[Rockhounds] Garza update

[Mark Easterbrook]

All,

Sorry for the message going out to this list as below.  This was not
intended.  Please disregard.

Mark

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From: Mark Easterbrook [mailto:asgardsgc at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 6:38 PM
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Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Garza update

Hi Alan,

Please tell Steve and Dee I said "hello and everything is well with me."  I
hate wearing masks.  They fog up my glasses.  I am still working from home,
now more than 6 months.  I only go out when I need to do so.  Looking
forward to hearing about your collecting trips during your vacation.  I
would like to see a photo of the Cave in Rock fluorite you mentioned.  Did
you and Debbie go to St. Louis for vacation?  

Do you remember when I had a friend named Debbie Martin back in the 2000s
and we dated for a time?  She was a big Stargate-SG1 fan and was bipolar
(she refused to take her medications for it).  I had not spoken to her in
probably 13 to 14 years.  I received a letter from a probate law firm last
month.  Apparently, Debbie died at the end of last June of natural causes
and she had named me a beneficiary of her retirement account ($1,000).
Needless to say I was very surprised because we parted on less than amicable
terms years ago though she still lived in the area in the same house.  I am
not certain when I would receive the benefit minus taxes of course (I sent
in the required paperwork early last week).  But, it is rather timely with
the unexpected car repair expense being the new wheel I had to buy.

Take Care,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Goldstein
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 2:04 PM
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Subject: [Rockhounds] Garza update

Steve and Dee say, "Hello. Everything's good." They haven't left their
homestead is early March.

Steve has been more actively identifying minerals with a microscope the last
month or so. We had a couple of collectors over yesterday, one an ex-New
Englander going bonkers over the large amount of Strickland Quarry and
obscure New England localities. I was able to get a number of specimens or
localities while Steve was outside in the sunshine and will make a new list
which I will post as an ad. It will take some time to go through the
thousand+ specimens I brought home over the last 2 days.

I've mentioned the randomness in packing he did when he moved to his current
location a dozen or so years ago. Yesterday, I found a large box labeled
"Fossils & Misc." on  a top shelve. Intrigued, and not wishing to hurt
myself, I cut open the box from the side. The weight was from a half dozen
giant fossil clams (double-fist-sized) from who knows where. Probably
Miocene to Pliocene age. In the middle was a plastic cookie box stuffed with
"autunite" from the Ruggles Mine, Grafton Co., NH. With a UV flashlight
inside the garage with the lights on, the specimens fluoresced like a good
piece of willemite from Franklin, NJ!

I'm taking my extended vacation, and it will include some collecting trips
in the area and cleaning and labeling Garza minerals. I know I'll find more
interesting specimens. I already found a beautiful Cave in Rock fluorite
among crappy rocks. Luckily everything was well-wrapped. Dee had threatened
to empty the garage as road rock, but I've been able to salvage and help
sell thousands of specimens that were too nice (and historically important)
for the driveway. The dregs I'm dumping on the mineral collecting piles at
the Falls of the Ohio State Park where others are having fun digging and
making their own discoveries.

Regards,
Alan G.
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