llanago
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by llanago on Nov 2, 2004 0:38:48 GMT -5
Doc, what a great shop! I am so happy that ya'll were able to get it all set up and had lots of folks come by on the first day! I wish you all the success in the world and know that you will do well with it. If your jewelry work goes down the tube, you could make a killing spinning out tales of your fascinating life!  Not that I think your jewelry biz won't be wildly successful. I think I could sit and watch you make stuff while spinning out tales about your life and be perfectly entertained and content. Although, I do have to admit, when I read some of your posts I think "What the hell is he talking about?" ;D You look SO familiar! I have either seen your face on an album cover or at one of the thousands of concerts I went to back in my younger, concert going days. Wouldn't it be interesting if we had crossed paths 20 or so years ago - and I'm not at all sure we didn't! llana |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 2, 2004 0:52:12 GMT -5
LLana. If you Punch in NRPS on search, I think you will be suprised! On our second album, I am standing next to Jerry Garcia, holding up the wall, with my hair covering my face. I still wear the same boots. I wore those boots to Woodstock, and I still have them.
I bet we matched eyes once upon a dream.
He' ll steal your woman, then he'll steal your head.
How things happen.
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llanago
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by llanago on Nov 2, 2004 1:11:22 GMT -5
Well, Doc, we did cross paths! I saw NRPS at least once in concert,but I'm thinkin' it was twice. Can't remember where though - Houston, Dallas, New Orleans - maybe. Oh yeah, Panama Red. We used to smoke alot of it and sing it at the top of our lungs. Although I am not at all sure you could call what we did singing.  We were certainly no threat to NRPS. In fact, ya'll would have probably hauled us into court for murdering your song!  We thought we could sing, but I'd be willing to bet it was pretty scary to anybody that heard us! That Panama Red would do that to ya', ya' know! llana |
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Post by hermatite on Nov 2, 2004 9:46:17 GMT -5
hey doc...forget the trees and the water...you need to move to the prairie...it's where it's at man...you can't hide, you can only be you...ask bearcreek... Someone better with words than me put it like this "You’re such a small being in this huge area, it turns you in on yourself, as if there’s this big eye saying “who are you? There’s no place to hide. You’re stuck in the gaze of your own life.". What could be a bigger challenge than that? On the otherhand, the gaze of my own life got to be too much for me so I escaped to the welltreed vistas of New Hampshah.  |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 2, 2004 9:52:03 GMT -5
To be honest, Perhaps after we are just getting squared away I might want to go and get a Mexican Opal mine, way way way away from anything. Perhaps cut a stone or two, make a ring, hunt, and just disappear.
My wife was really unhappy in Punta Gorda. We love New Port Richey. No natural stones in Floriduh however. Only Marl.
I was at Squam Lake when they filmed On Golden Pond. My ex mother in law owned the house next to the one they filmed the movie in.
New Hampshuh is beautiful. I used to camp on Mt Washington during Christmas break back in my high school and college days. I was a catcher at Tuckerman's Ravine and used to race downhill there.
You are in pretty country.
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Post by hermatite on Nov 2, 2004 10:03:58 GMT -5
yes I am...but then, in my heart nothing compares to a crisp fall eveing when the smoke from the fields of buring flax straw turns the sky red and purple and takes your breath away. Or when the summer winds bring the smell of canola...or you can smell the dry dusty heat of a wheat field. I'm a prairie girl at heart. There are all to many trees here...I have to look up to see the sky.
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Nov 2, 2004 11:39:12 GMT -5
Herm, the first, and only time, I saw a Kansas wheatfield it took my breath away! The sky was a startling blue with just a few white puffy clouds here and there. It was late afternoon and there was a slight breeze blowing across the prairie. The sun shining on the wheat blowing softly in the breeze was like spun gold. It was really beautiful. Amber waves of grain - what a perfect description. Don't know if I could live long without this though.  |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 2, 2004 12:53:23 GMT -5
Wow!!!
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Post by hermatite on Nov 2, 2004 17:00:33 GMT -5
Okay...that's really lovely...but...can you watch your dog run away? for three days? EH?
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RiverOtter
spending too much on rocks
Member since January 2004
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Post by RiverOtter on Nov 3, 2004 0:37:03 GMT -5
Ok so I'm a little behind in posts and haven't seen/heard about this emerald yet. But you have a real nice shop Doc. Glad to hear things are finally coming together for ya. Good luck!
Otter
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Post by Cher on Nov 3, 2004 18:47:59 GMT -5
Hey Otter, keep lookin in photos, it's titled Doc's Emerald.
Hey Doc, what did you go by in the band and can you give a year? I can't find it.
Cher
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Post by docone31 on Nov 3, 2004 19:00:32 GMT -5
I was Doc, and I found it comfortable in what I do now. Most write ups list me as the unidentified band member. I have had people think I was Marmadude. Nah, he was good. I last saw Buddy about five years ago, and John I haven't seen in a long long time. I was just there. Buddy is perhaps the best steel pedal guitarist I have ever heard. I played 12 string.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 3, 2004 19:03:24 GMT -5
hey, llana, nice pic! more, more, more...........!
KD
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Post by sandsman1 on Nov 3, 2004 19:49:35 GMT -5
hey doc i was sittin here watchin stargate and i fig might as well get something done ---do ya think any of these are worth a wirewrap i just did a first grind on them the gray one with the black dot is alittle thick might make a nice bolo --i have no idea what would move there so dont feel wierd about sayin they aint gonna work hahaha give me an idea what there buying  |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 3, 2004 19:58:44 GMT -5
Sands. They are great! That is what I hope to be able to show in my shop. Wonderful.
I am a Stargate junkie also. Stargate Atlantis, ehhhh. I even watch Stargate reruns and reruns.
You do some great stuff. Some of those I could do in a southwestern style. There are some that would do a Bolo justice. I would be proud to have them in my shop.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 3, 2004 20:01:21 GMT -5
omg, Sands, they are ALL nice but i REALLY love the one under the coin..........you are getting too good at this!
KD
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Post by sandsman1 on Nov 3, 2004 20:06:11 GMT -5
doc if you think they will work ill keep goin there all willow creek except the purple one ill look around and see if i got something else unusuall and i still have acouple more pieces of the purple rock ill see what they wanna be hahaha
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Post by sandsman1 on Nov 3, 2004 20:08:17 GMT -5
hahaha CUTDATOUT your gonna give me a big head KD hahaha
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 3, 2004 20:11:50 GMT -5
ok, so we can both be balloon heads for a few minutes.............hahaha. (its ok)
KD
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Foreverdown
having dreams about rocks
Member since August 2004
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Post by Foreverdown on Nov 3, 2004 20:16:34 GMT -5
Sands, Excellent work!! I like the way you seem to read a stone and reveal the most amazing scene captured within. Now, if only I could convince the wife that I need a saw and polisher...  Is it too late to start being good for Christmas? [glow=blue,2,300]Brett[/glow] |
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Not that I think your jewelry biz won't be wildly successful. I think I could sit and watch you make stuff while spinning out tales about your life and be perfectly entertained and content. Although, I do have to admit, when I read some of your posts I think "What the hell is he talking about?" ;D
We were certainly no threat to NRPS. In fact, ya'll would have probably hauled us into court for murdering your song! 
We thought we could sing, but I'd be willing to bet it was pretty scary to anybody that heard us! 
