March 25, 2010

Thursday 25~~~~~The four of us drove to Queen Valley today where we visited a campground that had a lapidary shop with all the tools and equipment to make beautiful gem stones. There were 4 or 5 people working on their stones in different stages. We met a man from Salem Oregon who showed us all the various steps to finding, cutting and all the steps required to the final finishing of a stone. It almost made me want to join the class and start doing that along with my writing, jewelry making, photography, and trying to keep up with Kent!!!!! The stones and gems they made from them was unbelievable and worth a lot of money. I think from now on when we go places We'll look for different rocks. From there we drove to an old mining town with all old buildings (pictures) with shops in them and mine tours and the works. It was called "Goldfield Mining town". Kent liked the horse that pulled a buggy that took tourists around town. (picture) We headed home from here, as Mel and Linda had a dinner engagement to go to and I had my Thursday night Whist game at the club house. Kent came over and watched us play one hand while he ate a brownie that one of the ladies brought. He said he wasn't interested in learning another card game. LOL Kent has really been a trouper about playing cards, he never played any cards when we met and married and he plays them all the time now, even when it is just the two of us (Poker??????).