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Mapping Fortune
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Back in Calgary, for a bit at least, winter is spent on the MTO, Mapping treasures, Emeralds, Topaz, Ruby, Sapphire, Diamonds, it will be, if I can afford it, a busy summer. It's all here. The diamonds, they're an Alberta thing, there are claims here for that as well, closer to the Alberta border, but for everything else there are claims within 50 KM of Nelson. I've already found Garnets, when the snow is gone I'll find the rest. Everything. Every Gem in the fucking world. I'm creating my own map, adding 2 or three new markers per day, everywhere here you can dig and be surprised, the trick always is recognizing what you've found and creating value from it...
John Wick 2
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Which I saw with the daughter, laughed out loud, better even than the first, tongue in cheek, doesn't take itself too seriously, but excellent for what it is and the ending promises even more great things to come...
Antique Mephisto Copying Pencils
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Found them at a garage sale, New looking, still in box, Mephisto Copying Pencils, thought they were like pencils or charcoal and so used them instead.
But upon playing with some watercolors I discover that they have the curious property of turning purple when when wetted, like watercolors, but the line is that of a standard pencil. So I google it and find this:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copying_pencil
Not nearly as new as they appeared, and I'm glad I found out - time to find some tools a little less toxic and more to my purpose.
The Long Drive in from BC
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Sunday, the long drive in from BC for the final three weeks of work. Maybe more, we'll see how the new owners are.
The drive, snow covered roads, long, slippery, advisories posted everywhere and by the time I reach Fernie - some 6 hours later, there are signs warning that the Crowsnest Pass is closed. Check the phone, so is the one at Invermere, many road closures, no choice, no hotel rooms in Fernie, bluster on forwards to Crowsnest...
...by 7:30 I arrive, Pass is closed, not due to open until sometime the next day, I try a few back roads to the highway but they've got them blocked off as well. Choices, go back to the Firehall in Sparwood, grab a cot and a blanket, or backtrack to Cranbrook and Invermere, that pass - for the moment - is open again.
No liquor at the Firehall and so I'm off. The roads, bad already, are getting worse, visibility a few meters, can't see the road, only the abyss off to the left, slowly, slowly...cars vanish over the edge here in winter, leave no trace, the embankment loses the tracks in just a few moments, the snow covers the wreck, if they're lucky they'll be found in the spring, but read the missing people, many aren't found for years...When I was a kid my mother told us of the story of the family that went missing on the way to Vancouver, found, 22 years later, by some hikers in the Hells gate, over a cilff and into some treetops...go off the road here, now, and that could be you...
Eventually I make Calgary. A miracle of sorts, the next day, checking the road reports, every road from Nelson - the pass, south of Creston, the Crowsnest at Elkford, the #1, is closed. I made it, just barely, 30 below and 1:30 in the morning and I'm looking for a couch.
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