Smushes from Mouse...

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Hi everybody...

 

I shared some of this with some of you earlier but thought I might edit

it into a " smush " post and let all my buds know what is going on with me

and mine today. Sorry if you see this more than once - I know alot of us

share some lists...

 

First thing is, I should keep this short and sweet because I am using

the wrong keyboard. I spilled iced tea on my good keyboard and now it

won't work right - it needs to be cleaned or replaced I guess. It is an

old Apple keyboard that splits in the middle so you can adjust it

however you need too and the number pad is detachable if you don't use

it alot you can take it off. It is also: Out of production, hard to

find and you need an adapter to use it with the newer systems - but I

just gotta have one, ya know? But for now I have to use this itty bitty

little thing that came with the iMac and it HURTS!!! Even the darned

mouse is too small to hold properly - makes me remember why I went to

all the trouble of getting the adapter for the old one in the first

place. The layout is so different I can't hit the right keys either -

believe me this post is Seriously spell checked! Since I don't type for

a living anymore (except in daily email and that's alot of my life I

guess... hahaha) my carpal tunnel has remained under control but using

this thing it won't for long!! So if I am even more quiet the next week

or so that is why so please bear with me. Bums me out too 'cos I'm

coming out of this funk I have been in and all those aches and pains

from my fall, and I am ready to chat - not to mention I having TONS of

mail to catch up on. Everyone I owe personal mail too, please forgive me

for being so late on responding. I do have lots of things I want to

chat about when I can. I have book reviews I want to share and tons of

other stuff...

 

Here's the story on my newest ones. (The corrected version too - I had

some names mixed up when I wrote about these to one group earlier.)

 

Two packages of new stones arrived today and I am beside myself

delighted!! One of them was a large quartz collection - PLUS extras!!!

He sent more than was auctioned for a total of: 4 crystals from Japan, 9

crystals from China, 9 crystals points/clusters from Mexico, 15 Herkimer

Diamonds from New York, 7 mini clusters from Mt. Ida, and 5 from

Madagascar! The ones from China, Japan and Madagascar are the all the

" candlestick " shape crystal points and very very beautiful. I also got 9

crystal quartz points/clusters from Alaska/Canada on another auction

from the same guy. I won't brag about what a great deal I got on these

but I think it's safe to say they were meant to be mine! I went looking

for enough quartz crystals to surround my whole body in a layout and I

wasn't disappointed that's for sure. There are pictures of them in my

photo album if you wanna take a look...

Here is the link: femme_mommy

 

The five Madagascar points are sooo wonderful - great energy to them.

One of them has what looks and feels like a little piece of iron

sticking out of the bottom of it. Your guess is as good as mine as to

what it really is but it looks just like a cavity that fell out of a bad

tooth! Hard, dark and pointy/oddly shaped... whatever it is, it only

penetrates into the crystal a little bit, just enough to hold it there

is seems. Interesting huh?

 

And the quartz points from China - OMG!!!! They just about take your

breath away. They are very clear and straight and long - small

candlesticks I guess - and have a awesome tone to them. One of them is

quite the warrior with lots of " battle wounds " on him, but the others

(at first glance anyway) seem almost perfect in their angles and clarity

and termination's (the Madagascar one's are the same in shape, just more

" hazy " in clarity). Just wonderful pieces. There are nine of the Chinese

ones - enough to do a really cool layout or grid, huh? YIPPEE!! ;-)

 

The four from Japan are about the same as the Chinese ones but are very

small and sweet... These are the ones I had backwards - I was thinking

the Japanese ones were the Chinese ones and vice versa. Of course I had

to open the package while still in the car and immediately lost one of

the ID tags. lol! Honestly, I am already having a hard time

remembering which are which - I'm sooo confused... I hope I have listed

them correctly this time! ;-}

 

The second package included several Pecos diamonds that are just

gorgeous and intricate and will be lovely to spend time with AND several

amethyst clusters from Ontario with have red hematite tips.

 

The little ones from Arkansas included two twins and one of those is a

tabby! What can anyone tell me about twins and/or tabby's?

 

I haven't had much time to spend with these new spirits yet having only

opening the packages this afternoon but do I love them already! I am so

tickled to have acquired such a collection all at once - I hope they

like living here as much I like sharing the space with them. I am

running out of places to put stones though - I need to get more shelves

I guess... it looks like a rock shop in here for sure. I think alot of

us are in the same boat as far as that goes, huh?

 

UGH!!! I can't stand this keyboard! ouchouchouch.... I hope I have

caught all the typo's I have been making.

 

I still waiting on a one more package - 5 Mini Scepter Crystals from

Madagascar, one Red Hematite Phantom Quartz Crystal from Madagascar and

a Botswana agate nodule. I am really excited about those and can't wait

till they get here... sample pictures of those are in the album too.

 

Oh yea, more about my Herks... I noticed some details on one of them a

few days ago. I have crystals inside an antique dish here next to the

computer and more stones keep finding there way there somehow... hahaha.

I have several Herks and black tourmaline (found a handful of small

pieces I had tucked away and forgotten about!!) and rough iolites

sprinkled across the top of a manganocalcite cluster... it looks soooo

beautiful that way - I have GOT to get some film already so I can share

this with you. That group is surrounded on all sides by everything else

under the sun - or at least most of my small and/or tumbled collection!

Love it!!

