When using a tumbler to polish rocks, it is important to check the hardness of the stone, and/or KNOW what stone it is. The reason is that if you tumble softer stones with harder stones, the harder stones will grind the soft ones into sand.

About a week ago, my Bestie found this cool rock. (The big one).


It was still dirty and I thought she had found a Petoskey Stone, which is fossilized coral. She said she found it up by Lead, SD. Petoskeys are found in Michigan, especially near the Great Lakes. They are not found in the Black Hills of SD.

After washing it off, I saw no coral formations, so it is not a Petoskey. It looks like Dolomite with these cool quartz veins. It should look awesome once it has been polished.


I ran it in Stage 1 (46/70 abrasive grit) for a week. Took it out today and ... oh my.


What I thought was quartz, which has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (diamond is 10), turns out to be Calcite, which has a hardness of 3. 

It still turned out to be a cool rock. I cleaned out the holes with a waterpik and they are connected. There might be a pocket of crystals in the back. I put it under the stereoscope and can confirm they are Calcite crystals. Calcite is very common in limestone and dolomite. Quartz, not so much.

Bestie is happy with her cool find now that it is all clean and smooth. I got a reminder to check the rocks carefully before starting them in the next cycle. Back to the basics.

I don't understand it with the already famous, which she was.

I do, sadly, sometimes understand it with the sad and lonely. They inadvertently (or intentionally) step on some hot button landmine, and the subsequent attention they get — affirmation, criticism AND then support from people who attack their critics to defend them... they find addicting. So they lean into it.

She just seems to be suffering some sort of break down.

Yes, these are clearly her long-held and secret positions. But why she is just turning her life's focus into hatred... makes little sense. I sincerely hope she gets help at some point.

Unsure which is worse:  boob, back, or underarm sweat.

I think I would pick underarm.

@LoriDee
Dear Lori:
I am sorry to read about your "80 degrees boob sweat" problem!!!!
 
Here where I am the temperature was 23 deg(f) early this morning.
The recent afternoons are in the low to mid 50 degree(f) range.

Have a good day and i hope that you had a nice lunch with your bestie.
HUGS, Danielle

Lunch with my Bestie today. Then had to go to Menard's for a furnace filter, then Walmart to get some essentials (coffee, milk, eggs, bread... and donuts, of course).

It is now 80 degrees. Boob sweat. The struggle is real.

There is a mysterious flower that grows here in the Black Hills. I first saw one up near my gold mining spot. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing. They are called Dame's Rocket (among other things). They only bloom in May and have no scent. Until sundown, then they are reported to have the most wonderful fragrance.

I have been back to that spot several years in a row, but couldn't find one. My thinking was that I would bring one home and plant it so I could see how it smelled in the evening.

Today, I spotted three of them growing near our parking lot! I will be out tonight to sample the perfume.



This week keeps getting better and better.

I used to respect her....silly me.

Cumberland sausages fried egg & chips

She gets worse and worse..

Turned out fine, meat is very tender. Not sure if that is down to the cooking or just good meat. Simple recipe from the same as "mums chicken curry" this is a family lamb and spinach from the same mum.
 Its been a good day, that's all you can ask for.