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Post by jamesp on May 10, 2024 1:26:58 GMT -5
Thanks Jason. Finally sleeping regular. Endorphins heal slow if they can ever go back to normal. The pleasure component is damaged to some degree. I can't speak for everyone...but I can say I do know a person "can" kick it...and get back to some semblance of normality. Since I'm referring to myself, take the definition of "normality" with a grain of salt. All kidding aside...I know what you're going through. Oh the recounting of events I could tell you! If you need an empathetic ear, don't hesitate to contact me my friend! * Like I told my wife when she agreed to marry me...I haven't been a saint all my life! (She quickly informed me I have a better chance hitting the Powerball than I do being "sainted"... ) I think your wife knows she is a very lucky lady Jason. I think both of our wives would have a lot more to worry about if we were neighbors and arriving at sainthood would become a total impossibility. I doubt either wife would be content with normal. We could just remind them all is well when we trained them to forgive us for all forms of our behavior .
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2024 0:35:57 GMT -5
jamesp Can you slide down those rocks? Looks pretty slippery. Certainly where the water flows on it Tela.
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2024 0:34:44 GMT -5
No shortage of tasks here to burn off discomforts Henry. Lesson learned, deal w the aches and pains and avoid the painkillers. Was it hurricane Rita that dumped 50 inches on Houston. Incredible. 4 inches in an hour can be so destructive too. Texas does everything big. Liking those specimens you cut and buffed up. The wood looked very familiar. Texas also has fine silica. Denise took that photo of the pups. Harvey dumped 40 to 50 inches on Houston Galveston in 3 1/2 days. The Beaumont - Port Arthur area had 60 plus. You really cannot drive in a 4 inch an hour rain, although that doesn't seem to faze some fools. The worst I have been thru was the 2016 Tax Day Flood, we go almost 16 inches of rain in about 5 hours. We had between 8 and 10 inches during the Memorial Day 2016. It was a very wet month and half!! Those are serious rains. 60 inches ?!#$@, it was Harvey. You guys had another heavy rain a week ago. We had 6 inches in just over an hour a long time(30 years) ago. The storm cell was barely 10 miles in diameter. It flooded small creeks and turned them into rivers. Lots of damage.
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2024 0:28:41 GMT -5
jamesp - Got ya in my prayers brother!! Thanks Jason. Finally sleeping regular. Endorphins heal slow if they can ever go back to normal. The pleasure component is damaged to some degree.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 13:33:41 GMT -5
Yeah, tough one to beat. Talk about making lemonade from lemons. That stream looks very inviting. That little stream fed our plant business for 25 years Tela. Even at 10 gallons per minute in the summer it still provided plenty.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 13:30:37 GMT -5
jamesp That dog picture is hilarious. Look forward to seeing your granite specimen. I can relate to using lapidary as a meditative mental health aid. Hope you are feeling better.👍 It took 4 months before I could get good sleep Khara. I feel for those that use heavy doses of that drug. The doc had me on a low dose and it still about whooped me quitting. When they say opiate epidemic they are accurate. The predominate tree growing on the granite bedrock is winged elm. It clings to that hard rock well. Their root system is intense and reaches far for wet soil. Probably not a good candidate to plant near a septic system.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 13:23:35 GMT -5
5 month and 2 year old doing their wrestling game. No dogs were injured. Great shot! I've missed your pupper pictures. Denise snapped that one Tela. Credits go her way. That puppy is a liver nose meaning she has bright orange martian eyes. She makes amusing photos.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 13:20:53 GMT -5
Hang in there, we are always here and I am glad you have some good tasks to focus on. One of the 4 inch an hour rain we have here would clean that granite off!! Diane enjoyed the dog picture. Henry No shortage of tasks here to burn off discomforts Henry. Lesson learned, deal w the aches and pains and avoid the painkillers. Was it hurricane Rita that dumped 50 inches on Houston. Incredible. 4 inches in an hour can be so destructive too. Texas does everything big. Liking those specimens you cut and buffed up. The wood looked very familiar. Texas also has fine silica. Denise took that photo of the pups.
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 1:30:09 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2024 1:10:18 GMT -5
5 month and 2 year old doing their wrestling game. No dogs were injured.
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Post by jamesp on May 3, 2024 9:35:56 GMT -5
Yummy stuff Hank. Glad to see you got the polisher going.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 2, 2024 1:52:16 GMT -5
jamesp, thanks for your explanation. I wasn't going to make you read a long quote, so here I am...again. Interesting use of "fell out" in comparison to how it was used here. "Done fell out," or "fell out," was used in the medical setting to describe that someone had fainted or passed out. It was used so much here in parts of Los Angeles (mainly black neighborhoods), that it became a common term for us first responders. It is interesting to find the origin of such language forms. I remember working with Black folks at moving companies in highschool during summers. It was a learning experience in language forms for sure. They had a fun demeanor full of character and knew how to always have a good time.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2024 14:49:36 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these again. They are just too beautiful. Lots of eye candy. Thanks Tela. Glass is a fun tumble because it shapes quickly in the tumbler(unlike coral or Montana agate that is so hard).
