Granny in Wonderland

I know this may have happened to you... Took me three calls to people pc before I got someone who spoke without an accent so bad , you could understand what he said...I tried net zero for a while but it runs so slow...

We went out rockhunting today... Got a few nice ones in a place where we have been before...

You wouldn't believe it but I fell into a rabbit hole...Now I'm not Alice but I ran into our newly elected president running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, looking at his watch, following the white rabbit... I think maybe they were late for the mad hatters tea party or something...Who knows...All I can say is that he was muttering something about we have to hurry and allocate the pork set aside to be doled out next year...It was payback time and he needed the 380 billion to get the people who elected him off his back...The white rabbit told him to back off that barrel...That was Republican pork he was wanting to cook...The tea party was in session and all the Republican congressmen were there...The Democrats sent the smiling cat to represent them...He just sat there grinning the whole time...Sometimes on the table and then on the top of the mad hatters hat... I had just poured some tea from the teapot that never ran out, when the Queen of spades came to tea...Hey!! ...She was a black Queen...She took command of the tea party...Obamma figured she was sure to find in his favor...Rat's!! ... Not so...After all this was a Republican Party...That silly cat just kept fading in and out...I think he wasn't a Democrat after all...Just a pimp for the Democratic party like Obamma...Nothing was accomplished at the party and after I climbed out of the rabbit hole I began to wonder just what is going to happen to this country...This president is nothing like Rosevelt who pulled us out of the last depression...And we never had such a national debt to get out from under then...Maybe I'll live to find out what happens... I wonder if it will be long...Granny

Hi Everyone!
I haven't met most of you yet since I am relatively new to the family. So far, it is great being a Stoke!
Jason and I went to the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum on Monday. It was amazing! We both thought that the collections easily rivaled the Denver Natural History Museum's collection. I am really taking a liking to the rhodochrysite :)

Cold here in Montana but...

I have read where Phillip is beginning to put his garden in down there in Wilhoit!! We have a condensed 3 feet of snow on the ground yet and frozen hard enought for the deer to walk on top of it!! A few minutes ago, it was 19 degrees outside. Bruce has been going in and out the last couple of days ( between going down to the shop and then back up to the house) and has been working on the posts and rails for the stairwell. He has been working this winter to do some of the finish work on the main floor of the house.

I have been going through my sewing tote boxes and have been prepping to do a bunch of sewing. I had moved away from doing much sewing while I worked 12 hour shifts when we lived on Oregon and now that I am not working anymore...........I am getting back in the swing of things!! I have already made some cute summer dress (with panty bloomers) for Sarah and David's little girl, Rhiannon. Today, I am going to sew together a sleeper for Travis. I have more fabric to cut out another sleeper for him but will need to get the one I will sew today down to Sis's to make sure the thing will fit him okay and to see if she would like me to sew the next one differently. Plan to go down to CDA area sometime over the next 2 weeks. Be happy and healthy. J--

Quartzite

Phillip and I went over to Quartzite this morning... On the way over we topped the short pass between Congress and Agulia ... Looking down into the valley, where Aqulia is situated between two mountain ranges, we were treated to the most awsome mirage ever... The scene ahead of us looked like the skyline of Chicago from the lake or something... All the small houses looked like they were skyscrapers... The fields were turned into a huge lake... And the mountains surrounding the valley were massive cliffs instead of the high crags that are really out there... The mountains off toward California looked like they were flat top mesas... We had wittnessed this mirage once before but not as spectacular as it was early this morning...
Quartzite was a beehive of humanity as usual...Density seemed to be 10 the square foot...Somebody must have made a new find of Dino bones in Utah as there were many dealers

that had massive chunks as well as the coprolites... I stocked up on some more of the garnet beads to make the necklaces with... Had to get a few findings and a used blade for the saw... Looks like new... Whole lot cheaper... Got oil for the saw... We are going to try the new synthetic oil this time... Most oil is $ 25. a gal but the new stuff is a blend of oils with a mineral oil base... I read where a lot of the rock cutters are going to it now... Smells better and is kinder on your skin...At $6. a gal it means a lot to the pocket book...

