Except for the occasional construction zones, getting to Minnesota was uneventful. We are camping in one of my buddies cemetery. I could make a joke or two, but I’ll keep my mouth shut on the campsite. We are 5 minutes from the Celebration of Agates Show at the Hopkins High School. Seminars and set up are today, and we are looking forward to it.
We got in yesterday and parked between a couple trucks that occasionally work the gravel pit on the property. I’ll say more about that later.
Two of the three and a half buckets of Lakers.
Fred, my friend that owns the cemetery, had saved three 5 gallon buckets of Lake Superior Agates and other assorted glacial rocks from the aforementioned gravel pit.
I'm just FORCING myself to sort these Lakers.
I spent a few hours sorting and so far I have one 5 gallon pail of agates and one bucket of leaverites; Nice rocks, but space limits me to the cream of the crop. One bucket to go yet. SO depressing having to sort all these agates. Ha! ha!
Later on we walked up to the small gravel pit where a couple large piles of roof rocks were stored, and guess what. It started raining and dampened the rocks. We had fun looking for Lakers and found a few. How good is this for a day? Can today be any better? Stand by and see.
I never got a chance to post this on Wednesday, so let’s continue. We attended several interesting seminars today and perhaps I will expand on this in the future. I am in a hurry tonight (Thursday). We just ate and have to run back for some last minute set up at the Celebration of Agates.
When we went back to the RV, I see there is another half bucket of agates to sort through, so I have to sort 1 1/2 buckets tonight. What stress I am under (NOT)! The big show gets underway tomorrow at noon.