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Handshaking and Handslapping
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Trump has become the darkest side of "Being There" - the idiot president without the grace of God, it is no longer a joke.
The Trump Handshake, his wife's handslapping, the Pope's handslapping (I know, but it was funny), he's the bully being told, the sum of all this absurdity means the end, it's the minutia of idiocy, the - if it continues - legitimate death of the American Empire.
Learned helplessness, the inability to arrive at decisions, the consequences of having all rights confused and eroded by supposed democracy, Putin has brought down the States. But I am waiting...really, now, it's a joke, isn't it, it will end, there has to be someone, or organization, or government office, that will decide "enough is enough"...
Maybe not
Above Woodbury
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So a couple of hours before work, and I went on a little expedition exploring a couple KM up past the silver mines on Woodbury Pt.
Some excellent and very promising geology.
I've kept all the photos original size - slow to load, but if rocks are your thing open the image in a new tab to view all the glorious details...
Great upended swaths of metamorphic rocks and Schist, iron stained, perfect silvery mica, lots of vugs and pockets filled with mud, poking through them, no crystals, but abundant potential.
Intrusive in the schists vuggy outcrops of rhyolite - exciting, similar to what they dig red beryls (Bixbite) and Topaz out of in Utah.
Heavy mineralization, iron, sulpher, quartz, traces of copper, absolutely promising as all out. I dig a few of the vugs, no luck finding crystals, but there are numerous outcrops and I'm only a couple of KM up the road - there will be abundant other places to check.
Vuggy rhyolite...with occupant.
And I find what appears to be a lava flow - river cobbles in conglomerate, cemented by a deep black mineralization, this might be worth digging up and panning (although there would have to be some crushing involved as well).
All in all an excellent short little field trip that promises, well great things. I have yet to find the tourmalines and staurolites, but these are great exposures, and promising in the extreme, a hundred other forestry service roads to explore, all things here are possible...
Not my garden
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Not my garden, but you've gotta contribute somehow, and it's better when you're not being told, so I took the initiative and built a garden.
Built, installed boxes, terraced hillside to hold, dug out and in stone flagging, dug out fire pit (edge of ring lower right)
Fill boxes with a mix of vermiculite, compost and peat moss, surprising how much a 4X4 box can hold.
But in the end it's done. 3 days worth of work, but it looks pretty good, if I don't say so myself (I don't mind, I'm not modest...).
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Fast forward a month and a week and...
Boxes filling up, tomatoes, lettuce, sweet-peas...
In the far right corner I've begun a waterfall and fish-pond, which should be done in a week or so...
It's come along nicely. Shame, it's not my garden.
The Most Interesting Man in the World
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