Phillip has started spading up the garden spot... He's thinking spring... Anyway it's time to plant the potatoes , snow peas and chard...Next week I will start some zucchini seeds in cups in the window...I've been unsuccessful so far in getting Phillip to use some old glass that was on the solar hot water heater, to make a small hotbed... Maybe if the squash plants get too big and start to droop over the sill, he will capitulate and make the hotbed... My fingers are crossed... I just have to get his nose away from the grinding wheel...Hey!! That's not the way it goes... I have to push his nose closer to get it done...Right?...Right!!... He does like to cut those stones... Anyway, have a good one ... Granny

Hello from Jim & Patti Hanks

Continue to let me know how I am doing with this. I prefer e-mail... it's easier but I'll keep trying!

Patti Hanks, Oklahoma City

Looks Great......

Looks great.... Looking forward to posting as time goes by. Not doing much here except watching the snow melt and working on year end books for the Park. Hope all is doing well.

I just knew this would happen.

As you can see, this is what can happen if you screw up like me... Glad to see some of the family has looked in and posted... Hope to see others looking in as well...Been lovely down here in the south...We got out the other day looking for arrowheads. ..Only found one broken one...Got a full measure of exersize and sunshine...Granny

Okay....this is a test to see if I know what the heck I am doing

If you see this test....let me know. I don't have a clue what I am doing so I am learining as I go. Jake, I like your pictures. Prospector Jake, the mountain man of Colorado, stepping in the footprints left by prospectors over 100 years ago!!

Lookin for the good stuff

Trying to find some Au.  I think I'm better at finding little pieces of quartz for Christmas ornaments rather than gold.  I'm not losing hope for the "big chunk" though.  This is a shot of some prospectin' action on Clear Creek.  I've seen the best color and most grains on this spot than any other on the creek.  The cool thing is that it is only a 15 minute drive from my place.  I can come home from a long day at work, head down to the water and work through a couple pans.  Not a bad way to unwind.

Yep about a pinch, maybe a half pinch.  Ok, more like a smidge or a quarter smidge.

Wow Grandma this is really cool!  I have never blogged before.  I guess there is a first time for everything.  I guess this would be the first place I would announce my "big gold nugget find!"  but first I need to find gold bigger than grains of sand and more than 8 grains at a time!  I'm getting better though, practice makes perfect right?

The Picture I lost somehow .

Somehow I screwed up and lost the picture I uploaded in the other post... I'll try this again...What the heck, I can only screw it up again or get it right...Right??

Rah! Rah ! ... Even fat old Grannies can get something right once in a while... Speaking of Grannies, You will be seeing more of the Granny Hanks cartoons on this blog in the future. I dare you to check in and see them.

WOW !! I did it.

Well here goes... Iv'e been thinking about doing this for a while and finally got up enough courage to try it.

I wanted to start a blog where the whole family could drop in for a few minutes and add their 2 cents worth... Hey! Even if you stay long enough to just drop your name, at least the rest of us will know you cared enough to touch base... I'm sure you are all looking forward to the new year... Donna said once that she thought the even years were lucky and the odd years not so lucky... Hell I don't know ...If I check back in my brain echos, maybe she is right about some years... I just hope that this odd year turns out to be lucky for all of us... Here it is over 2 weeks into this year and I still haven't won the powerball yet...But there again I haven't had any really bad luck yet...That was all last month... The thermostat on the oven went out...The washer went tits up...My watch ticked it's last second...And the small electric heater I used in the bathroom...heated up for the last time...Sheesh!! I was beginning to feel like the guy in" Lil Abner" that was under a cloud of bad luck last month of 08... But Hey!! Things are looking up for 09...Phillip and I found some smokey quartz crystals when we were down on the desert...I'm gonna try to add them to this post...Or any way one of them...They are such cute little guys... Not perfect specimens but they do have nice clear chunky areas great for faceting...The toothbrushsh is what I used to clean them with and I put it in for size comparison...