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Posted on 11/10/2005 4:24:35 AM PST by Aquamarine
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Thanks! :)
No wonder you stay there, it's gorgeous.
Oh, what a neat animated jpeg.
When we visited the Falls years ago it was freezing and the mist from the Falls was coming down as snow on a sunny day. That sort of thing is amazing to a Southerner.
Love looking at the bling blings
But did you know the Hope Diamond is cursed?
did you get my Frmail?
Hi Pippin. Have heard that but don't believe in that sort of thing.
As for "rocks," coming from flat Florida where pretty ones do not proliferate, it was wonderful when we went to live in Rapid City, South Dakota!
With the boys 6 and 7, we went exploring often, taking picnic lunches or things to grill in parks.
Steve and Kevin were trained to help Mom gather "pretty ones" - and there were LOTS!! Going from the sagging trunk of the car to the back porch, my collection grew.
When we were transferred to Fairbanks, Alaska and the movers were unloading the van, one staggered down the ramp exclaiming,"Whadda ya have in here, lady - rocks?"
The boys and I doubled over with laughter, because that was exactly the content..:))
In later years, my husband was a retail store manager, and then a jewelry store manager and certified gemologist.
While I would have been able to have any precious gem ring I wanted at cost, I never desired one - still only have a simple wedding band.
More precious to me was Mother's Day in 1962 when in South Dakota we came upon an abandoned rose quartz mine. My two little guys gleefully loaded in the trunk some spectacular ones of every size.
I still have one of those in my living room, a few in flower beds, and small ones in scattered displays.
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We went from there to preserved historic Fort Laramie, and in the Gift Shop there, they spent their precious savings on a bracelet for me with (inexpensive) stones set in.
We learned there why Custer is a dirty word - - not a hero.
"Gen. George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition of 1874 changed everything. It sparked the last great gold rush in the continental U.S., giving birth to Deadwood but also violating the Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux. Their rage was unleashed on Custer and his Seventh Cavalry just two years later at the Little Big Horn."
And that was deserved - Custer had negotiated the treaty with the Indians, passed by Congress, "promising" the Indians the settlers in South Dakota would not expand into the Indians' territory, if the fort was left in peace.
He violated that , and the gold rush decimated thetr tribes all over the West.
The only rock I deeply appreciate and desire is this one - -
Well....
Not much anyway! ;o)
Cool sight I just found. http://www.ebpm.com/niag/regpix/glry_niag_w-icebr02.html
I gotta go, in the spring I'll take some pics of all the ice flowing down the river, it's awesome.
I did get your FR mail, Pip. Have been working on the Veterans Day post for the weekend and haven't had a chance to think yet about how or when to do your latest thoughts, but will, be sure of that!
I LOVE that gif, Rus. Think I've seen you post it before, and it is awesome!
That was so practical of you not to pick out a ring or pendant at the jewelry store.
Unreal! Looks as though the winters were much colder back then.
I would so love to stay and play here but we are moving Jk's mom into her assisted living apartment today and, between Jk and myself and his brother, we have a full day of furniture moving and room decorating ahead of us.
Gotta run, but I wish you all a Fine day as you play among these gorgeous baubles.
The Spoonmaker's Diamond The pride of the Topkapi Palace Museum and its most valuable single exhibit is the 86-carat pear-shaped Spoonmaker Diamond, also known as the Kasicki. Surrounded by a double-row of 49 round-cut diamonds and well spotlighted, it hangs in a glass case on the wall of one of the rooms of the Treasury. |
They were I guess, but if we did not put the ice boom in lake erie every year it could happen quite often.
They put in these cables and pontoon that hold the ice on to the lake, they release it in the spring and the river looks like a moving ice bridge for a couple days.
I forgot to send it to Dutchess and Aqua.
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