Searching for Jasper in the Owyhee Mountains

October 15, 2009

Saturday evening Jason called asking if I wanted to join him and Tony on a search for jasper in the Owyhee Mountains the next morning.  I had already made plans to move some unused furniture to my storage unit but that had to be postponed.  There were many trips to search for jasper this past [...]

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Carey – Muldoon Field Trip

October 2, 2009

About a month ago a friend at work told me about an Idaho Gem Club field trip to Carey, Idaho to search for moss agate.  I thought that it would be nice to go to the East to collect rocks so I sent an email to my friend Tony in Gooding, Idaho asking if he [...]

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A Sad Day for Pebblepup

September 30, 2009

The dog, Skeeter, in the logo for this site was my favorite of three dogs. Skeeter was almost 13 years old and had been having some problems over the past six months and had been getting worse the past few weeks. Wednesday my wife came home from work to find that Skeeter [...]

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What happened to August?

September 4, 2009

I can hardly believe that August is gone and I had not posted anything all month.  At the end of July I was looking forward to many posts since I had plans for many rock hounding adventures in August.  Some of the adventures happened but along the way life threw every curve ball possible at [...]

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Spider Man Jasper

July 21, 2009

A week ago Monday I went to visit my friends Bruce and Nancy and they gave me a piece of jasper they had recently found.  None of us had seen this jasper before.  The jasper is mainly black except for red lines that are spread out like spider webs.  It is very close to a [...]

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Tumbler Troubles

July 13, 2009

For a while now I have been noticing a soft spot forming on the bottom of one of my three pound tumbling barrels.   Normally I check my tumblers often so I wasn’t worried about the spot breaking because I thought that I would have caught the issue before it came to that. However a few [...]

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Elkins Gem Stones

July 10, 2009

A while back a friend of mine told me about a rock shop in Prineville, Oregon that had huge piles of quality rock starting at ten cents a pound.  This sounded unbelievable to me because the best shop I knew of before this started a dollar a pound and most shops I have visited start [...]

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Prineville Rock hound Powwow 2009

July 1, 2009

Each summer in the City of Prineville, Oregon there is a rock and gem show referred to as the Prineville Rock hound Powwow.  I have heard about how great this show is each of the three years I have been active rock hound.  I have always been reluctant in going to this show because it [...]

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Photos of my Highland Park Rock Saw

June 25, 2009

Recently one of my readers, James, left a comment asking for more pictures of my saw because he was working on getting his saw put together. He mainly wanted to see the pulley sizes and how the vice and auto feed went together. Here are some pictures of my Highland Park F5 rock [...]

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Yard Sale with Great Slabs

June 11, 2009

My friend, Bob Pyle, is have a yard sale Saturday and let me take a preview of what he is selling. I purchased these slabs from him and barely made a dent in the pile of slabs. If you would like purchase some quality slabs at fantastic prices the sale is at 2414 [...]

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