Good Morning all. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but it's about 70 here in Tucson Blue skies and we're getting ready to hit the JOGS show (Don't know what it stands for but I know there's a lot of rock stuff there.
The local Post office ran out of flat-rate boxes so we'll got a little further afield to hopefully get more. So that's a minor bump in the road but we'll get around it one way or another. Haven't any idea how many square feet the Jogs show covers but it's a lot. On todays list I'm looking for some Swiss blue Topaz facet rough that I got a couple/few years back. But even with that being the object of my search, I'll be keeping an eye out for anything that catches my or Leslie's eye. And guess what? First stall after we entered had something I'd never seen before. A stone the owner merely called "Lavender".
The local Post office ran out of flat-rate boxes so we'll got a little further afield to hopefully get more. So that's a minor bump in the road but we'll get around it one way or another. Haven't any idea how many square feet the Jogs show covers but it's a lot. On todays list I'm looking for some Swiss blue Topaz facet rough that I got a couple/few years back. But even with that being the object of my search, I'll be keeping an eye out for anything that catches my or Leslie's eye. And guess what? First stall after we entered had something I'd never seen before. A stone the owner merely called "Lavender".
The color is a light but definite lavender and the one cut piece he had left had a great polish to it so out came the high-grading wand and PRESTO! Money and stones magically changed places.
Jogs isn't just a rough show though, there were glass filled Rubies, along with the real things
Jogs isn't just a rough show though, there were glass filled Rubies, along with the real things
And for the seeker of the path less traveled, a padded back wooden Hippo that of course, Leslie refused to let me take it home with us (She can be so unreasonable at times).
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Picking through the findings was next to impossible, there were so many of them and so much show to cover. So, we went exploring and found some super Turquoise at the SunWest findings booth, What was some high grade like this doing in a findings booth? Beats me, but we watched as a guy made a deal for 5- five gallon buckets of the material so with a little (Lot) whining and persuasion, I got the boss to let me pick some of it up
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Leslie spotted a couple of neat items. She's into sphere's and there was a booth with some Purperite one that she had to have so out of the backpack went some money and into it went a 4 or 5" Purperite sphere along with 10kg of rough just in case my back was feeling too good. Give you one guess who had the backpack on......and it wasn't Leslie. Also came back with a killer specimen of Uvarite
Pic at top of page.
Picking through the findings was next to impossible, there were so many of them and so much show to cover. So, we went exploring and found some super Turquoise at the SunWest findings booth, What was some high grade like this doing in a findings booth? Beats me, but we watched as a guy made a deal for 5- five gallon buckets of the material so with a little (Lot) whining and persuasion, I got the boss to let me pick some of it up
Pic at top of page.
Leslie spotted a couple of neat items. She's into sphere's and there was a booth with some Purperite one that she had to have so out of the backpack went some money and into it went a 4 or 5" Purperite sphere along with 10kg of rough just in case my back was feeling too good. Give you one guess who had the backpack on......and it wasn't Leslie. Also came back with a killer specimen of Uvarite
Now I'm sure you're wondering by now, how much Blue Topaz was I able to score. Wellllll, zip, nada, zilch comes to mind. We never did find the guy who I got it from last time so. I drowned my sorrows with a few Peridots and Iolites.
So, sore feet and all, I'm going to rack out and get ready for tomorrow. Frontage road and possibly the 22nd St. Show. GJX on Monday and some of the carvings of Peter Mueller It just keeps getting better and better.
Pete
So, sore feet and all, I'm going to rack out and get ready for tomorrow. Frontage road and possibly the 22nd St. Show. GJX on Monday and some of the carvings of Peter Mueller It just keeps getting better and better.
Pete
