Purple Rock !

Well I made the trip in the ice and snow to my mail box this morning.  And I found a purple Rock all the way from Wheaton Labs.  I've been hearing rumors about a pesky little purple dragon with a hammer running about the place.  Sooooo it must have been true.  My newest prized possession is warming near the rocket heater and I've been thinking about what wood I would make a base for it out of.

What do you guys think??  Crystal likes to be with Cedar.  I'm not sure about purple rocks.

Peace/Heddwch

What, this one?

I'm not sure that I could give testimony regarding the dragon's identification, but that kinda sorta looks like the one in the photos!!

Peace/Heddwch

Well my Roxa showed up here looking highly suspicious and tried to sneak a hammer back into Austin's tool cupboard.~

And then I was sent this...



I don't think we know the whole story yet, but it seems like she flew out to Montana and made friends with Chapito and they got up to all sorts of mischief up at the labs, and down at basecamp. I think Paul took her in hand after a while and took her indoors where she helped him bake cookies. If I'm understanding the story correctly...

Deane Adams wrote: I've been thinking about what wood I would make a base for it out of.

What do you guys think??  Crystal likes to be with Cedar.  I'm not sure about purple rocks.

Hmmm. I'd usually recommend going out for a walk and see what 'speaks' to you. But I understand it's pretty icy and snowed under where you are. Maybe there's a suitable bit of wood lurking near the rocket heater that would be happier being a base rather than turned into rocket fuel? What sort of wood are you burning?

You have any alder?

Sorry I have no alder wood.  I'm mostly burning oak in the rocket stove.  I still have on hand some outstanding cherry burl and some bird's eye maple.

I still don't know what type of cookies I got but they are veryyyyy good !!!

Peace/Heddwch

I asked Roxa about the cookie mix and she said something about perlite with clay, but I think she was mixing up with the recipe for insulating around the core of the rocket mass heater.



In fact, I suspect that's where the exercise started. I think she ended up in the Fisher Price house in the fond belief she would behave herself better in there and not get up to so much mischief, and then wanted to play with Paul's rocket mass heater, which is a J-tube and very different to our one and she wanted to see if there was a dragon inside. And I think they ended up talking about mixing up cookie dough insulation, only with real cookie dough. I suspect you're going to have to ask Paul. Not sure if he'll admit to dragons, but Roxa is being very cagey about how the cookies got themselves cooked. I suspect she may have helped...

I think this is them...



And I guess your rock is one of those to the right of the cookies?  

I think the two smaller cookies were for Roxa and Chapito. I may be wrong though...

As for which wood to use, you mentioned cherry - Roxa of course lives in the cherry capital of Portugal, and her mother is Serra da Gardunha, though no-one is quite sure if she is named after the mountain range or vice versa, which is where the very best of the cherries are grown.

Well the burl wood I have is not from a Fundao tree, but I think it will make a nice base.  This rock that is becoming my Rock is sitting in a somewhat upright stance on its broken edge among my house plants.
I think I saved an old 6 x 48, 36 grit sanding belt and I may try to even out the "base" of  this Rocha Roxa.

I'll let you know how things turn out, till then;

Peace/Heddwch

My rock collection is busy gathering dust.

I need to give it a good clean up and make a better back-drop for it.



Gaia lives down there, and Maria joined her because it's more peaceful there than anywhere else. Also a Caganer because she seemed to belong. They are almost compulsory in Iberian nativity scenes and she seemed a good sort of friend for both Maria and Gaia.

Which reminds me, Austin has been busy trying to keep Roxa out of mischief by working on the willow feeder with her and it's nearly ready to deploy. I won't tell her you have a sander. She likes tools and will want to come and help once she's finished her magnum opus.

I like your little "pooper" !!!

Just have that purple scamp drop me a note about coming to visit.  I still carry a gun, well most days.

Snowing now like it really really means some business, I'm sure it will not last long (I hope).

Peace/Heddwch