septicdeath
having dreams about rocks
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 8, 2024 20:13:15 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 8, 2024 20:32:37 GMT -5
I'm working on a few Owyhee Jasper cabs today    Nice! I love Owyhee. |
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realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Nov 8, 2024 21:21:16 GMT -5
Michael Jackson favorite jasper. Owyhee-hee!
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rockinronda
spending too much on rocks
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Post by rockinronda on Nov 9, 2024 15:16:17 GMT -5
You just made me spit out my Hot N Spicy Ramen 😝
They certainly are beauts tho! LOVE the one looks like a stag walking through some trees.
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dshanpnw
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by dshanpnw on Nov 9, 2024 18:39:01 GMT -5
Nice, they are looking very good. Thanks for sharing.
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septicdeath
having dreams about rocks
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 13, 2024 19:06:38 GMT -5
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Post by whalecottagedesigns on Nov 13, 2024 19:29:17 GMT -5
Great cabs, lovely material!
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Post by pebblesky on Nov 14, 2024 12:07:47 GMT -5
They look great!
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septicdeath
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 14, 2024 16:40:27 GMT -5
And yet another one im calling it the smiling fox.  |
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realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Nov 14, 2024 16:50:05 GMT -5
If you turn it the other way around. It looks like Bigfoot dancing around the campfire
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Post by whalecottagedesigns on Nov 14, 2024 18:52:25 GMT -5
Very cool! :-)
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septicdeath
having dreams about rocks
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 14, 2024 19:07:34 GMT -5
If you turn it the other way around. It looks like Bigfoot dancing around the campfire Sweet, yes it does. |
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septicdeath
having dreams about rocks
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 14, 2024 19:10:46 GMT -5
I'm done grinding today. Not Owyhee, but from the same general area. A nice Cripple Creek Jasper Cabochon.   |
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Post by whalecottagedesigns on Nov 14, 2024 20:14:10 GMT -5
That last one is such a beaut! Perfect landscape!
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 15, 2024 11:28:26 GMT -5
Dang, that is nice stuff, the owyhee definitely makes me smile.
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septicdeath
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 15, 2024 20:09:26 GMT -5
I cut four cabs today. Here are two. They are from the Owyhee and possibly Succor Creek area. There are so many mines and pits in this part of Oregon and Idaho.   |
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Post by whalecottagedesigns on Nov 15, 2024 20:15:03 GMT -5
Beauties, both of them!
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 16, 2024 13:02:41 GMT -5
Speaking of Owyhee, do you know where the name came from? It's how the old-time explorers of the region mispronounced "Hawaii." There used to be (and maybe still is) a road sign that explained that a scouting expedition in the early days hired Hawaiians when sailing past the islands. One Hawaiian member became lost a in the area and a search party was organized to find the man from “Owyhee.’” And the name stuck. I love Owyhee Jasper and here’s my contribution to the thread:  |
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septicdeath
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Post by septicdeath on Nov 16, 2024 13:28:26 GMT -5
Speaking of Owyhee, do you know where the name came from? It's how the old-time explorers of the region mispronounced "Hawaii." There used to be (and maybe still is) a road sign that explained that a scouting expedition in the early days hired Hawaiians when sailing past the islands. One Hawaiian member became lost a in the area and a search party was organized to find the man from “Owyhee.’” And the name stuck. I love Owyhee Jasper and here’s my contribution to the thread: 1 IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Fur hunters discovered the Owyhee country early in the nineteenth century. Several trappers went to work in the general neighborhood at least as early as 1812, and a temporary fur trade post was established on Snake River opposite the mouth of the Owyhee for use during the winter of 1813-1814. But early in 1814, a band of hostile Bannock Indians wiped out the enterprise. Finally Donald Mackenzie, a partner in the Northwest Company, brought a large Snake country expedition to the region in 1818. (The Northwest Company, a Montreal concern, monopolized the fur trade of the interior Pacific Northwest in those years. Then in 1821, the Northwest Company consolidated with its older British rival, the Hudson's Bay Company.) Mackenzie had a varied group under his command. His force included a substantial number of French-Canadians and of Iroquois refugees from New York. In addition, he had many other kinds of distant Indians, and several Owyhees. ("Owyhee" and Hawaii" are two different spellings for the same word. Natives of what then were known as the Sandwich Islands went by the name "Owyhees." Missionaries who came to those islands in 1820 devised an alphabet to use in writing the native language: the word spelled "Owyhee" in the English alphabet came out "Hawaii" in the new missionary version.) When Mackenzie's trapping expedition reached Boise Valley in 1818, the Iroquois chose to remain there for the winter, and some Owyhees decided to explore the country to the southwest. When Mackenzie's expedition reassembled for an early fur trade rendezvous in Boise Valley in the spring of 1819, the Owyhees did not show up. In fact, they never did turn up. But ever since then, the country in which they disappeared has been called the Owyhee country. |
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Post by parfive on Nov 16, 2024 14:14:33 GMT -5
Hawai’i ok but not Owyhe’e. : )
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