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Written by: Rod Boyle

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Published: 18 July 2019

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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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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Found

Published: 23 May 2019

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And the daughter's shown it to a few people, who doubt it's provenance, "how do you know it's old?" to which I suggest responding: "well, next time I'll carry bear spray...in case I run into one...no, wait, they've been extinct for 75,000,000 years..." and other bullshit from people who are completely unqualified to have any sort of opinion but nonetheless feel free to have opinions anyways. I mean, she found a dinosaur bone in an area renowned for dinosaur bones, in a place where they are so abundant that the museum leaves them "in situ" for people to see, but, really, it's impossible you could have found one. Must have been a cows' or gophers' tooth...don't feed the cows...

Smart daughter in a world of idiots, get used to it, in this world, the here and now, intelligence is a disability. I try to reassure her that after graduation, in University, she'll meet more intelligent people, more like minded people, but I know, I've been there, it's a lie...

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Written by: Rod Boyle

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Published: 23 May 2019

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....And articles like this:

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-48331769

You know that it's a slow news day in Australia when they report this stuff because, basically the entire continent is made out of Gold Nuggets and Koala Bears. 

The Australian Firefighter is back, beard ever longer, and as he sits in the restaurant I tease him mercilessly, the lazy Australian who has to come to Canada for work because he's too lazy to pick up all of the gold nuggets outside his front door...

AU - The abbreviation for both Gold and Australia. We live in a world of metaphor and that can hardly be a coincidence...

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Written by: Rod Boyle

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Published: 23 May 2019

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Work, Sleep, Calgary, and when I return and catch up one news it has to be articles like this:

Link: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/aussie-girl-stumbles-across-35k-gold-nugget