stewdogg
spending too much on rocks
Member since January 2020
Posts: 388
|
Post by stewdogg on Sept 10, 2021 9:20:34 GMT -5
Seemed like a difficult year for the contest and I'm not surprised, but very excited that the majority of the winners are from RTH! Might as well make it a hat trick... will winner #3 come out of the RTH shadows as well?
Congratulations AL, AJ and Wyatt!!
|
|
thebeef
having dreams about rocks
Member since September 2020
Posts: 62
|
Post by thebeef on Sept 10, 2021 10:37:37 GMT -5
|
|
ncboxorox
having dreams about rocks
Member since March 2021
Posts: 62
|
Post by ncboxorox on Sept 10, 2021 11:24:28 GMT -5
Here are the 5 that I sent in. It’s was a pretty tough material in terms of it not cooperating with me, but alas my efforts came to fruition in the end. Congratulations to Al & AJ for 1st place, and congratulations to all the other contestants as well! I am looking forward to next year!
|
|
quartzilla
Cave Dweller
Member since April 2020
Posts: 1,218
|
Post by quartzilla on Sept 10, 2021 11:27:45 GMT -5
Way to represent! 1st and 3rd sounds like a Ramones song Too! Your guys success seals the deal, I will enter next year!
|
|
|
Post by fernwood on Sept 10, 2021 11:27:52 GMT -5
Those look great. Can seed why you were in the top 3.
|
|
|
Post by rockjunquie on Sept 10, 2021 12:45:17 GMT -5
Awesome sauce!!!!!!! Congrats Al and AJ!!!! So cool that you are a father son team. I'm glad you got your winning rocks in on time.
ncboxorox, Congrats to you as well! 3rd place is nothing to sneeze at.
Congrats to RTHLINGS!!!!!! Once again we placed. YAY!!!!
|
|
Tommy
Administrator
Member since January 2013
Posts: 12,682
|
Post by Tommy on Sept 10, 2021 13:03:18 GMT -5
I can confirm that our names are Al and A.J. Schubring, actually AJ IV and AJ V. So unless there were other contestants with our names the RTH streak is alive and well. We have yet to be officially notified and I’m not a big Facebooker so you guys knew about this before us. Our Press and PR people are working diligently on an official statement that will be forthcoming. For now I will just say “WOOHOO!” With the fine detective work here a guy can’t get away with anything! WooHoo! is entirely appropriate! Congratulations you guys! That's so awesome.
|
|
Tommy
Administrator
Member since January 2013
Posts: 12,682
|
Post by Tommy on Sept 10, 2021 13:04:39 GMT -5
aand... Congrats ncboxorox on placing top three! That was a tough rock to work with and I'm blown away that you guys found a way to get it done at a very high level.
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 10, 2021 19:48:59 GMT -5
Some pics as promised: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Just the bad and the ugly as I didn't get any pictures of the submissions, my previous post has the explanation. First the UGLY. A third of our material was this brown or red jasper: I was bound and determined that we would finish at least one of each of these. I knew they would probably not make the cut for the final five but I had to get a couple all the way through. Turns out that being so stubborn stupid was a really bad move. The red one broke apart early in the polish cycle and it was just dumb luck that I happened to see it and pull it out, even got the chip that broke off. Now for the BAD. For one reason or another these were eliminated. Most were pretty easy decisions and A.J. and I eliminated half right off the bat. Out of what was left A.J. chose the ones with the best polish. I tried to position these with the worst side facing up, some defects stand out a lot more than others. These were eliminated by my own bias against small rocks. There is not a rule about a minimum size for submissions but I think there should be as smaller rocks are just that much easier to polish than larger ones. That's all we have left. It's a weird feeling finishing a batch and giving away the best of it. It works the opposite around here as A.J. cherry picks every batch for his personal collection and then will sell or give away the rest.
