Yes it is glad you are getting back to feeling better.
This is great news Mac. So glad to hear you are doing much better. Welcome back!!!
Went to Superior Az today. Walked a couple miles into an rock formation that held Apache tears.
Fact: the tears are obsidian glass particles blown from a volcanic explosion that gathered some ash while molten, hardening on their decent and being buried in the ash.
One just has to find the right ash deposits to find the tears.
Why are they called tears?
Truth: The American Calvary chased an Apache war party into a canyon boxing them in. The Apache didn’t want to be captured so they rode their horses over a cliff to commit suicide.
Legend: According to legend, when the Apache tribe women found out they had lost their husbands, fathers and sons in a tragic way, they cried day and night for a month or more. Their tears, upon falling on the ground, formed the oval-shaped crystals now known as the apache tears.
For this reason, ancient lore believed that those who carry or own a piece of this stone should never need to cry again since the apache tribe women cried enough tears for all those who mourn.
It is often used as a rubbing stone or during meditation. Apache tears are also fashioned into pieces of jewelry such as pendants, bracelets, beads, rings and earrings, not only for fashion but to also benefit from its metaphysical energy. This is why the apache tears are best known for their metaphysical use.
That’s the legend.
The material covering the tears is once again volcanic ash.
it’s called perlite.
It’s mined around here for two reasons. One is put into potting soil to help it retain moisture.
The main buyer Is Budweiser, used to filter the water for their beer.
Fact: the tears are obsidian glass particles blown from a volcanic explosion that gathered some ash while molten, hardening on their decent and being buried in the ash.
One just has to find the right ash deposits to find the tears.
Why are they called tears?
Truth: The American Calvary chased an Apache war party into a canyon boxing them in. The Apache didn’t want to be captured so they rode their horses over a cliff to commit suicide.
Legend: According to legend, when the Apache tribe women found out they had lost their husbands, fathers and sons in a tragic way, they cried day and night for a month or more. Their tears, upon falling on the ground, formed the oval-shaped crystals now known as the apache tears.
For this reason, ancient lore believed that those who carry or own a piece of this stone should never need to cry again since the apache tribe women cried enough tears for all those who mourn.
It is often used as a rubbing stone or during meditation. Apache tears are also fashioned into pieces of jewelry such as pendants, bracelets, beads, rings and earrings, not only for fashion but to also benefit from its metaphysical energy. This is why the apache tears are best known for their metaphysical use.
That’s the legend.
The material covering the tears is once again volcanic ash.
it’s called perlite.
It’s mined around here for two reasons. One is put into potting soil to help it retain moisture.
The main buyer Is Budweiser, used to filter the water for their beer.
Good morning folks.
Good morning, Everyone.
I feel the need to comment on something that happened to me last night with the hope that others here are VERY CAREFUL when they use the delete functions.
I had noticed that I had some duplicate images in two different places on my Smugmug site, so I decided that I needed to delete one of them. However, when I did so, the ENTIRE folder for Colorado images had disappeared. In a panicked mode, I got to searching through different areas of the Smugmug site and ran across one page that had a "Trash" folder. I clicked on that and there were all those photos. However, there was a circle visible on each image and when I clicked on a few of them, a button came up that said "Restore."
So, I started going through all those photos from the top of the page to the bottom and selected every one of them and then hit "Restore." It took a while, but as near as I can tell, all the photos are back where they should be and under the correct folder and gallery thumbnails. While working through all those photos, I REALLY hoped that they would be restored back into the correct folders.
I was in panic mode throughout the whole process. When I clicked all of the images, there was over 11,800 of them in the Colorado folder. That makes up more than a fifth of the photos on the whole website. I would have really hated to have to do all that from scratch.
SO, anytime anyone wants to delete, be sure and double or triple check that one is deleting the right stuff.
I feel the need to comment on something that happened to me last night with the hope that others here are VERY CAREFUL when they use the delete functions.
I had noticed that I had some duplicate images in two different places on my Smugmug site, so I decided that I needed to delete one of them. However, when I did so, the ENTIRE folder for Colorado images had disappeared. In a panicked mode, I got to searching through different areas of the Smugmug site and ran across one page that had a "Trash" folder. I clicked on that and there were all those photos. However, there was a circle visible on each image and when I clicked on a few of them, a button came up that said "Restore."
So, I started going through all those photos from the top of the page to the bottom and selected every one of them and then hit "Restore." It took a while, but as near as I can tell, all the photos are back where they should be and under the correct folder and gallery thumbnails. While working through all those photos, I REALLY hoped that they would be restored back into the correct folders.
I was in panic mode throughout the whole process. When I clicked all of the images, there was over 11,800 of them in the Colorado folder. That makes up more than a fifth of the photos on the whole website. I would have really hated to have to do all that from scratch.
SO, anytime anyone wants to delete, be sure and double or triple check that one is deleting the right stuff.
Whew!!!
Glad you were able to find them and restore them Terry. That is a scary feeling. Been there.
Glad you were able to find them and restore them Terry. That is a scary feeling. Been there.
Morning fellas! Slept in a little today. Well as long as the dogs would let me. I swear I might as well have a houseful of kids. 
Hmmmm, maybe not. Lol
Went to Sam's and the grocery store yesterday. I swear prices have gone up and packages have gotten smaller every time I go out. I have a feeling it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I have this urge to turn the entire front yard into a garden.
Grumpy is a little resistant but I'll wear him down. 
(It's what we wives do. 
)
Whatever you do today make it a good one!
Hmmmm, maybe not. LolWent to Sam's and the grocery store yesterday. I swear prices have gone up and packages have gotten smaller every time I go out. I have a feeling it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I have this urge to turn the entire front yard into a garden.
Grumpy is a little resistant but I'll wear him down. (It's what we wives do. )Whatever you do today make it a good one!
Good morning folks. Heading up to the lake house tonight after work. Have a good one.
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