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Loot Drop
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This is one of a dozen surreal loot drops by Stormy I've endured the past month. The debris piled up and only waited my unboxing, which finally I got around to after a fashion, if only to clean out the car and make room for my rocks. The scrolls, there are a hundred or so to be unraveled, but that as time permits...
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BAAAAD ART
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And, in the whirlwind tour I spotted this in a thrift shop:
There is so much wrong with it - and I'm not referring to the competence of the artist - that I can't even begin. But what really unnerves me is the familiarity of the woman - I know her from someplace - is it Sam from Sex and the City? Or someone I used to work with? I don't know but it haunts me in the worst of all possible ways...
The New Prospectors
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Just a link to a topic of interest. Not exactly how I approach it, and while I scoff at a 4 ounce summer it's still 4 ounces better than I've ever done...
Last Whirlwind Tour
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This is the last of the whirlwind tours of Calgary, the summer is in full swing and I won't be affording anymore days off until after the September Long Weekend. A dozen or so blog posts begun, but probably no time to complete them, and certainly not from my phone.
The trip back, 6 hours driving over the Gray Creek Pass, a record time on a washboard road, visit with the son and daughter, the quick - almost obligatory trip to go fossicking in Drumheller: The girl is the winner (again)!
Can you spot her treasure? A piece of bone on the left, another on the right and in the center:
A 2 inch long raptor tooth. And, about 18 inches to the right and out of frame another:
This one, about an inch long, but a thicker body than the last one we found. And, sliding down the hoodoo to check the bottom I make my big find of the day:
My raptor tooth (notice the serrations on the inside curve) - almost a full centimeter long!
Anyways, clearly the daughter won that expedition.
On the way out some little spots of amber in the dirt, beautiful orange and red but too degraded to do anything with:
And that's it. We escape the badlands just before a storm, back to Calgary, visit with the boy who's sick, bed, and now a few errands today before back towards work. So - I'll post a few things, the blog is not abandoned but will have to wait until I'm back a little more permanently in the fall. Prospecting - good, some finds, may hang in the Kootenays for September and October to wrap that up - but it depends a lot on my success, rent needs to be paid, and while the landlord is slow to accept his rent he's quick to point out if it's late...
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