there.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 21, 2014 11:18:34 GMT -5
Good to hear from you, Rob. I'm just a cranky old Luddite, I guess. I've never understood geocaching, but if it gets you all out in the woods I guess it's a good thing. Reckon that gps is a tool, but people seem to rely on their gadgets more and more and their thinking less and less. Good on you for getting her out there. I guess I'll just wander around with my topo map and compass and kick at the rocks. It's all good.
I pretty much gave up on clubs and such a long time ago due to the stuff Lee mentions. Everybody wants to go to the party but the same little group always ends up doing all the work.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 21, 2014 1:03:43 GMT -5
Probably because it's become so common in usage, nobody {well almost} would know what it means. Yup. When we were talking to the engineers we said pulley. When we went to order the part we looked up sheave. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 21, 2014 0:56:58 GMT -5
Those are all great, Roy. No favorites, but what is No. 6? Might help with an id question. Thanks for sharing.
Russ
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