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Not my thing, but a couple of diverging articles on the net the past week have somewhat amused me.
The first, a small town in Japan has made trading cards out of the middle aged men that live there, highlighting their roles in the community and volunteer efforts. This, in an effort to connect the generations, apparently it's proven highly successful and made celebrities of the men profiled.
Link: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
The second, I'm presuming, is an American who's created a 54 card deck entitled "Enemies of Democracy", by Todd Alcott, a sanguine look at American Politics...
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHy-T35ySq4/?img_index=2
Different nations, different cultural values and priorities...
The Glory Hole - Wallace Pond
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Found this in the thrift shop the other day and had to share:
They say "don't judge a book by it's cover" but in this instance the title was enough. Imagine how pleased I was to flip it and find out it was a local historical novel?!
It's actually signed inside by the author, whom Google could tell me nothing about (a search found a similar book by a different author, found the same book but ascribed a different author to it, so...?? How does this even happen nowadays?)
Anyways, if the title and blurb on the back didn't tell me all I need to know, to go farther down this road would be cruel.
Fun, but cruel. I might give it a read but I doubt I'll be reviewing it anytime soon...
3 Arrowheads, Tools, and a bunch of rocks
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Actually 5 arrowheads, counting the 2 that Christopher found.
Monday, cool and rainy, trip out past Balfour with Christopher, do some prospecting up Cedar creek road. Some interesting rocks, promising conditions, but no great finds.
Then back to Balfour where we comb the washout from the ferry landing run off, Chris a few feet ahead of me finds 2 arrowheads, both in relatively great condition:
I'm annoyed beyond measure, but we keep hunting, going down the beach past the restaurant, the bad neighbor to where the new trailer park will be. And heads-down comb the beach for about 3 hours in the drizzle and rain.
In the end I find a total of 3 arrowheads and a couple of scrapers, tools, and a pile of rocks. Just rocks, interesting to me.
Below:
bottom left, a scraper, green chert, you can see the knapping on the edge. Next to it a yellow-ish spear head, the yellow is a patina that forms on the chert over thousands of years, making it tough to spot (vs the fresher flakes), but to handle it you can feel every divot and knapped edge. No coin for scale but it's about an inch and a half long. I say spear vs arrowhead as it's a little think in the center, not well enough balanced to be fired off from a bow. To the right on the bottom, a fresher point, beside that, a grey arrowhead, again covered in patina, next to that a needle or aul, otherwise, a few other tools, scrapers, flakes, and the assorted rocks that I find interesting and invariably stuff my pockets full of. The pink quartzite "scraper" is a paleo-maybe, no obvious signs of work but I found it a little too conveniently shaped to leave behind.
Now, getting a taste for the season...
2 Boxes of Random
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So, after the previous blog posts at the Library back home where I'm tackling the boxes of random shit problem.
I unpacked 2 boxes, about as much trauma as I can endure per day.
Finds included:
- 1 broken antique telephone (sadly it might have broken on my watch, now good only for mixed media parts)
- 1 Medalta Crock-Pot lid
- 2 bottles of lavender essential oil
- 1 bottle of orange essential oil
- 1 bottle of wild oregano essential oil
- 1 sonic denture cleaner, new in box (bought for rocks)
- coloured contacts (searched, not good after 10 years, glad I checked)
- 1 bottle Tylenol
- 2 tweezers, 2 nail clippers
- 1 badger-hair barber brush (for shaving)
- 1 hand-blown glass toothbrush holder...
- 1 razor, disposable
- 5 antique calipers
- 1 bottle linseed oil
- 1 plastic container filled with flints and springs from discarded disposable lighters
- 1 filter for vintage 35 mm camera
- pack of 4 flashbulbs
- 1 thing you look through, stereoscope, modern, plastic, suspect it was meant for watching 3D movies on phone but not sure
- 1/4 tube Polysporin
- 12 empty gel caps, in bottle
- 2 (more!) jars of tiger balm
- 1 temporary tattoo of flowers
- 1 bottle of ink for stamp-pads
- 1 legal embosser/stamp
- container of model paints
- a bunch of the old close-up lenses for phone, cheap, clip on over phone lens
That covers most of it. Now only to open and process the remaining 16 boxes...
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