This and that.

Some kinda cool beetles of some kind.  They like the mint flowers that's for sure.
All kinds of bugs out doing their mint sipping.  Butterflies too.

Weird thing.  Hadn't heard from this guy who has a shitload of sapphires from all over the world, for almost 5 years, and out of the blue he e-mails me saying he is going to be in Montana in June, July and Aug. Seems he remembered Phillip said he would take him up to the Sweetwater Canyon area where we found the blue grey star sapphires in the pink matrix.  Hell this was the last year we were in Mt and he never showed up. Anyway he can meet with Dick Berg from Mt. Tech, and have him show him where they are.  I told Dick where we got the specimens and we gave him some for the college.
If you would like to see his web site and a lot of cool sapphires,  it's ...
www.corunduminium.com......

I mentioned a while back that the old Mitsubishi modem finally gave up the ghost.  Went to town today to get a few things and the concrete mix for the back porch Phillip is putting in, and stopped at the thrift store.  They had about a dozen flat screen ones, and since the old PC is a Gateway, I figured an HP modem would be ok.  Put it up on the counter for a bit while I did some more looking around.
Picked up a couple of thins and went up to check out and the modem was gone.  The new kid running the place took it back to the office to make sure it worked.  Said it was no good but he had one in the back that was better.  Wow he did and it works great.  It's a 21 inch IBM and cost me 5 bucks for it and all the other stuff I got. Makes me a happy dude.  Great thrift store.

Granny