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[Rose of Tralee]

Top Mod 8 wrote:

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I just saw something on the news yesterday about some who found like a big chuck of gold using a metal detector. They said it was worth something like 500 million.

I think your math might be off a bit -$317.000. Rumor has it that the lucky Australian is Ghost Irish.

[Rose of Tralee]

Barbi A wrote:

<quoted text>Well, I've been butch and square pants. So, no.

and here I was feeling so special....

It just makes you my friend. lol...(I've wondered about square pants, because I think I look pretty good below the waist)
You remind me so much of my daughter, Rose. Speaking of, I found a container of "Expletive Band aids" in her medicine cabinet, sort of turned around so I wouldn't see them.
They are colored band aids with (I have to misspell here: "chit" "fluk" "ballz," etc. on each one. Am I old fashioned or is it wrong for a young lady to wear something like that on a scratch?

Every artist needs a little "shock and awe" to separate them from the masses (and the republican party).

[Barbi A]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>That's so weird to me. I know why but it's just so odd to think of houses without basements, having grown up with them. They're so practical and versatile!

Somebody told me we don't have basements because we don't have tornadoes and we don't need sump pumps, if that makes sense.
The house I lived in that did have a basement was very old and the man who built it was from the east. Hence, the basement. I loved that basement.

[Rose of Tralee]

Mia wrote:

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Mi(a) name I call myself....

Morning Mia

far a long long way from Rose

[Ferrerman]

Barbi A wrote:

<quoted text>Well, I've been butch and square pants. So, no. It just makes you my friend. lol...
(I've wondered about square pants, because I think I look pretty good below the waist)
You remind me so much of my daughter, Rose. Speaking of, I found a container of "Expletive Band aids" in her medicine cabinet, sort of turned around so I wouldn't see them.
They are colored band aids with (I have to misspell here: "chit" "fluk" "ballz," etc. on each one. Am I old fashioned or is it wrong for a young lady to wear something like that on a scratch?

Please don't say "colored". It's "African-American". It's the 90's, ya know....

[Rose of Tralee]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>That's so weird to me. I know why but it's just so odd to think of houses without basements, having grown up with them. They're so practical and versatile!

I wish we had them. You could say that our garages take their place and our cars get booted to the curb My grandmother did have a basement. But she was from the midwest and had the house built for her.

[Mia]

Rose of Tralee wrote:

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Morning Mia

far a long long way from Rose....

So, a weasels on 8's thread....

[Rose of Tralee]

Mia wrote:

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So, a weasels on 8's thread....

....and thats the way we like it

[Rose of Tralee]

Before signing off...has anyone heard anything from Artgal?

[Mia]

Hey Rose

La? A note that follows So?

Never mind.
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ArtGal? No, I haven't heard anything lately.

[_RandMan_]

Barbi A wrote:

<quoted text>thank you, TM 8. I'm sure the price of metal detectors will jump after that story!
I know some still pan for gold in the Sierra, but they only get tiny bits that are of little value, despite today's price of gold.

Barbi, I held a mining claim for about 15 years in Shirt Tail Canyon, up near Weimar. I have a 4" suction dredge and I could average about an ounce of gold a day with it, provided I was diving for about 8 hours. It's very hard work and you have to spend a lot of time under water to make it pay. Since gold dredging was outlawed, I gave up my mining claim. The environmentalists said it was damaging the salmon run. In fifteen years of diving in that river, I never saw one salmon. Maybe because there are no salmon in the Sierras and never has been? Duh...

[Ferrerman]

_RandMan_ wrote:

<quoted text>Barbi, I held a mining claim for about 15 years in Shirt Tail Canyon, up near Weimar. I have a 4" suction dredge and I could average about an ounce of gold a day with it, provided I was diving for about 8 hours. It's very hard work and you have to spend a lot of time under water to make it pay. Since gold dredging was outlawed, I gave up my mining claim. The environmentalists said it was damaging the salmon run. In fifteen years of diving in that river, I never saw one salmon. Maybe because there are no salmon in the Sierras and never has been? Duh...

Maybe because of all that dredging....

The gold shows make it pretty darn clear that finding gold (however it's done) is extremely hard and that it's rarely lucrative. They are more honest than the others in that respect. I read a blog entry from a woman who DOES buy storage lockers at auctions and barely breaks even in doing so. She said that with the popularity of the various storage shows, that living has gotten harder!

[_RandMan_]

Ferrerman wrote:

<quoted text>Maybe because of all that dredging....
The gold shows make it pretty darn clear that finding gold (however it's done) is extremely hard and that it's rarely lucrative. They are more honest than the others in that respect. I read a blog entry from a woman who DOES buy storage lockers at auctions and barely breaks even in doing so. She said that with the popularity of the various storage shows, that living has gotten harder!

I know quite a few full-time miners up on Shirt Tail that made well into six figures for a 7 month season.

Salmon don't live in the mountains. A couple of Indian tribes on the Klamath River up near the Oregon border sued to have dredging banned because of the decline in the salmon run. I don't suppose the fact that the Indians are allowed to stretch gill nets across the river and kill every living creature that attempts to swim upstream had anything to do with it. The rest of us can only use a hook and line. So they, in typical California bureaucratic fashion, outlawed gold dredging state wide.

By the way, you would be impressed with the many pounds of live mercury and lead I removed from the stream bed over the years. It's still in my garage.

[Barbi A]

_RandMan_ wrote:

<quoted text>Barbi, I held a mining claim for about 15 years in Shirt Tail Canyon, up near Weimar. I have a 4" suction dredge and I could average about an ounce of gold a day with it, provided I was diving for about 8 hours. It's very hard work and you have to spend a lot of time under water to make it pay. Since gold dredging was outlawed, I gave up my mining claim. The environmentalists said it was damaging the salmon run. In fifteen years of diving in that river, I never saw one salmon. Maybe because there are no salmon in the Sierras and never has been? Duh...

Salmon in the Sierras? lol! Don't some of the touristy sites still have gold panning? You know, a place you can take the kidlets for a history lesson?

[Charlie Mean Girl]

Hello, everyone. Does anyone have an update on ArtGal?

[DazzleDat]

Hey everyone! How's things going? Anything new?

[DazzleDat]

Charlie Mean Girl wrote:

Hello, everyone. Does anyone have an update on ArtGal?

Why are you mean? Did someone piss you off?

[Charlie Mean Girl]

DazzleDat wrote:

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Why are you mean? Did someone piss you off?

No? Did I do something that offended you?

[DazzleDat]

Charlie Mean Girl wrote:

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No? Did I do something that offended you?

No, I was wondering why Charlie Mean Girl name. You haven't been mean to me, that I recall.

[Ferrerman]

Barbi A wrote:

<quoted text>Salmon in the Sierras? lol! Don't some of the touristy sites still have gold panning? You know, a place you can take the kidlets for a history lesson?

I like fly fishing though I admit I use a swatter rather than a hook and line.