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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 23h

Thank you! 😃

Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 1d

This next barrel, I didn't picture last week, unfortunately. This one was working on stage three of miscellaneous rocks that I've collected. It will be running them in stage four this week.

#RockTumbling

A collection of very smooth stones on a blue towel in dim lighting.

A close-up of a translucent stone being lit by a jade light.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 1d

Trying something new this week. My stage 1 barrel was tasked with stage 2. And as a birthday gift the stones will get ultrasonic cleanings in the latter stages. Continuing from last week there are the mossy agates and the river collections.

#RockTumbling

A decent collection of stones on a blue towel with even lighting. These are smooth and tumbled to stage two.

A close-up of several stones held in hand. The top left is a vibrant red jasper. The top middle is a varied red jasper. The top right appears to be a blue grey chert. The bottom left is one of the green moss agates. The bottom middle is a piece of unidentified jasper. It is blue and white and very pretty. The bottom right is a nice piece of epidote and quartz.

A close up of another three stones, the leftmost stone is one of the river rocks collected earlier this year. The middle stone is some sort of conglomerate and it was collected locally. The rightmost stone is a blue gray banded agate of some kind that was donated to the local rock and mineral society.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 2d

Take care my friend. Unplug a bit lean into those hobbies, take some time back from the politics noise. One more day to get through..

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 8d

This batch of rocks was collected from Eastern Washington over the summer. I don't know what all of these stones are. Many of them seem to have a lot of quartz. Others seem to be ryolite or andestite. But all of them are very nice. Hopefully they'll polish well.

#Rockhounding #Rocktumbling

A wide collection of various stones on a very green towel illuminated by an artificial light because it is incredibly dark and stormy outside today..

A close up some of the stones. They have white bands, green colors, some are speckled. The one at the very far right has a very interesting coppery sheen.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 8d

Time for Rock Saturday starting with stage one. I put in too many large stones last week, so there aren't very many rocks to show. Still processing the skokomish river rocks, moss agate, rock and mineral society donations, and an Eastern Washington straggler.

#RockTumbling

A collection of stones and stage 1 polish on a green towel with even lighting.

Several miscellaneous stones held in hand. This includes a blue-gray agate. Some various the rhyolites and two green moss agates.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 8d

#Caturday Misty enjoying her paper nest over one of the heating vents this morning. She has had enough of my bs already.

Misty, my pretty gray cat, curled up in a nest made from brown packing paper.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 15d

Here's week two of the softer stones. They don't look very different, but they feel very different. They now feel smooth, almost a little slimy and kind of velvety, it's hard to describe. They've finished up with their pre-polish. Now they will be going in for 8,000 grit polish.

#RockTumbling

Soft opals, aventurine, and amazonite, in water, in a white tub with even lighting.

Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 15d

Wow! That one is amazing.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 15d

I Despise coal rollers.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 15d

Saturday again! Take a short break to recharge with pretty rocks. Stage one this week has some of the green Moss agate more of the river run material and one or two pieces that were donated to the local Rock and Mineral Club.

#RockTumbling

A collection of rocks haphazardly placed on a green towel in subdued, even lighting.

He set of three rocks held in hand in front of some vibrant red organ fire bush. The rightmost stone is one of the green mossy agate from the rock shed. The middle stone is a blue gray agate with faint banding. The leftmost stone is a red mossy agate or Jasper picked up from the skokomish river.

Three more examples of the green mossy agate from the rock shed held in front of a red Oregon fire bush.

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Holy Post Media @holypostmedia.bsky.social · 20d

"The righteous are willing to disadvantage themselves to advantage the community. The wicked are willing to disadvantage the community to advantage themselves." This framework can help guide our priorities & political engagement as Christians.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 22d

Here's the second barrel of the day. It was running stage 3 on softer stones. If I remember correctly, there's aventurine, amazonite, and some common opal. The common opal is being re-run through the system to have more soft bulk. The third barrel is going into week 2 of polish.

#RockTumbling

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 22d

It's Saturday, Rock Clean Out Day. Here's another batch at stage one. This run has some more of the river pound rock as well as green moss agate from the rock shed.

#RockTumbling

A collection of rocks, red and green and white on a green towel with subdued even lighting.

Three stones held in hand. The first is a green mossy agate. The other two are locally found red mossy agate.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 24d

Found some fun stones out and about today. #Rockhounding

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 29d

And finally, the last barrel, tumbling stage four. All these stones will be going into the fifth 8,000 grit polish. I am concerned because they are not showing the normal luster even while submerged. Hopefully 2 weeks in high polish will work.

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A group of very colorful stones submerged in water in a white tub.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 29d

Now for the second barrel, this is running stage 2 again and it has a couple of interesting rocks, some from Eastern Washington, a couple of others from various places, including that wonderful poppy Jasper from the river.

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A collection of various stones on a green towel with even lighting. There are a large number of very small agates from Oregon that were found in gravel piles. There are also a few stones that were holdovers from Eastern Washington travels and a couple of pieces of the jaspers that were purchased at a local rock show.

A close up of four stones, the top left is a mossy agate that has red jasper in it. Then, on the top right, a stone of some kind from eastern Washington that has nice green and white banding. On the bottom left, the poppy jasper mentioned earlier, and finally, the bottom right is the piece of purchased jasper. That is very blue and white.

The close up of two stones. One is a silica rich, mossy agate. The other appears to be a green serpentine.

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Nathan Doak @ndoak.com · 29d

Another week, another barrel clean out. This week continues a set of rocks from the river and a few collected from around the area. I'll be adding a few more river run rocks plus a few green mossy agates purchased from the rock shed.

#RockTumbling #RockHounding