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Thrift shop masterpieces
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Meanwhile, a few thrift shop masterpieces found while out and about in the Kootenays...
#1 - Just Why?
You know, it's not the execution (they tried real hard), it's just the "why" of it all. Is it someone they knew? A Travelling Monk?
The paint-by-numbers Yellowstone with a few bears thrown in to make it the artist's "own".
A seriously retarded looking Princess Diana ...
And, finally, this masterpiece from the Nelson Share Store which recalls to me Stormy's talk of "Adams Apple Land"...
Maybe an all male Burlesque troupe that wanted to immortalize their act? I don't know. But again - it does beg the question "Why?". And how could anyone ever be so heartless as to give it up?
Room with a View
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Finally, the past 3 weeks living rough out of the jeep, a place to live. No small feat out here. An Air BNB, with a grey view over the lake, tentatively good until March, or the end of the pandemic, whichever comes first - or last. No one knows anymore. So it could just be a few short months, or a few months longer. It doesn't matter, I'll be warm for the winter and have regular access to a shower and internet. So maybe I'll be catching up.
Batshit Prospectors
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So, at home after a fruitless prospecting trip, I'm again searching for the Fluorite Vein, at 5 Mile Point , this time online. And I came across this gem of a document, a prospectors report of a claim he had, which he believed held a lost mine of riches. These are submitted to the Government as "Proof of Work" on claim, there's tens of thousands online. But this one stood out - a few of the highlights below:
It's gold, everything from the "untitled placemark" to the "Whole area bright Purple and Green rock formation" and the slanted pasted on Fig 37. He didn't actually climb up to the rock, he's just trying to imply it's fluorite.
It goes on and on, a surreal mockery of a prospecting document drawn up by a confirmed lunatic.
You can read the entire thing here: https://aris.empr.gov.bc.ca/ArisReports/32678.PDF
5 Mile Point
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A days prospecting adventure, 12 KM in and out, looking for an old fluorite vein marked on the MTO at 5 Mile Point. No sign of it. But a pleasant walk...
A maze out of river cobbles...
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