Hi, granny!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Yeah, I know. Don’t want wine and roses unless it’s a grape arbor and a rose bush. At least that’s what I tell my husband!
Busy day today...shopping...freeping...yard work...washing clothes...cooking, and more freeping.
Just when I think I’ve caught up reading this thread I’m even more behind than ever!
Went with my mom to my dad’s grave site today and promised him we’d somehow turn this country around.
Do I remember correctly that you are 3/4 Cherokee? If you are did you ever make any turquoise jewelry? I have some beautiful bracelets and rings that a Navajo Indian lady made for me almost 30 years ago. She said the stones came from the Bisbee mine. She was a real artist. Tried to find her @15 years ago, but she had died.
Hopefully spring will be here soon although it’s still really cool here.
Take care!
You have had a day of it, and a Happy Valentines day to you, you can have that tomorrow, forget today, we can have 2 of 14 if we want to do so.
Why not I had 2 fridays, got up Thursday, did my medicine act and decided that Scott would have to go and pick up the prescriptions, today [friday,] the one day off that he could do
so. So I left a frantic message on his answering machine.
Our local drugstore is not open on weekends.
After A cup of coffee, I decided that it was indeed Thursday and about 6 pm, here was Scott, he got the message, was one of his early days, so he got the prescriptions and now that worry is off my head.
Going to the cemetery of a fine man like your father had to be, with all the current politics, is upsetting for anyone.
LOL, When I finally got a chance to make a ring from scratch, I set the 2 inch oblong/oval polished Alaskan Jade, that had been a gift to me 20 years ago, by a customer who went on vacation and wouldn’t take me with him...[joking], so he brought me the piece of Jade, ready to set, as he knew Bill and I were getting excited about stones.
Bill did several of the turquoise rings and other stones we found, traded for and a couple bought for their beauty.
We had a small turquoise pocket mine for a few years and it was pale, but when I wore it, the stone took on a color that was mine alone......I suspect it was the lanolin in the Avon
Vita Moist body lotion that i used every day.
I always hate to hear that another of the real Navajo silversmiths have died, there are so few of them and their young don’t want the old ways either.
Roses and a grape arbor, that sounds good to me.
I have some of the Bisbee turquoise, but it has been treated.
The spiderweb turquoise, came from a mine about 15 miles north of me, the Duval mining site.