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Wal-Mart owns Value Village
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I was sad to learn this. But it was never a favorite thrift shop, just another one on the route, a little more expensive than most, but it just made my treasure hunting a lot easier.
Yeah, you wonder but never get around to googling it and when finally you do this is what you find out. Never again.
A buck a potato - Man Shopping
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And, while day tripping at the CO-OP I spotted these:
I mean, I might be day-tripping but the daughter is laughing as well, a buck for a gold-foil wrapped potato. This is absurd. This is man-shopping, too lazy and stupid to buy a bag of potatoes someone out in a hurry to get the barbecue going buys these, the gilded foil must be to elevate them above the status of regular foil-wrapped potatoes, justifying the 4, 5, 10-fold increase in price. And the plastic bag with a potato in it is proof there's no overestimating human stupidity...
Membership pays? Who?
Zincton & Lamproites
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So a few new spots discovered off prospecting - First one, Zincton - somewhere on the way between Kaslo and New Denver, had spotted the old mines from the highway and stopped to investigate. Some great pieces of fools gold, and mysterious - small - emerald green crystals, which I need to have identified - too small for gems, but the color is good and if they prove to be - well, anything, I'll go back and collect a bunch and look for bigger. Forgot to take pictures, sorry...
ZINCTON:
Yes, yes, there's an obvious selfie there that I've overlooked. I'm sorry. But I think you realize why I might not have gotten it...
The other couple of expeditions, one to the south of the province, scraping bedrock high above the river, a grey day so no idea what's in the pan yet, that will be panned out tomorrow. No nuggets, clearly, but there was the promise of...
And finally, up past the bear meadows, a rock formation that had intrigued me, some large crystals in it that resembled biotite Mica but with a more grossular texture. Taking it in for identification it proves to be Lamproite - a host for diamonds. So - next day off, back to the bear meadows to break open a few hundred rocks and see if this particular pipe has any potential. And no pictures of the specimens there either, I need to be a little more thoughtful about documenting my finds...
Cinnamon
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These trips, only in town for a couple of days, it's cheaper to eat out than stock the fridge with stuff that will be off the next time I make it back. So I make the rounds of favorite places - Mucho Burrito, Fat Burger. And an Indian place not far from the apartment, for an ethnic restaurant well furnished - by which I mean in a bland, modern, antiseptic way, but an amazing lunch buffet, a couple of dozen items, a mere $15.70, the food, tasty, delicious even, and an easy way to balance the diet. Given that I generally only eat 1 meal a day, this is a great place to do it. And a shame, because every time I've been there it's empty, or close enough to empty, and you know it can't last, and what is it about Calgary that a reasonable restaurant with good prices can't last? Anywhere else this place would be packed every day of the week...
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