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New Mines, Rambles, Etc
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So, off exploring with Chris - using wisely the last few days of freedom. Still too snowy to go anyways up the mountains, but there's a surprising amount to be discovered at the lower elevations:
Probably a deer bone, kicked out of the moss.
Mine at Woodbury, floor lined with water. An absolutely terrific place to send the kids exploring, if I'd known about it when they were younger...
Walls crusted with brittle sulfite crystals, grown since the mine was abandoned. Geologically a blink in time, imagine what will have grown in another thousand, ten thousand years?
piece of silver ore, already oxidizing on the break. Heavy, (which gives you the grade of ore), silvery-black when freshly broken with a cubic structure.
Another piece of ore, very heavy (high grade), oxidized, you can see the cubic structure and a bit of the metallic luster underneath the oxidization. Maybe 2 inches wide, but a full pound in weight.
If I could clean these up and seal them they'd sell as great specimens...
Hmmm.
Chris scrambling up to new mine, hidden just off the road. Curiously baked rock.
Shaft's all crumbled in, so no exploring there. Dated bolt on tree - October 1922 (??). Now there's so much of this hardware up there it gets me thinking what could I do to upcycle this? I mean, cool and all, how to repurpose so it doesn't go to waste and I can see some salvage value?
Spools of abandoned cable/wire.
Finally, an abandoned miners cabin, invisible from the road, worth maybe taking the metal detector up when there's less snow, but you can soon get tired of digging out all the discarded iron. Still, one day maybe something worthwhile? There are hundreds up here, surely somewhere around one there's gotta be something....
5MEO & The Apology Line
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And finished each of these. "The Apology Line" Podcast - OK, entertaining, although the narrator began to annoy me towards the end. And 5MEO - well, nothing so boring as watching other people waffle on about their trip, trying to describe what is by it's very nature personal and indescribable. So - overall - both of them get a "Meh...".
Murder Mountain - Netflix
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A mini-documentary series on Netflix about the Marijuana Trade in Humboldt County, California. Of interest because I know a lot of growers from here that travel south to the same area to trim in the fall, the people, I know most if not all of them, not them, specifically, but them the type, there are a lot of parallels between the regions. However from similar beginnings they arrive at very different outcomes. Well done.
With my Father in Australia
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I'm with my father in Australia. We're in some sort of Disney World, or amusement park, and we're at a fitness facility, multiple stories high. The basement, filled with water, a swimming pool, deep, big, and I'm thinking it makes sense, because, Australia...
And then we're at the ground floor level, and there's a skating rink, and I'm thinking, "Hell Ya Pa's going to teach these Aussies how to play hockey..."
We're walking. There's a woman he knows that's fallen in step with us, he knows her somehow, and I'm thinking this trip to Australia, maybe I didn't I understand it completely?
She's trying to keep up with him, friends are joining her...
And there's other friends, on my left, I don't know them, and they're being joined by other friends, pretty, and dad is walking faster trying to outstrip them all...
I have this image in my head, all the maps of Australia I've seen, criss-crossed with red lines of the travels I should have taken....
... and now it's the world, from tropical islands off the coast of Africa, hot summer days visiting islands that exist only in my dreams...
(Weird, but not unpleasant. Dream places, that I recollect from dreams and so have that haunting familiarity, but no corollary in real life)
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