*~ FINISHED ~* Cab Challenge Oct 2021 Theme: Seasonal Colors

Most German agate sites are depleted. Even Idar-Oberstein imports their agates from Brazil. The carvers are still German, though.

That is gorgeous!

This my entry for the Seasonal Colors cab challenge. This is a piece of Aleman Ranch petrified wood from Engle, NM and may be palm. This cab has exception color and also a shape that looks like a “ghost animal” looking at you with one eye. The measurements are on the calipers. My Halloween memories are the pleasure that I get from passing out treats to the neighbor hood children. The north Austin area that I live in has three schools and a lot of young children within a 1 mile distance that visit each year. I always look forward to their visiting.

Sorry, but I was a little distracted by the extra photos included. Had to go back and look at the entry cab, which is gorgeous.  Looking forward to your Halloween memory.

Great thread... great cabs... wayyyyy too much math in those first couple of pages LOL

Okay...whose stupid idea was it to put so many dang mathematical requirements on these gosh darn cabs!

So, this material is from @jadedvision, so it's safe to call it California Jasper.

The ratio I ended up with was 1x2.66x4.16 Sheesh!

Halloween Memory: Well, growing up most of my life in South Dakota, most Halloween memories are from the 80s and consist of wearing costumes that allowed for Moon Boots as invariably there was a blizzard EVERY October 31st! I do remember one Halloween when I was really young and lived in California. My mom made costumes for my sister and me. She took a couple cardboard boxes, some construction paper, and markers and all of a sudden we became two calculators walking down the street!

Some great last minute additions. Looking good!

Oh, almost forgot my Halloween memory. It is from '81 -- my freshman year in HS. I was out trick-or-treating with a friend. He had swiped a smoke bomb from his older brother. He lit it and threw into the street, just as it started producing a cool red smoke. As luck would have it, one of our town's finest Boys in Blue came around the corner at that moment and decided that this could not stand in a fine, upstanding community such as ours, and pulled over lights flashing. he proceeded to make a long show of hand-cuffing and frisking my friend and placing into the back of the back seat of the Crown Vic that already held two other young miscreants (who knows what sort of dastardly deeds they had committed -- perhaps wearing white after Labor Day, or some other act that will cause the collapse of Western civilization). Putting on his sternest face, he informed me that I was to wait until he brought the others home and came back for me. As he neglected to get my name or home address, those orders slipped my mind after 15 seconds, or so.

The guy took himself so seriously, to this day, I still wonder if he actually came back to look for me.

ETA: jasoninsd -- re your Halloween memory, if this was was in the late 70s or early 80s or so, your costumes must have been about the size of actual calculators "back in the day."