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Now, tracking Alberta as I track the US, with a great deal of suspicion and misgivings, the "It's the government not the people" argument fails when you realize these people elect the same governance again and again...
The separatist movement, funded largely by American Psy Ops, hang them, hang them all. Same with the White Supremacists, the Bible Belters, it's time now for a proper purge. But as it's basically the US at this point, paid for and funded by the US, and as Danielle Smith is as more a US operative than an Albertan Politician I pay it the same amount of attention.
Danielle Smith, the entire UCP party, they'd all look a lot better hanging from gibbets or displayed upon pikes in front of the Legislature.
They are the perfect example of what happens when you remove consequences from actions.
Think of a small child. It "steals" a cookie and goes uncorrected. "That's fine" you tell yourself, and the child learns that cookie theft is OK. Child kicks the dog. "That's Fine" you say. It punches a classmate in the face at school and causes a bloody nose. "That's fine" you say "Kid probably deserved it.". This continues, action, antisocial and without consequence. Hey, wait a minute, your child is the victim here...
It continues, your child becomes an adult, steals, rapes, cheats, becomes President or Premier, cheats, steals, rapes and murders more and "that's fine" you say, because you've said it so fucking often and this is how we end up where we are today and I really, really want to take your child, you're Premier, your President, your administration, out into the woods and administer some long overdue corrections....
Anyways, all this an overlong preamble to a fine video by "The Goose" on Alberta's $320 Billion Dollar Oil Debt, which should exemplify to you how "Wealth", in the sense of Oil Companies, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, etc, is nothing more than a form of corporate welfare where consumers are expected to subsidize a fattening billionaire class for no more reason than their disregard for the same rules all the rest of us are held accountable to.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37qKJLuOcKY
I like how the farmer points out that we have laws and rules for all of this fucking-around, only - for some people, and especially under the "current administration" - they're not enforced.
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This was a Balfour beach find, I thought with all the rain to find something, only to find that the lake is so high there's very little beach to be explored. Nonetheless I found this, which while showing clear signs of work and shaping and wear does not inform me as to it's purpose. Perhaps a hide scraper?
Anyways, very out of place and matched none of the other rocks in shape or material. I'll add it to the box of artifacts...
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And the weekend, finally, Saturday and Sunday off and I've access to a vehicle.
First things first. A few adventures on unexplored FSR's, to places thus far unseen. "Prospecting". Some great views, but - as far as the FSR Roadside prospecting goes no great discoveries.
The best, this, the waterfall:
I hadn't consulted the claims maps so this, tempting as it is, I'll have to let it go.
Then on to another spot, where I had a fine pegmatite underway, some smoky quartz, black tourmaline, mica of good crystal shape and habit.
This road, I'd been up, what? 3 years ago? Before the car troubles. Bloody hell. Anyways, this road, halfway up it's been deactivated. I mean - seriously.
And deactivation takes no time up here at all.
I make it to the destination, but I'm going to have to stop this, before I become a "Marty Supreme", before I ruin a friendship with another lost vehicle in the bush....
The pegmatite, I explore, break rocks, a few more tiny aquamarine crystals, some gemmy garnets, a few I don't recognize. Like the glistening red crystals, which could be garnet but the shape and lustre seem off...
I get my USB microscope out and examine at the library (because my MacBook Air does not recognize it). Still uncertain, and annoyed that the USB microscope doesn't allow levels of Zoom.
Images below:
It only strikes me that it has an unusual lustre and doesn't by crystal habit appear to be garnet or anything else I'm familiar with.
The aquamarines, max 1 cm, they aren't worth the photographing.
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Sunday, to pan for gold, on the creeks feeding Sheep Creek behind Salmo.
First, visit the mine:
It has, of course, seen better days. From here off to dip a pan in a few of the tributaries, attempt a few more FSR, most of which have been deactivated. The exposures of rock, basalts, heavily metamorphosed granites, quartzites, quartz, all bedded together, turned black, yellow, orange & red with minerals, bedded at 90 degree angles, this is the stuff they were mining, this is where the gold is...
