went to a rock sale this morning

I know I've been woefully absent on here and I hate that I get that way; I've been buried under work and some volunteer projects at church for about 5 weeks and haven't had time to so much as look at a rock.

rockroller (Roland) texted me this yesterday about a sale today in town. I know the guys that put it together so I dropped by this morning. I was surprised to find a lot of sphere makers, several saws and several reciprocating laps.

I've been wanting a large flat lap to do bookends and slabs, and when the gentelman selling said if I bought a reciprolap and a sphere maker he'd cut me a great deal, I couldn't say no.

The guy who built the sphere makers used only diamond, and the seller was willing to throw in a bunch of pads and connectors so I could start right away.

I also picked up a fairburn, a fossil shrimp and a few queensland agates.

I was fortunate to also run into Roland while I was there, it was good to say hi.

OK here's the haul:













I need to clean the rocking area in the garage, get caught up on the tumbling contest and get the new gear in use, but hopefully I can be more on top of rocking and less buried by work!