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Actually 5 arrowheads, counting the 2 that Christopher found.
Monday, cool and rainy, trip out past Balfour with Christopher, do some prospecting up Cedar creek road. Some interesting rocks, promising conditions, but no great finds.
Then back to Balfour where we comb the washout from the ferry landing run off, Chris a few feet ahead of me finds 2 arrowheads, both in relatively great condition:
I'm annoyed beyond measure, but we keep hunting, going down the beach past the restaurant, the bad neighbor to where the new trailer park will be. And heads-down comb the beach for about 3 hours in the drizzle and rain.
In the end I find a total of 3 arrowheads and a couple of scrapers, tools, and a pile of rocks. Just rocks, interesting to me.
Below:
bottom left, a scraper, green chert, you can see the knapping on the edge. Next to it a yellow-ish spear head, the yellow is a patina that forms on the chert over thousands of years, making it tough to spot (vs the fresher flakes), but to handle it you can feel every divot and knapped edge. No coin for scale but it's about an inch and a half long. I say spear vs arrowhead as it's a little think in the center, not well enough balanced to be fired off from a bow. To the right on the bottom, a fresher point, beside that, a grey arrowhead, again covered in patina, next to that a needle or aul, otherwise, a few other tools, scrapers, flakes, and the assorted rocks that I find interesting and invariably stuff my pockets full of. The pink quartzite "scraper" is a paleo-maybe, no obvious signs of work but I found it a little too conveniently shaped to leave behind.
Now, getting a taste for the season...
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So, after the previous blog posts at the Library back home where I'm tackling the boxes of random shit problem.
I unpacked 2 boxes, about as much trauma as I can endure per day.
Finds included:
- 1 broken antique telephone (sadly it might have broken on my watch, now good only for mixed media parts)
- 1 Medalta Crock-Pot lid
- 2 bottles of lavender essential oil
- 1 bottle of orange essential oil
- 1 bottle of wild oregano essential oil
- 1 sonic denture cleaner, new in box (bought for rocks)
- coloured contacts (searched, not good after 10 years, glad I checked)
- 1 bottle Tylenol
- 2 tweezers, 2 nail clippers
- 1 badger-hair barber brush (for shaving)
- 1 hand-blown glass toothbrush holder...
- 1 razor, disposable
- 5 antique calipers
- 1 bottle linseed oil
- 1 plastic container filled with flints and springs from discarded disposable lighters
- 1 filter for vintage 35 mm camera
- pack of 4 flashbulbs
- 1 thing you look through, stereoscope, modern, plastic, suspect it was meant for watching 3D movies on phone but not sure
- 1/4 tube Polysporin
- 12 empty gel caps, in bottle
- 2 (more!) jars of tiger balm
- 1 temporary tattoo of flowers
- 1 bottle of ink for stamp-pads
- 1 legal embosser/stamp
- container of model paints
- a bunch of the old close-up lenses for phone, cheap, clip on over phone lens
That covers most of it. Now only to open and process the remaining 16 boxes...
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The Treasure of the day:
Found at the Thrift Shop with a bunch of Paraphernalia that suggests that someone took this all a bit too seriously.
Why Not? Mr. Tickles has his KY Jelly (or Jam, as I imagine it), some like their three-in-one, and for the Sapiophile, well, add this to the bedside table with my copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses", I mean, really, it can't hurt...
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A 15th Century Treasure Ship lost after setting sail from Lisbon, only to be found by De Beers (2008) in their offshore diamond explorations.
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I remember this from the 70's, the supposed ability to photograph the invisible soul or aura that surrounds all living (and many dead or inanimate) things. So - imagine my excitement when I turned this up in a thrift shop - bargain priced at a mere $125.
Of course, it doesn't do that at all, although there's enough of a market I'm sure that you could do pretty well with it.
That said, I'm pretty sure it would be easy enough to write a computer program that would digitally create an aura effect and spare you the handling of film and the other inconveniences. Still, a great prop for any ghostbusters or psychic researchers...