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There's a lot of information missing here, and it seems, well, just a little TOO lucky, if you know what I mean. The mention of "Secondary Winnings" from other tickets suggests he may have just bought too many tickets ...and may be working his own sort of system, still:
LINK: https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/15/ridiculously-lucky-man-wins-lottery-twice-in-a-week-7546237/
Of course, if you still deny the coincidence, there's always the case of the time the same numbers were drawn 2 weeks running in Bulgaria...
Nothing suspicious about that, and besides, they investigated...
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And stumbling through the forest, close to old haunts and scouting for new ones I find a narrow seam of quartz, silver ore, too small to be of any interest to the miners, but of some interest to me. Mainly for the abundance of quartz crystals, pretty, I'm pretty sure I can sell these in a gift shop someplace....
Early finds:
little beds of calcite crystals embedded in the reefs...
Great promise showing, needs to be cleaned and separated, this piece, maybe fifty pounds, 18 inches long by 10 inches wide...filled with ore, quartz, calcite, and some other minerals I have to identify...
a cross-section of quartz plates....
quartz
Some of them aren't so pretty before they're cleaned up. The black stuff is degraded Galena, or silver ore...
a tiny cluster of calcite flowers or plates...
Dirty Calcite Rhombus on quartz.
A few notes, a few perfect Calcite Rhombuses, small, but like the Icelandic Spar or Sunstones, cool, but too small to be salable. And cleaning these things up with acid gets the quartz clean but dissolves the calcite and fluorite and other crystals - have to be careful how I clean them, and there's more work in the cleaning then there is in the finding. I have a theory, that the best rocks in the shops all come from third world countries not because they have the best rocks, it's because they can afford the abundant cheap labour and time required to make these specimens spectacular.
And that's been the week, I worked that vein out, got about 300 lbs of material to clean up, now to write up a few notes on the specimens and shop them around. And get back into the woods and start searching for the next big find....
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Courtesy of Batshit, over at his place he saw me ogling it, knew I had to have it...how to mount it?
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I remember hearing (or reading) about this when I was a kid. The author, well, he looks fun. Real fun. And it's an interesting story, although a bit of a disappointment that -- well, watch the video and see.
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The Season begins, a couple of weeks early. Wake up, get motivated, head down first to Taghum, where there's a couple of Kayaks on sale, a good price, but at the moment some deals have to slide.
From there, to Ymir, really wasting time here, there's nothing of interest, unless you want to chat with the proprietess, from here to Nelson, coffee, a couple of the expected garage sales there called off due to a spring thundershower that rolled through, then north again towards Kaslo.
Not a promising start to the season.
In Kaslo, the same storm that hit Nelson, most garage sales called off, and I hit the only one I can find.
My luck has turned around, mostly kitsch, vintage garbage, but a few finds:
Postcards, vintage, some old copies of some famous woodgravings illustrating parables and saints:
this one reminds me of the old bosses nephew for some reason...
And then a few of the old plastic ones that represent a scene in 3D, these are great, I have only to white out the writing on the back to use them again:
tipping the postcard gives depth to the field, others, Alpine landscapes, a few tacky German ones, a few from classic locations, they'll all work with my vintage stamps...
But the real find, the one that's given me the taste for the season, well...
...can you guess?
A crystal holography healing kit, "light therapy", with guide to acupuncture points, crystal holograms, wands, acupuncture electric stimulators, various other quack medical devices, total retail in excess of $1000 US, all mine for a mere $25 Canadian. After a bit of haggling, of course, but now, now I'm practically a Nelson Doctor. Dr. Rod.
And so it begins...