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Not her personal bones. Her Dinosaur Bones! I sent a rock to Miley that I couldn't identify from the outside. (That happens a lot.) Miley identified it as dino bone. And she took some microphotographs.
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Scott ordered a batch of my dad's rocks that he wanted to tumble polish. Scott lives in the south-eastern part of the US. I've never been there, but evidently they don't have a lot of agate. (They do have some great marble quarries!)
Scott wrote:
All of the rocks I received from you are some of the best I have ever tumbled.
Aw shucks, Scott! All the credit goes to my dad. I just send 'em out.
And, speaking of credit, Scott told me that my dad's rocks were recommended by the web site,
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Ken and I worked together to get some really big Nevada Lovelock Jasper up to his shop in Oregon!
I can hardly wait for Ken to get some things made from this rock.
I was able to fit this monster into a USPS medium flat rate box (with a little grinding on some rock that was sticking out). But you should have seen the poison arrow looks I got from the postmaster when I mailed it.
This is worth a note here because, traditionally, I haven't been able to sell my bigger rocks. I have now checked into that. Shipping is Ex-Pen-Sive. Don't get me started on that. Why can Walmart ship a 50 pound bag of dog food to my door "free" but it would cost me as much as an aircraft carrier to do the same thing? FedEx, for example, quoted $182.91 to ship 50 lbs to Ken.…
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Macro magnifications of my dad's rocks are popping up all over. Here's a fresh batch from Miley.
First Up – DINO BONE !!!!! (But see the comment at the end.)
Dino bone was always my dad’s favorite rock. When I was a kid growing up, he had tons of it. But when I disposed of the family property many decades later, there was almost none left. My mother said he made many trips to the post office.
Miley tells me that this is my dad’s dino bone. I never would have recognized it. But now I think I’m going to get this photo made into wallpaper and cover the whole inside of my house. Maybe the outside too. – Just to start a fight with the Homeowner Association where I live.
Yellowcat Bark
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Angelo sent a new batch of pictures that he said were all of a "grayish purpleish piece" that I sent to him.
Quite frankly, I can't remember sending something like that to Angelo. But then, I send a lotta rocks to a lotta people. These photos are so cool that they deserve their own entry here.
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Update !!!! -- Angelo sent me pictures of the whole rock! My thinking about what the rock actually is has been revised. See my blog: Phunny Bone or Phoney Bone ?
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I think the first one is the most instructive. You may have heard of a dish called "Twice Baked Potatoes". Well, this rock is clearly a "twice petrified agate". (Update: And this blog contains "half baked conclusions!)
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This is WA-A-A-A-Y cool!
Angelo in Oregon just sent me some pictures of a slab of my dad’s dino bone taken with a 200X microscope …. THAT ATTACHES TO YOUR PHONE. I didn’t know anything like that existed. And it’s relatively cheap too. (The dino bone has a higher price tag than the phone attachment.)
I have been trying for years to get some high quality pictures of the “sticks” (some are reeds, others are wood sticks) in the center of the Algae-on-a-Stick that my dad found. My neighbor down the road is a professional photographer and I even talked him into coming up and taking a picture. But he didn’t own a macro lens for his expensive camera so that didn’t work out too well either. (His specialty is the landscapes of Zion Canyon.)
I’m gonna get one!
In the meantime, this is what a dino bone slab looks…
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I've been sending out a lot of $10 packages of Idaho Garnets. I don't know if people are attracted to the low price or the gem quality reputation of Idaho Garnets ... but I'm counting it as a success. But (except for the pictures in the blog that Miley and I co-wrote -- See https://www.kinesavarocks.com/post/garnets-a-star-in-the-east ) nobody has sent back pictures!
Ah gotta tell you folks! Sometimes I include free rocks in my packages. If you don't send back pictures, the rock turns into a lump of coal. Magic !!!
Except for Ken!
I just received some great pictures of Idaho Garnets that Ken polished. Most are clear, transparent gems but Ken wrote,"I can see one maybe star if light hits it just right." Miley got just one with a star too. From everything I see on the web, it's difficult. You have to position the dome of the cab…
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Peta scored a 14 inch rock saw for her lapidary shop! Now, Peta is such a cut up! One of the first rocks she sliced was a really weird rock that I sent to her in the hope that I could get some idea about what it was like inside. It's a strange one. If you have any ideas about what this rock is, leave a message for me.
Peta also cut up a Montana agate that I sent to her. It's hard to really tell what is inside a Montana, but a LOT of them turn up like this.
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Ken polished some of my dad's "Yellowcat Bark"!
(Avery from Oregon also polished some. See it at:
Compare this with Avery's cabs and you can see that, since all of these rocks are "casts" (the agate just filled the interior of a hole in the ground shaped like wood) , there is quite a bit of difference between Ken's cabs and Avery's cabs.
But it's alllllll good! See my essay, Yellow Cat Wood? Or Yellow Cat Bark?
