flameryder.bsky.social
Amature mineral collector for 70 years. I specialize in micro minerals and photography of them. Wife and I are also involved with llamas and we each own one. We show them at local county fairs and several ILR sanctioned shows around Washington and Oregon
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Our son in law has a Ford F350. The five in their family plus my wife and I do llama shows around the Pacific Northwest. They have a 10 foot cab over camper plus a 3 horse 0lus tack room trailer for hauling up to 8 llama. His commuter is a 20+ year old Toyota 4x4 pickup 1/2 the size of todays.
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He has his own version of the Constitution written with his sharpie.
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I am across Puget Sound from Seattle. Per today's Kitsap Sun, we are already short 10 inches of rain for years to date.
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My wife and I visited Manzanar a number of years ago. She thought I was crazy turning off 395 to visit. She had not heard of it growing up in Alabama. I learned of it in high school. Met an elderly Japanese gentleman who had been interned there. We had a long conversation with him.
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The only negative I have with Jimmy Carter is his visit to Pearl Harbor which caused a delay our return to port after a 7 month deployment. I wish he had a second term.
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Send the Marines to separate them.
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It is imperative that articles of impeachment be filed immediately against Noem. This needs to be on record even though it is unlikely to pass the House.
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The only liberation that needs to occur, is the liberation of this country from the GOP/MAGA folks that are hell bent on establishing a dictatorship and revoking all our rights.
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As long as this incompetent idiot and his equally incompetent associates are in charge, there will never be trust in this compromised organization.
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And all those who did not vote
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And pay them minimum wage with prior assets frozen while in Congress.
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He should get a real job where they only schedule you for fewer hours than needed for health coverage. Another good job for him would be doing the work of the agricultural workers being deported.
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Wish I still had a reel to reel tape deck and the 6 10 inch reels of county music I recorded between 1968 and 1971. I was stationed on USS Kitty Hawk, and the missile house I worked in had a good sound system. The guys all shared their music so we could record off off cassettes.
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Topaz
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Last weekend, onr way to Prineville, Oregon for a llama show, we stopped Trillium Lake for lunch. It was aptly named as the woods were full of trillium accented with yellow violets. This was just east of Mount Hood off of Highway 26.
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The nation needs to come to the realization that this administration is the most incompetent this nation has ever had.
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They make $174,000 per year plus benefits.
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Haven't planted ours yet.
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90% tax on inherited weath
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Having chaperone a grade school ski bus for several, I can say our Friday was better even though it involved a 7 hour drive to Prineville, Oregon. We are here for The Central Oregon Llama Festival. Glad to have an indoor arena as temps in low 50's with Sunday low of 31.
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The large one on the right us a llama, not alpaca. I own a llama as does my wife.
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After I retired from the Navy, I spent 20 years at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. I would have to say that reading and writing skills haven't improved. I took a writing class at a local CC. The instructor asked if folks knew how to diagram sentences, I was the only one. I graduated HS in 1965.
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When I see MSH, I always read it as Mont Saint-Hilaire, not Mount Saint Helens. I am an avid mineral collector, and the Poudrette Quarry at Mont Saint-Hilaire is my favorite locality.
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I served in the US Navy from September 1966 through July 1987. I observed a marked decline in writing and reading abilities during that time. I was enlisted, not officer. The decline was not confined to the enlisted ranks, but officer ranks as well.
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It was supposed to be .0001, not .000
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The stacked image is slightly smaller than the 6960 pixel width of a full single frame. 5X objective gives a 4 mm FOV, and the 10X gives a 2 mm FOV. I have cropped images to .7 mm and had reasonable quality image.
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The camera is mounted on a Stack Shot rail. It can step as small as .000 mm. I use .03 mm steps for the 5X Mitutoyo M plan apo objective and .015 mm steps for the 10X objective. There is a perspective change between images, but Helicon Focus compensates for this.
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Yes
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I spent over an hour this evening watching it on YouTube. It is more impressive watching on the big screen TV than on my phone or tablet.
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We visited in mid November 2019 on our way home from the New Mexico Mineral Symposium. Cold at night but pleasant during the day. Well worth a trip.
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I am one of the folks that believe there is no such thing as too much garlic. I like garlic pickled with habenaro peppers.
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The only explanation is that the billionaires want to be even more billions at the expense of the rest of us.
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If kids can only 3 dolls and 5 pencils, than the maximum wealth any American can amass must be no more than 3-5 million dollars.
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Seattle Seahawks player, Dan Dornik, took med school classes during his playing career. After football he completed his degree to become a doctor.
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Since Florida is prone to sinkholes opening randomly, it would be great of one swallowed all it.
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A good friend of mine played American Legion ball. He pitched a no hitter, walked one, and lost 9-0 on errors.
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RFKjr should be 100% as he is totally unqualified for his job.
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The lies keep getting more grotesque
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One of our granddaughters was interested in geo science specializing in mineralogy. She is now planning on a major in photography and incorporate her love of minerals in photography. She got her interest from me and my 10,000 plus specimens, mostly micros.
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The only thing he gets highest marks in is the inability to tell the truth.
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They gave us 3 entries, so we filled one out for her. We knew the estimated travel time and bracketed our best guess. Daughter had the right one.
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In 1978, we took a nonstop flight from Honolulu to Chicago with our 11-month-old daughter. The plane was a 747 that had at most, 100 passengers. They had a contest to guess what time we would hit the halfway point. The prize was a bottle of wine which our daughter won and we enjoyed.