Good eating. The cat that is.I fed the neighbors cat......I call him 'Opie'
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Life is good, isn't it?Knee bends this AM
Fast walk in the hills
Enjoying back deck sunny 68*
Going to look at Christmas lights in an hour
Vaping some Headband 99
We parted with our flock of parakeets today.not mine
We have chicks.
Ivory has laid her clutch in a log/nest. Lucky, the papa, feeds her and guards over the entrance.
It is interesting to watch as Mustard "babysits" tending the eggs while Ivory is out for water and a stretch.
I hope it is fewer than more. Research indicates 2 to 6 eggs is average.
I have seen one featherless pink chick so far today.
We are excited for this first but are not likely to promote future hatchings.
Lucky is male, green and yellow in color. Ivory is ivory in color with no other coloring.
What do you do in this situation? Some revard for the customer?It doesn't always go as planned. It's been a tough week for me.
Sometimes the really fragile gem doesn't make it. I thought I'd cleared enough of a pocket for the shape of the pavilion on this tanzanite. I pushed a little too hard getting the prongs to make better contact and it broke at two corners on the pavilion side down to the keel.
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She had taken her stones to a few other high end jewelers in town and was rejected. She was made aware by several professionals that tanzanite is extremely fragile and the risk is high. In this situation, we are having our lapidarist recut the stone and we will make a new ring mounting for the new shape and size. Often this sort of thing is client risk on paper, and jeweler risk in practice.... and the jeweler eats the value of the stone to source a replacement. It's why jeweler's insurance exists.What do you do in this situation? Some revard for the customer?