Post by bobby1 on Apr 7, 2013 1:49:55 GMT -5
This morning I met my cousin (for the first time in 53 years) and presented her with the pendant. Needless to say it was a very emotional event for both of us. We were both crying and hugging for quite a while. Suprisingly when she first came up to me she handed me a rock. It was the piece that the Petrified Wood slab came from. My uncle apparently told my cousin that if anything happened to him that she was to see that I got this piece. He didn't tell her why. I wasn't aware that he still had the rough that the slab came from. Lots of suprises. We spent the rest of the day reminising about him and his long since deceased wife.
What a day. He had a lot of stuff scattered about his place amongst 3 old buildings that she and her husband had been working on for the past few weeks. He was a prolific collector and saver so it is a daunting task. She asked if I knew about an old lapidary machine that was in one of the buildings so I took a look. It was piled high with stuff and a lot of dust. To my suprise it was the machine that I had cut my first cabs on back in the late 1950's! Needless to say it is coming to my place in the near future. It is a 7 hour drive to get to his place but the effort is well worth it. I dug through one of his rock piles and to my suprise there are at least 100 ancient stone scraping tools and points mostly of Jasper from the indigenous Indians that were in the area when the first settlers came there. I haven't a clue if he found all of these or what.
Obviously I will be making more trips up there to help my cousin clean up the place.
Bob
What a day. He had a lot of stuff scattered about his place amongst 3 old buildings that she and her husband had been working on for the past few weeks. He was a prolific collector and saver so it is a daunting task. She asked if I knew about an old lapidary machine that was in one of the buildings so I took a look. It was piled high with stuff and a lot of dust. To my suprise it was the machine that I had cut my first cabs on back in the late 1950's! Needless to say it is coming to my place in the near future. It is a 7 hour drive to get to his place but the effort is well worth it. I dug through one of his rock piles and to my suprise there are at least 100 ancient stone scraping tools and points mostly of Jasper from the indigenous Indians that were in the area when the first settlers came there. I haven't a clue if he found all of these or what.
Obviously I will be making more trips up there to help my cousin clean up the place.
Bob
