Oh, my heart :( There's no way I can keep them for more than a few weeks, enough time to get bigger so they can maybe fend for themselves successfully. At which point, I'll be so attached that I'll be wanting to send them off with little backpacks full of snacks :(

As I was typing about jewery, it occurred to me that nobody has brought me any culled rattlesnakes this year. Last year, I was making a bracelet nearly every week, and a bunch of bookmarks at Christmas time. I have 2 skins left from that chaos. One on which the diamond pattern makes perfectly shaped hearts, and one long enough for a hatband... but my hatband inquirer disappeared before we could make that happen. Maybe I should just make it into more bracelets? I don't know.

I took my first batch of rocks out of the tumbler today. They're pretty shiny. I don't known if it could have gone any better on a first attempt. This one is my favorite. I managed to get a picture that nicely shows the epidote inside of the quartz. There are a few of these, but this one is beautiful to me... The red and yellow jasper is pretty, too. I want to spend time over the winter to learn jewery making. I don't wear jewerly but it seems like a logical addition to my hypothetical online rock shop. I'm still unsure of a style. Wire wrapping is kind of gaudy to me, drawing attention away from the stones. Round 2 in the tumbler has to wait a couple weeks. I need to order a motherboard battery for this cheap, old but basically unused laptop that I have, so that I can use it to try this livestream idea (livestream rock and roll? 😅). But I've been busy gardening, road tripping, camping, working, Nostr-ing, and catching wild animals. I'll be really happy to see snow this year.

Well... hmmm

@@average_gary I wanted to check in and see how things are going with your Pyramid relay? Have you had any other difficulties since the overabundance of unintended posts from members? Or features/options that you would like to see? There's a chat group for this stuff, so we can get problems solved, help each other troubleshoot, and improve the experience overall:

Nostrord

Feel free to stop in. You might have a valuable perspective.

There it is. G'morning.

Apparently, this is how I use Nostr hahaha

Nostr Study Group will be open, Tues 1pm UTC. That will be my only scheduled session this week, as I will be off doing this and some other stuff and probably not online much or often... View quoted note → If anyone I've been working with on community stuff has burning questions or something going on this week that they want to discuss, please message me today or stop by NSG tomorrow.

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I'll return to normal life by the weekend, so long as I'm not enchanted by a wood nymph or fall off a cliff or something, so next week will be business as usual.

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