Traveling Box

were we at on the list ??

Ok buddy, I just got the box. Its arrival coincides with school orientation earlier today, school starting tomorrow 6th grade,  gymnastics started an hour ago, my elderly folks suddenly decided to move to a retirement community so I’ve been moving stuff all weekend and my house is chaos… *oh, we got a new puppy as well a few days ago and that’s been just great(passout)

So ya’ll please bear with me. I’ll try to get through this within 7-10 days and off to the next destination. Speaking of which… orneryboi please send me your mailing info when you have a chance. Many thanks everyone!!

We are having had an absolute blast going through the box. We’ve been doing it as a family so it’s taking forever, especially with my neck issue (fused c2-7). We are about 3/4th of the way through right now and we haven’t fully picked out what we’re going to choose…But I have gone through my stock and chosen some of our favorite pieces to put in the box. Here’s the group shot of what Im hoping to fit in. I don’t really have a ton of fancy rocks but I’ve collected some unique petrified wood among other Texas chalcedony and agates we’ve found in our wonderings around south central Texas. I do have a habit of polishing all of my small slabs that I cut because I tend leave a few bad saw marks. So I do a combination of gentle tumbling in a 3 pound Tumblr and then weeks of polishing in my raytech 5 or lot-o.
Starting up top going clockwise-
2 natural pieces of central Texas petrified wood. I think the whitish one is agatized under that lime coating.
At the 2 o’clock position is an uncut 1970’s batch Botswana agate. It looks like it could be beautiful inside, but I’m not sure how to cut it.
From 3-6 are two slabs from a very unique black and white pet wood chunk I found in the Llano river awhile back. The red one below is from a small, beautifully agateized petrified wood piece we found recently. It’s unlike any other pet wood we’ve found. Next a a small pocket rot pet wood slab That my great grandfather collected. Then there’s another small pet wood slab I like.
At 7 o’clock is a quartz or agate coral piece, I think. Next is a small Texas chalcedony/agate under the white lime crud. Then a couple pieces Leland blue and a couple gobi agates my wife had bought. In the center is a slab of that crazy agate/braceated chert and jasper we found a year back. Hopefully somebody will be able to make beautiful cabs from it. Below is a slab cut from a blue chalcedony that my great grand father had collected 100 years ago or so.
Lastly, below the gobe I agates is an interesting…petrified mud rock? Banded chert like I’ve never seen? It’s softer than chert though, I think it’s only a six on the mohs scale. But it has a beautiful pattern, so I’m hoping somebody can make something unique out of it. Please let me know if these are downright boring or don’t meet expectations of the box. I also need a few more days to finish going through this. My goal is to get it out by Friday or Saturday. This is an amazing experience we are having so far! I really appreciate the opportunity to be part of it and apologize for dragging my feet. I’m working on it though.

orneryboi
The box is on its way! I’ll message you the tracking info shortly. I repacked the box best I could. Some slabs had broken, like the hells canyon pet woods, rose quartz slabs (except for one) and a few others. So I added some cushioning in areas using bubble wrap, but there’s literally zero room left so could only do so much. Here’s what we took… thank you so much for the opportunity to take part in this!

Uh oh… it’s off course. Now In route to Borneo 😂

I have it all spread out on my coffee table now!! I'll go through everything tonight, package up my contributions and provides pics on changes made. I'll get it in the mail by tomorrow.
@hplcman go ahead and DM me your address so I'll have it handy.

That was a lot of fun looking through everything and being a part of this. Even had fun tetris'ng everything back in:) The package was shipped out to Justin on Monday, he has the shipping number. 
Traded out a slab of royal Sahara, tigers eye, sodalite and a chunk of fordite. Also took a piece of millie fiore, Indonesian palm and two small bumblebee jaspers. Replaced with some labradorite slab chunks, two Stinkingwater oaks, a crazy Biggs, two totem jaspers, a purple cow agate, a small Morrisonite and two slabs of mystery porcelain I found near the Morrisonite claim.
Thank you guys for making this happen!

Patrick

Hello!



I got the box on Saturday and will go through it this week. I hope to send it along to its final destination with Tommy  by this weekend.  

Take care,

Justin

Totally- take more.