Is this the house you were thinking of buying? If I remember correctly, the owners were being a bit of a pain?
Gorgeous views!
We bought the house from a bank about 10 years ago. It had been foreclosed in the middle of a remodeling project and was a complete disaster.
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Love those little toesies!
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My latest paint by number, although it’s actually just a small white bas relief plaque with an illustrated instruction sheet, no lines or numbers. Fast and fun.
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Great day to be at the beach - tourists are gone and students are in school. Lots of room for retirees and shore birds.
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More rocks I’ve tumbled and polished this summer. These are Mexican Lace agates and one red jasper. I’ve collected a few on my own this summer, but few tumbled well. I bought these raw from a rock shop. They looked like crushed gray rock before tumbling.
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I love these so much! How long does it take? What kind of tumbler do you use? Is it noisy?
Thank you!
I have two types of tumblers, rotary (Lortone and a cheap Harbor Freight) and vibratory (Ray Tech). They both advise to go through 4 different stages with four different grits, from coarse to very fine. It’s usually about a week or more at each stage with the rotary. The vibe is a lot quicker, usually just a day per stage, but requires more attention (it requires just a little water, so you have to check every few hours to add more) and isn’t good at reshaping rocks.
A lot of rockhounds will use a rotary for the first stage to smooth out rough and weirdly shaped rocks , then switch to a vibe for the last three stages which saves a ton of time!
It’s not very noisy IMO. I tumble in my garage, but I don’t think it would bother me if I moved indoors to perhaps our sunroom. It can get a bit messy as the water and grit inside the barrels turns to sludge, and the rocks have to be rinsed well between stages. The water and sludge has to be dumped outdoors as it will clog pipes.
I enjoy it more than I thought I would. I’m very impatient, so I thought I’d hate to wait so long, but I don’t mind, especially when the rocks turn out well. I just put my rocks in glass containers to display mostly, but I have made a few rustic pendants. I got a dremel so that I can shape the rocks better and hope to refine my skills to make prettier pendants.
There’s a guy on YouTube, Michigan Rocks, who has a lot of info about the process.
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Oh, thank you! Great info.
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Fabulous Maine weather today, low 70’s, light breeze, clear blue skies. DH and I decided to take off and enjoy a day near the water. We drove to Bath where we toured the Maine Maritime Museum and were awed by the enormity of the nearby historic Bath Iron Works where many of our Navy’s carriers and destroyers were built.
Next, we drove down into the coastal lace of Georgetown Island where we enjoyed a picnic lunch of lobster on the dock of Five Islands Lobster Company.
Then, we stopped in Brunswick on the way home to walk around the Bowdoin campus sipping iced coffees and wishing we were undergrads again. All in all, a most perfect day.
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Looks like you had a GLORIOUS day!
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Just a funny picture this morning. Every time I run by here, I swear this looks like Chewbacca to me and cracks me up
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