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2024 14:46:31 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2024 14:38:12 GMT -5
Most are from hand blown vases and the local glass blower's shards. Plier type glass nippers were used to chip perimeter shape. Rotary shaped and finished in a modified vibe. Thick sugar 'syrup' used in vibe steps. Thanks for looking. That's great looking stuff James. Is that leftover glass when you first started working on it, or are you still going out and searching for it? I seem to recall you've gone through a fair amount of it making slabs and stuff like in this thread. What do you do with it, other than supplying knappers with some slabs? I used to FALL OUT laughing until Dad gave me a you-will-pay look. Well, now you have me cracking up by seeing that term being used. Is that actually a southern colloquialism? The reason I ask is that it was constantly used in the predominantly black South Los Angeles, where there were significant numbers of folks whose families relocated to Los Angeles (among other places) during the great migration following WWII. It's use was so prevalent, I've picked it up and still use it every now and then. If you didn't know I worked many FD assignments down there, so I had a lot of time to be exposed to the term, especially while I was working as a paramedic there. "Done fell out" or "fell out" what what we heard from the citizens. On the Department, we just shortened it to "DFO'd" to describe when it happened to someone. Back to your regularly scheduled programming. Most of that glass is from vases and broken scraps from the glass blowers Dave. The glass blower in Atlanta let me haul off like a ton of scrap and is sitting on the back 40 so to speak. No need to look for more stock. The patterns are their patterns, most are beyond my skill ability and can only be created by the blowing process which makes them unique compared to what the average basement glass artist can do. I can't say that 'tacky' is southern but do hear the term often from older southern country folks(ladies(elderly southern magnolias ) mostly). Almost always in an amusing derogatory manner. 'fell off' is another old term older southern folks use, this mean that you lost weight. There is one single reference to 'fell out' in the Bible having to do with Peter's prison shackles falling off. 'fell out'/'done fell out' may be a derivative usually referring to someone losing something, a common expression in the south. It gets the job done lol ! Maybe in the paramedic field it referred to loosing life or limb. Which leads to the source of many Black terms that are also derived from their dependence on the Bible during their difficult slavery years, i.e., look at Bible based lyrics of early Black jazz/blue musicians, many of these lyrics copied/used in rock n roll music perhaps because the average rock n roller never had seen hard times like these poor black musicians. All interesting the origins of American slang/sayings.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2024 13:11:46 GMT -5
vegasjames , what if I lied and said I found these as tektites around the Carolina Bays You have to know those bays are ice impacts Then would have to say that you were visiting another planet also with a place called Carolina Bays. Lol, maybe one day the great minds will figure it out James. They are sitting there trying to tell us something.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 29, 2024 7:51:26 GMT -5
Lazy lazy lazy. The tumbler did all the shaping Patty. Without knowing the temperature 'recipe' for all these different types of glass I could not 'melt' these into blobs before tumbling. If heat recipe is known you simply melt them into cab shapes and reduce tumble time greatly. If not known they may crack and be unstable. Odd thing about glass, if you put broken chunks (say 3/4" chunks like road gravel on the shelf)they melt to a 1/4" thick cab everytime. It is a characteristic of glass to melt to 1/4" thick at it's specified melting temp. Interesting Jim.
Obviously, your tumbling experience pays off ! When you have melted them, does the glass gloss over or do you still have to vibe it for polish ?
Sounds like you're still having to tumble. My brain would have guessed they would gloss, like enamel does.
Patty
If the heat schedule is known and the glass is good fusing glass it will cool with a high polish with no tumbling. In my case I have to tumble most of what is melted. The tumbling allows a whole new angle to glass fusing small stuff like this.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 29, 2024 0:42:30 GMT -5
vegasjames, what if I lied and said I found these as tektites around the Carolina Bays You have to know those bays are ice impacts
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Post by jamesp on Feb 29, 2024 0:37:18 GMT -5
This material is definitely nice! Perhaps the southern colloquial term "tacky" could be used as a fair adjective Victor. As a kid I remember when a flashy colorfully dressed attractive lady would walk by and turn Dad's head Mom(from small town Florida) would in a jealous reply say "she's so tacky" lol. I used to fall out laughing until Dad gave me a you-will-pay look.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 29, 2024 0:29:40 GMT -5
Wowzers, those came out great!!! They are clear as can be and not frosted at all Great job Bill Long time no see, hope all is well with you Bill. Thick sugar slurry and a very powerful vibe kept the frost away ! Odd, the vibe tub is homemade from steel, no rubber/plastic. The glass vibes against hard steel. Testimony to protective ability of thicker slurry. Makes one wonder if a very powerful vibe with very thick slurry is the key to tumble polishing softies like calcite and fluorite. Actually that is the answer I was told, Chinese made industrial vibes are powerful and are used to vibe soft rocks in very thick protective slurry. I was told this by an owner of a big tumbling operation in Madagascar.
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