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ROY X CONE contest, 1.1.11 - 2.1.12


Paul T

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Here's a little quick and dirty of the wedding locale. Most pictures are on other peoples cameras right now, but I'll slip these in before this next overtime week.

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Why yes, we did get married at a chocolate factory. Of course if we have a son, he gets to be named Augustus Gloop.

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Always a good guy to have around.

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The actual ceremony was out back in a reproduction of a 12th century chapel in the Swiss Alps dedicated to fallen climbers.

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The mrs may watch alot of Cake Boss, but we kept things itty-bitty with this, and we almost went without a cake at all. This was two days later. We're not real sugar fiends.

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A chance to post some RxC updates. I feel like I am competing with ThisSunday with the MF jacket.

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Oh, and congrats Joseph! Welcome to the club!

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I was back out on Antelope Island State Park today, along with a group of folks who have participated in my classes. I like to have a monthly field day to get back together again and share stories and ideas. It was the perfect autumn day, 50F and sunny.

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We spent a fair amount of time exploring down on the shore of Great Salt Lake. I briefly considered a salt lake wash on the Roys, until I remembered how chilly it was. The salinity of GSL is about 15%, which is about 4X as salty as sea water.

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Beware of roaming bison!

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OK, so my iPhone can do a lot , but it apparently cannot photograph swimming brine shrimp very well. It's a sea monkey!

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When water temperatures drop this time of year, brine shrimp shift from giving birth to live young to producing cysts- hard-shelled eggs that can not only survive the winter, but hundreds of years in the muck. Cysts often float on the surface of the water, where they are harvested by companies that sell them to the aquaculture trade, primarily to feed prawns. This little glob in my hand probably contains several thousand cysts.

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The cool thing about the sand on the island is that it is formed much like a pearl is formed in an oyster shell. A little nucleus (brine shrimp poop) floats around in the water and concentric layers of calcium carbonate accumulate around it. As a result, we have little pearls of sand.

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We headed back down to the old ranch house on the island, which is the oldest building in Utah on its original foundation.

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I tried to crank the tunes, but she wasn't working!

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On the way back up the island, we had to nudge some bison out of the road with our cars.

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We had to stop and check out the banded gneiss outcrops. Oddly enough, this is one of the oldest rocks in Utah, but it sits atop younger rock layers. It's all from the old thrust faults, which pushed old layers on top of newer, and then the layers on top of the old layer eroded down.

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Roys on three Billion year old rocks. Top that!

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The banding on the rocks was mesmerizing.

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The sun sets early these days, so it's time to head home!

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A piece of scrap camel leather from dkatz!

Thanks mate :)

Trimmed, stretched and had some oils worked in...

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It has the characteristic 3 hair follicle arrangement in a straight line, but there're no wool follicles on this one.

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Hi folks, hope you're all well, sorry, I've been away in a writing bunker.

Great to see Sweapea and Ray here! Will post pics when I have a mo.

IN the meantime, please check out my sig - the market blog I mentioned a few months ago is now up and running. And I've started to pull over a fair bit of my SuFu stuff on to my own blog, Loomstate. Just trying to stem the flow of request for info on 1947 Levi's. My PMs seem to stand at 447 unread, I'm not sure I'll get back to everyone, whether they're real or a figment of the SuFu imagination.

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^ a picture worth a thoudsand words markus! :D

Some out-takes from cottage country

So i edited through some more shots from cottage country…

A random pic from trail biking

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One of the things I love about autumn is the colours - lots of vibrant green juxtaposed with the orange tones

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We'll have to take care of this when winter sets in…

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We had a bumper crop of young pine trees

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We decided to relocate some of them to areas that needed more erosion control

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Feels good

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continued..

While we were digging, we unearthed this little guy. At first we thought he was dead, but no - just asleep, and grumpy to be awakened

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We discovered tons of these seed pods

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Snow??

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Nah, Just us having some fun!

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Pups had a great time too :)

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Gorgeous photos, riff... what a wonderful time of year this is.

Hi Ran, I see you've found loomstate.co.uk - thanks v much for the comments! I've actually had an insane amout of traffic on the RRL story.

The market site is marketpeople.org

I could spend 15 minutes working out how to do links on the new SuFu but maybe life is too short.

I shall try some photos for the hell of it. I've rediscovered TriX, too...

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