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 10, 2021 19:58:40 GMT -5
I can confirm that our names are Al and A.J. Schubring, actually AJ IV and AJ V. So unless there were other contestants with our names the RTH streak is alive and well. We have yet to be officially notified and I’m not a big Facebooker so you guys knew about this before us. Our Press and PR people are working diligently on an official statement that will be forthcoming. For now I will just say “WOOHOO!” With the fine detective work here a guy can’t get away with anything! ETA: Believe it or not we will be counting on Feather River for the pics as we did not get any of the submissions. Quick story: on the last day that the rocks had to be postmarked by we just pulled the rocks out of polish. As we were sorting and doing our own judging in the basement I hear my wife yelling for me. I run upstairs into the kitchen and see my youngest daughter is on the floor out cold. In a matter of seconds she comes to and is puzzled why she is on the floor. Best we can tell is that she fainted due to dehydration. I apologized to AJ and told him I want to stay home to keep an eye on things and couldn’t get to the post office. Understanding, but I’m sure disappointed, he picked out the five rocks to box up anyways. Later on, when things had settled down, my wife volunteered to go to the post office for us. In our rush to get the package ready not a single picture was taken. Didn’t even realize it until she was out the door. I’ll get some of the runner ups this weekend but be forewarned, there are some uglies there. Was a challenging material to be sure. Congrats! That is awesome. Way to keep the streak alive!! Picking the 5 rocks to send is usually one of the hardest parts too. Chuck He did good Chuck. I've showed him enough of your pictures- he knows what to look for.
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 10, 2021 20:01:25 GMT -5
Congratulations! Hopefully your daughter is better! Would have been nice if I added that to the story! She is fine, was just an isolated incident. Thanks Ali!
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 10, 2021 20:08:24 GMT -5
Congratulations, Al and A.J.! That is quite a story. Sounds like your wife may be owed a nice dinner for saving the day. You are right Brian, she definitely saved the day! No familiar names on the lists. Did the RTH streak of winners come to an end? I got 3rd!!!!! That's awesome, congrats Wyatt!
|
|
illusionist
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since August 2017
Posts: 137
|
Post by illusionist on Sept 18, 2021 14:30:17 GMT -5
Congratulations winners!
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 19, 2021 7:30:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by fernwood on Sept 19, 2021 9:52:27 GMT -5
Thanks for posting. Those are great.
|
|
saxplayer
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since March 2018
Posts: 1,327
|
Post by saxplayer on Sept 19, 2021 14:59:39 GMT -5
Sweet all, great work.
|
|
ncboxorox
having dreams about rocks
Member since March 2021
Posts: 62
|
Post by ncboxorox on Sept 19, 2021 16:17:02 GMT -5
Congratulations again! 1st and 2nd place rocks look great!
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 19, 2021 18:10:55 GMT -5
I received a message that the contest pictures had been posted on the FRLMS Facebook page so I'm going to try to put them here for posterity, never tried grabbing a photo from Facebook so fingers crossed. Of course if you are a facebooker you can just go to their page, I think the post was from 9-17-21. We did receive a card and note from them a few days ago, very nice. Congratulations again! 1st and 2nd place rocks look great! That guy in 3rd didn't do too bad either . Congrats again Wyatt! BTW did you notice the half pink rock in the second place finishers picture? We didn't have any like that, it's a sweet one.
|
|
|
Post by Rockindad on Sept 19, 2021 18:14:25 GMT -5
Thanks for posting. Those are great. Thanks Beth, while I was successful getting these pictures off of their Facebook page I apparently managed to download all of the images and videos from it as well . Going to be busy for a while deleting.
|
|
|
Post by hummingbirdstones on Sept 19, 2021 19:35:48 GMT -5
Thanks for posting. Those are great. Thanks Beth, while I was successful getting these pictures off of their Facebook page I apparently managed to download all of the images and videos from it as well . Going to be busy for a while deleting.
Sorry, that made me laugh!
|
|