Moneybox
Philip & Sandra Box
Stuff the chocolates, I think I got gold...
As she handed me my gift she said "Sorry I could only afford Black & Gold".
Sometimes along our travels we find a gold specimen and it just ends up floating about the bus until one of us puts it away. Usually by the time we get to putting it away it's just 'another rock' and we have heaps of those. When we arrive home the rocks, bottles, relics and whatever else ends up in a pile, a drum or a box somewhere.
On the weekend Mrs M started unpacking some boxes of bottles that she's been avoiding for awhile. In amongst the bottles she found this little quartz rock marked AU on four sides. At least this one was marked, unlike most of the rocks we collect along the way.
It ended up as my Valentines gift when I got home from squash at about 9:30 last night. Lucky I had a packet of licorice allsorts hidden away Today I ran the SDC over it and it goes off like a decent nugget - even though no gold is visible I feel confident.
I just looked at it sitting here on the table and it spurred a thought. I remembered seeing an old out of date oxygen bottle sitting by the back fence.
Tomorrow I'm going to fire up the bandsaw and I think once it loses its head I'll have a ready made dolly pot
As she handed me my gift she said "Sorry I could only afford Black & Gold".
Sometimes along our travels we find a gold specimen and it just ends up floating about the bus until one of us puts it away. Usually by the time we get to putting it away it's just 'another rock' and we have heaps of those. When we arrive home the rocks, bottles, relics and whatever else ends up in a pile, a drum or a box somewhere.
On the weekend Mrs M started unpacking some boxes of bottles that she's been avoiding for awhile. In amongst the bottles she found this little quartz rock marked AU on four sides. At least this one was marked, unlike most of the rocks we collect along the way.
It ended up as my Valentines gift when I got home from squash at about 9:30 last night. Lucky I had a packet of licorice allsorts hidden away Today I ran the SDC over it and it goes off like a decent nugget - even though no gold is visible I feel confident.
I just looked at it sitting here on the table and it spurred a thought. I remembered seeing an old out of date oxygen bottle sitting by the back fence.
Tomorrow I'm going to fire up the bandsaw and I think once it loses its head I'll have a ready made dolly pot