 

Anyway, I was waiting on a download or something and got engrossed in

gazing at the dish of stones. I noticed that one of the larger Herks has

stairsteps on it!! Well, I guess they are stairsteps anyway - I need

someone to tell me what these are. They are near the tip of one of the

termination's but the " indented " area for lack of better terminology, is

three sided - it looks like an amphitheater to me... three sets of steps

that go down to a round spot like a little stage. Very very neat

looking... there is also an extra facet on one side - a small triangle

of steps at the spot where two " walls of steps " meet. It looks like

there would of been more sides to the formation but it was broken off -

eons ago probably as the back side of it is self healed I think. It is

so pretty and interesting and fascinating to gaze at...

 

Then to top that discovery off, the new package of Herks arrived and

they really are fabulous! I am so glad to have meet these sweet

spirits... but the coolest thing of all is one of them has the same kind

of formation in about the same area!! It is the itty-bittyest of the

new ones and on one side there this a " hole " right next to the

termination that is stair-stepped the same way, only it has at least 5

sides! The piece is very small and I doubt I could ever get a good

photo of the formation... I ought to get a loupe and try to look at it

closer though, try to count exactly how many facets are there if I can.

 

I can't wait to study them all more closely and see just what I've got!

And so much for me keeping this short and sweet - Ha! But I just had to

share my excitement about this new batch and ask your opinions on those

formations. I'm sure it is something I have read about but never having

one before I'm just not sure what they are - I just know they are special!

 

HEY WOW! One of the Chinese ones is double terminated with an Inner

Child on one end! How cool is that!! The twin tabby, the other twin

and this DT are sleeping with me tonight - along with the other two

already on my person! YIPPEE - I am so excited about these stone spirits!

 

Right now (except for the two that claimed me - one of each - and wanted

to be close to me right away) the new candlesticks points from China and

Madagascar are all resting around the edge of my dish, pointing outward

and upward towards the universe... just lovely...

 

Well I guess this is enough rambling about my stones for now. Hope you

guys enjoy looking at the album if you find time to check it out...

 

I have another cool ebay find that I am excited about too. I bought an

antique book (another one of my passions) called " Our Wasteful Nation "

by Rudolf Cronau and published in 1908. It is signed inside the cover

" To my companion on board of the steamer " Main " , Rudolf Cronau, April 1,

1909 " . Tucked inside the book is a note, written (in both english and

german) in that wonderful cursive writing folks all seemed to have ages

ago that says, " Passengers are earnestly requested to stay in their

rooms and keep doors locked until further notice as one of the lions

broke his cage and is roaming about " . Is that a riot or what? That is

basically why I bought the book - I love quirky little things like that.

It is also about environmentalism and how cutting all the trees,

killing all the animals and ruining the rivers is a bad thing to do -

funny we are still telling folks that 100 years later and they still

don't listen... hmmmm.... What is wrong with that picture, huh?

 

But anyway, once I got it in my hands and started checking on this

Rudolf Cronau guy, I found out he is quite famous! He is actually the

guy who sketched/painted the pictures of Sitting Bull and other famous

First Americans that we have all seen in history books. He also studied

art in Duesseldorf and his photos and paintings of the " wild west " are

highly sought after and very pricey! He was a reporter for both German

and American newspapers and was often published in all sorts of

magazines and booked everywhere for lectures about history and his

travels around the world. He wrote some very famous and historically

valuable books about Baron Von Steuben, the American Revolution and a

huge volume about German immigrants in American. Now how's that for a

$2 purchase huh? I'm trying to find out more about him and this book

but not having alot of luck so far. It has a few photos that seem to be

his but I'm sure the originals are in a museum somewhere already so I

don't know if the small size of the few in this book are valuable or not.

 

I'd love to know who the " companion " he gave it to is but I can't find

the passenger manifests for that voyage to even make a guess at that. I

know the ship left Breman Germany the end of March and arrived in New

York on April 12, 1909 and the Ellis Island register confirms he was on

that trip but that's all that I can find about him for that time frame.

Most of the passenger records from Germany have been lost and what Ellis

Island and other sites has is pretty spotty. I think I will check with

some of the big auction houses to see if his autograph or this book are

valuable at all. Imagine, I am holding in my hands something that

belonged to someone who personally knew Sitting Bull and shook his

hand... how cool is that??

 

How many degrees of separation is that? Does that count with objects or

only if you actually know the person? hehehehehe...

 

I also wanna know what is up with the caged lions on board - an early

Siegfreid and Roy doing nightly performances perhaps? hahahaha...

 

How's the weather everyone? It is snowing like the dickens here - I

think we are supposed to get 6 inches... good thing it rained and melted

most of what we already had, huh? The main road to town is Horrible. I

went to my nephews basketball game this afternoon (1st tournament game

and they won!) - it was raining when I left and snowing to beat all heck

on the way home. There was a car wrecked at the entrance to my

community when I got back - it was was halfway up a telephone pole, just

resting on the fence and a guide wire!! Luckily the two guys inside

were okay - I have NO idea how they got out of the car with tipping it

over on themselves though - it was perched very uneasily, practically

standing straight up!! I heard alot of sirens in the few hours right

after we got home and the lights flickered alot for a while so I think

it's save to say my roads aren't safe for man or beast. Looks like I'm

not going anywhere for a few days I guess. So much for the pagan

homeschool pitch-in I was supposed to go to tomorrow, huh? I hope they

reschedule it.

 

Those of you on Tahitian beaches or in other warm places, please keep

your weather reports to yourself! Humph! <WEG>

 

And so much for me keeping this short and sweet - I've practically

written my own book here... Told you I was feeling chatty, didn't I?

Well, I better go ice my wrist now though. Good night everyone, sleep

tight and don't let the bedbugs bite!

 

Hope everyone is safe, warm and happy (and surrounded by lovely crystals too!)

 

Peace and love to all,

 

Mouse