Daily Archives: December 6, 2010
Unless you really know what you are doing stay off the ice!
The following is a fictionalized version of a true story recently told to me by two of the people involved. All the names of those still living have been changed. Please do not let this happen to you.
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Holy Mother of Mary, it’s Jesus in a Rock!
Lamont Ekker experienced what some people might consider a Thanksgiving miracle when he cut through a 15-pound chunk of sandstone at his Torrey rock shop last week.
Ekker cuts and polishes rocks at his shop, Jurassic Rocks, to expose interesting internal patterns and striations. Three days before Thanksgiving, he was “baking” in his oven some rocks he picked up that day in a quarry near Teasdale in southern Utah. The heat causes the iron in the yellow sandstone to oxidize, turning it a brilliant orangish red.
“When I took those pieces out of the oven, I saw this one had turned into what it is,”
Hat Tip: H. Harpending
Should I have saved this for this?