All roads up this mountain are overgrown again, there is no way to the top save abandoning the vehicle and going on a 12 KM bushwack.
Find a few other FSR heading south, explore them, more of the same rock, this rock, intriguing, holds promise but I would need to check the claims, the hard-rock ones, the ore needs be dug and crushed but you can see the glistening pyrites, the dark veins of galena, silver...
Ore carts, still suspended...
An unknown grave high up the mountainside. A child? Recent? and if so, what with the pick-axe?
And so it concludes the day...great ground, but need a means to access. And the gold, well, the creeks being largely claimed means it's inaccessible, so review the MTO and see if any of the hard-rock options are open (I doubt); there is still treasure to be found but whether it will reward the work...
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So, no news is generally good news. There was the Fox interview with a vice admiral Robert Harward, only it wasn't, it was someone wearing a hyperrealistic latex mask, you could see the seam flapping on his chest.
Fox News of course denies it.
Watch the video here and make up your own mind.
Then there's the news via Facebook that Jason, who ran the Magic Hippy bus at the ferry landing; read between the lines and you understand, the second such death in a month, the other, someone I knew to see but otherwise not at all.
There's a mental health epidemic at the moment.
On Facebook as well there's the warnings about all the various homeless people arriving in town, summer regulars, just like the tourists, only a lot of them are trouble, warnings to watch your children/wives/possessions, etc. Where were they up until now? Who knows, rehab, asylums, jail, in the country... But Nelson is the friendliest town and where a lot of them want to spend summer, and summer, well, it's here.
The Memorial Weekend, lots of out of towners, midnight, out for a cigarette, a couple of Bikers riding down the highway, surprised at a red light, the first one drops it in a mighty fine shower of sparks, the second one wobbles and goes down as well. It looks painful, and sounds worse by the cussing, but they manage to get back on and ride it to the curb to inspect for damage so probably not too bad...
More stuff to the Antique shop, it's all selling he tells me, mighty pleased, myself as well, but I haven't yet seen a dime...
And books to the bookstore and I'm going to have to make this inheritable - pass the credit on to my children; I will never live to read as many books as I have credit amassed already and there are dozens if not hundreds of boxes to go...
And yet as well to see a dime on my buttons and ties, that may have been a poor move trusting *** but we'll see.
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This morning, courtesy of friend (I hate asking for help, but until I get car there's no other choice) I take a ride to the locker. Drop off one of Milan's paintings (a less favoured one), and then pick a few boxes to take with me.
2 Boxes of books to process, and 1 1/2 boxes of art supplies.
Start with the art supplies, sort into boxes. 1 box for Watercolours & Tempura, 1 for Oil Pastels, and the last for pencils and charcoal. This leaves me with a pile of ink and cartridges, these I add to already started boxes of the same. A big box of pen nibs, a dozen, 2 dozen nib-holders, jars of ink, a collection of broken lighters (some still working), some fine vintage fountain pens - of note a Sheaffer and a Waterman, a dozen Cross pens, silver and gold, boxes of sealing wax, more ephemera...
It's always the same stuff I'm finding, over and over again, more pens, more nibs, paint, pencils, etc, etc.
A couple of "fly-tiers" - good, for the detail oriented hobbyist, and that's it.
One of the art boxes needs to be scrubbed, a mouse got in, gnawed through a tube of watercolours, sterilize, get rid of the droppings, just you wait, I'll be the next Hantavirus case...I wonder why only one? And, remarkably, for things I haven't touched in 30+ years, some still with the Czech label, they're still good...
When all is sorted - a box and a half, and there's more, always more, but thankfully that's left in the locker, it's on to the books. Only two boxes, and not packed in any sort of order, the son has mixed in a few of his (interesting taste, I must say), then take half a box to the used bookstore. At this rate it's going to take me months, but - better that than they tell me to piss-off, which would doubtless come about if I overwhelmed them. My credit there is huge, and in 4 or 5 months I won't be surprised if I own the place...
Now, to the library...