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Garage Sales, July 15, 2017
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
- Hits: 1700
Yeah, no. Nada.
The season is done...
A lady selling rocks, some interesting, but without provenance worthless to me. A couple of others, repeats, still trying to sell shit they've had now 3, 4 weeks running. Back to Balfour, a couple of more garage sales, nothing of interest. A local market. "Market", 2 fiddles, an accordion and guitar sing songs that you would expect to hear played by the orchestra of a sinking ship, "Antiques" - which consist mostly of used ceramic ashtrays, another table with standard garage sale shit - "collectible" plates, cups, saucers, not even worthy of Granny's attic, someone selling produce, preserves, jams, I buy a jar of homemade "Organic Hot Sauce", the band strikes up another tune, a dirge for garage sales, as I wander off into the weeds at the end of the street, a graveyard, of sorts, for abandoned vehicles, old, 30's, 40's trucks, more contemporary trailers, would make good living accommodations, if only they were upright, the perfect discovery for the end of the day...
Get home, open the hot sauce, the texture of gruel, colorless, a brownish grey, no spice or flavour whatsoever, rather perfectly summing up the days garage sales.
Invasive Species
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 1870
A handy tool that shows the distribution and frequency of documented invasive species.
More on Wells Fargo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: WTF
- Hits: 1953
Completely without shame.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nev95x/wells-fargo-is-trying-to-bury-another-massive-scandal
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The Prospector
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
- Hits: 1835
Young, long hair, the same rocks as me but even more enthusiasm, if you can believe it...
He's got a couple of claims down south, Ymir, Castlegar way, and has collected a pile of specimens. He's trying to sell them off, I don't need more rocks, not these at least, the same as I have, but he's showing me and talking and all excited that he's got a customer - I spotted his sign on a street corner, "Nelson Rocks", curiosity compelled me, nice to meet a kindred spirit...
He's got the loose specimens, and then some jewelry that he's made, pictures below:
Samples of "Sugar Quartz" - deposited on the mine walls since closing (left), ore samples on right.
Jewelry he'd made, quartz crystals in crudely carved wood settings, sample boards of his minerals.
I buy a couple of pieces of jewelry, I need none of this, but it's nice to meet someone arguably more successful on the same path as me. I ask if he's any other cherished specimens, a great specimen, he runs inside and comes out dragging a 20 gallon pail filled with 60 lbs of rocks, ore, I look through them, bad samples of tourmaline, ore, bad crystals, but, hey, it's the same stuff I got and clearly he values it as much...
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