Luna Mew

Today I got my little kitty from heaven!

My image of Mary holding baby Jesus stone!

Hi all!  Just a quick post about my "madonna stone" or Holy Mary holding the papoosed baby Jesus.  This took at least 4 trips to the lapidary with plenty of polishing involved maybe a total of 3 shop hours.  It is one of my first cabochons that I made from rough rock. This started out as a 3 pound piece of Bog Jasper then I slabbed it and noticed the image right away and tried to capture its beauty.
heres a pic of it that is on E-Bay

http://cgi.ebay.com/Holy-Mary-holding-baby-JESUS-cabochon-Bog-Jasper-/220824831945?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336a2f87c9#ht_500wt_949

Here is a pic of it for after my auction ends.   Thanks

favorite cabs

summer rain

Hi Art here, real quick statement about the rain, today is July 5 and we got our first summer rain.  Last years I can't remember but just going down the blog posts in history will uncover last years rain.  From my memory, we had 2 days last year, I know we blogged about one of them.

Right now the pumpkins are the size of small oranges. Hooray!

YES!! This is a pencil that was gifted to me today by by a 70 year old couple that goes to my church. What is funny is that they were in Hamilton Montana and knowing that i graduated from there had a great idea to go to the high school and ask if they had a pennant or flag they could buy for an alumni(me). They haven't been in a high school in decades. They apparently did not acquire the necessary visitor pass!!! Instead of getting me a gift they were given this pencil asked to leave and told not to come back?? High school isn't what it used to be ehh?

Check out some of our work

We are loving our Lapidary classes! We have cut several cabochons and still work on soapstone and some newly acquired alabaster at home since we only have hand tools here. The tomato plants are trees!.... we have lots of garden growing. I'm not feeling so wordy today so Ill write more this next week. 

I looked back

And realized I am also looking forward. It was fun for me this week to see how much I blogged this time last year. We were so excited and freshly clean and full of hope. Now we are the fulfillment and the culmination of that hope. I am exactly where I want to be doing exactly what I dreamed I would. No I haven't forgotten my long lost children, I am investing in myself, and praying Gods will be done, and I feel less tragic, and more humbly hopeful. I have been opening doors I boarded up long ago, and closing ones I should never have opened. Joining our Lapidary school is awesome...I feel oddly akin to the rock hounds there...like Im home after a long journey or back at a familiar place. The pumpkins are behaving perfectly. Our crazy little sunflowers that have millions of babies are back 6 strong. The tomatoes are making roots to China, and all the nursury plants are repotted and up for adoption (haha sale).  Our yard is way clean and other than the dust from carving soapstone, the house looks great. Theres never been more life on the Rancho...we even have a new tenant...they eat rattlesnakes and cactus.....sounds like great fun!  

New Fun

 We joined the San Diego Lapidary Society

 once a rock hound always a rock hound! They are great people so we found! Art and I are seeding the front field today. The pumpkins have several leaves now. All art wants to do is Google rocks and hike, but hes been faithful to the tomatoes and jack o lanterns !!! 

I have refreshed our plant supply. We have some pretty little babies up at the victory garden. Life is in full bloom on el rancho be damned!. 

Soapstone Honeymooners

Steatite

A huge step

Well, I did my hair folicle drug test today, and we are all legal with the car and our licenses and insurance. Yep Im bragging. We have bigger tomato plants than YOU DO...Muah hahahah! Cant catch us now. 

new life

I don't feel the blog bug today. I have given up on the idea that there are other people reading this....how could there be...we don't tell people about it...but more what I have found id that I love to read back at what I was doing last year now. Our sober b-day is here, and our blog b-day is coming up. I hope to celebrate. Until then ...hi future art and tilly, you will love these pics!

Back to the farm....back to the blog.

Well if anyone is really out there listening, we began planting on the farm yesterday. I will take some photos. Its supposed to be 77 out today...so I bet we get a lot done.

plants

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