This looks like fun

Holy moly, that's a lot of stuff!  It would take more than 3 days to go through all of that.

Wow, I just looked up the address and it's only about 20 minutes from me.

Oh im jelly...Please please please go ! It says everything has to be gone, so you may find some killer deals. 

That's only about two hours from us ... too bad I didn't know sooner as we were out just farting around all day yesterday looking for stuff to do.

Holy Moly! All this on a single estate? I can actually see the rock rings from Google Maps :-)

Wonder if they take credit cards? A person could get into big trouble there.

Have a good time, find some nice stuff (we'll be expecting photos later, lol),  but remember to use restraint!

Didn't get much. A nice piece of petrified wood, some slabs of jade and a couple other little slabs. They start discounting rocks tomorrow afternoon. I think I'm going back first thing Sat morning. There's several large pieces of petrified wood I'm interested in.

How much were the slabs and what did they have?

So on a whim Eva and I took off for Ceres this morning. I didn't get to see it before it got hit at least twice but there was still a LOT of rocks for sale. It kind of just kept going and going the farther you walked into the back yard. I found one large pile of fairly undisturbed rocks that had a lot of thundereggs in it - in the old days I probably would have sat down and spent about three hours sorting through just that pile picking the eggs out of it but I'm still thinning out my own stash by cutting through it - and I have no business hauling home a bunch of new stuff.

So the highlight of the sale was two authentic planter pots with grape vine decorations, very fitting to drag back to Napa with us lol. They are old and VERY heavy - they weigh probably 60 lbs each. They were marked $100 each which is already a steal at local prices here, but at noon today prices of everything were dropped 50% so I grabbed them.




I did find a large chunk of faced Hornitos breccia that weighs probably 20lbs. It amused me because I see a certain rock celebrity on FB who claims this Hornitos breccia material to be a recent find by them as they sell 2 inch slabs $20 and people are eat it up. This chunk had probably 30 years of dirt on it. I had dig it up out of a where it has been undisturbed for a very long time and spray it off before I could even tell what it was. I was hoping to find a hunk of poppy jasper but this is as close as I came so anyway, I got it for $5 so that's good.






I also couldn't resist this thick slab of local Magnesite. I can't tell if it's from Anderson Lake or New Idria - they look very similar. It's very cool and highly detailed in the trademark connected dots pattern. I searched for wherever this slab came from but it was all I could find. There was a TON of magnesite boulders in various places but none displayed the green translucent inclusions.