Owens Lake and rocks
Roads flooded everywhere out here. I walked through and scouted shallow path for my brother to drive
We went up the back of haystack knob to look for amazonite. We found some and I found a smoky quartz point!
I really like this little quartz
Cool and weird
We've got a slight delay in today's plans
Back on the road and I found a ten-banded June beetle
Travertine springs
Way up here
We're out here hunting obsidian nodules
Walking on broken glass and finding tons of mahogany obsidian nodules and needles
Lonely forest road
I've wanted to see one of these beehive burners for a long time. Second pic with me for scale
Cartoon villains love this machine
Eugene, Oregon
Having a big hot dog and a spaghett
I found a cow bone
The Eugene Goodwill is crazy. I want that vectorscope so bad
@MLE_online yep, gotta keep that color CRT calibrated.
@MLE_online (nails still immaculate I note)
@MLE_online This is the content I'm here for
@MLE_online buddy knows how to live
@MLE_online You *must* have ice cream at Prince Pucklers!
@emeb tell me more!
@MLE_online It's an institution in Eugene - been around since the 70s and has great flavors made on-site. Located near the University at the corner of 19th and Agate. Open till 11PM. We go there every time we visit, even in winter :)
@emeb we'll try to get there! We tried last night, but Google maps directed us to their offices instead of their shop
@MLE_online All it needs is an ACME stencil.
@MLE_online
* Ragtime piano intensifies *
@MLE_online
I remember the Rocky and Bullwinkle show with Dudley Do-Right. He was always rescuing Nell from the clutches of Snidely Whiplash. Sometimes she was tied to a log headed for the spinning blade of the sawmill.
@MLE_online
They do. But only if the conveyor belt was really long and slow 😉
@MLE_online what are the stones used for?
@coolo anything you would use obsidian for

@MLE_online omg this whole thread is vacation goals!

your nails look like they’ve survived?

@MLE_online Nice! Have you ever gone Geode hunting? Superior AZ is good for that.
@HackAWeek yes! There's a bit of that in Oregon. It's fun
@MLE_online images: 1. hand holding a palm-size piece of glassy rock, 2. the rock reversed, it is rounded and rough like an ordinary stone
@MLE_online was up here, but am now down again
@MLE_online I hope that pool is known as Pesto Panini Drip.
@MLE_online cool ring. Self made?
@khenderick no, I found it at a thrift store a long time ago
@MLE_online
Wait, does that mean its a ten-banded july beetle now?
@MLE_online this one looks like it's got some ancient alien spaceship lore
@MLE_online you're all oh just got my nails done and now I'm going rockhounding and gonna mess them up and then you post a great pic like this.
@MLE_online looks like one of the members of KISS is trapped in there.
@KennySpade a member of kiss whose mom ate California corn lily while he was in the womb
@MLE_online what is up with that third one, the bisected one?