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So sorry about your particular kitty. Just spend as much time with him as you can, and let him know you are there. I had a soulmate kitty too, although I tended to think of him as . . . well . . . my familiar. I lost him after 18 years, about 5 years ago, and am forced to admit I haven't yet completely gotten over it. Maybe never will.

We're gonna see what Pluto looks like tomorrow.

I love those JABO tornados! I have a couple, but I think the actual "vortex" on yours is bigger than on mine, dang it . . .

Looks like carnelian to me . . .

You look for the blue cannonball, I'll look for the red one . . .

Gotta love the world!

Best I can do is a tiny pic of some "green hornet" Akro cullet I have. One of my 2 favorite Akro color combos. Someday I'll have pics of the two marbles of it I have. I'm sure I will. I did just get a cork of opaque orange on a transparent red base. But those pics are tiny too. Oh well.

Oooh. Aventurine black somewhere in them. If you make a small one (under 1 inch) let me know! (I have 3 or 4 tiny swirls of yours, and a little airplane sulfide. They could use some company, maybe).

Ever read Chaos Theory? Anyhoo, my current screen saver is . . . Heck. Too big to upload. I'll try a former one . . . kinda like marbles in the sky . . .

So would I. The seams are a little blurry (especially in the second pic) if you look at them closely. And the red seems off . . . not CAC-y. Maybe that's not a good term, CAC-y. Sounds kinda like a cat with a hairball. But you know what I mean.

Another dream dies.

Very hard to tell from pics, but it looks like it might be. I'm not used to the color of a mist marble being described as strands. It's usually more like a thin wash of color. In hand, does it look like the interior glass (not counting a core) is colorless, and the blue is more-or-less like a "veil" of color just on the exterior? If not, it wouldn't be a "mist." At least as I understand it. It's also far darker than mists that I've seen. I don't know of any cased mist marbles but that's not saying much, since it's not a type I collected when I was in my Old German frenzy. Mainly because I never ran across one, I admit. Some of them have mica added, which is what I was really looking for. If the color is really strands, maybe it's a banded transparent. They're sometimes cased. In one of the last pics, it looks like the blue is "shrunken." Very strange. But what a nice "jelly" type blue. Maybe some of the "antiques only" people will know better, if we can root them out . . . Dan, what do you think?

Put it in a glass of water and take a look --

It's nice seeing another St. Mary's oldie!

I forgot my pink Anacortes horseshoe cats. Darla, that green and black/dark one is really striking!

I'm overwhelmed by some of the cat's-eyes here! Winnie, yours are particularly stunning! And Bill, that blue Ottowa cat's-eye with the orange , , , growth thing on the blade is amazing. And Ray, how do you do that?? What's your max vane number? Wow . . .

I call them cat's-eyes (with both apostrophe and hyphen) because that's how Marlo Peterson -- who wrote the first (and so far the only) book on cat's-eyes -- did it. He had a little reasoning about it in the book but I don't remember what it was, offhand. The "s" in "cat's" is just the possessive.

It will help if you think of NLRs as ribbon marbles, and swirls as something else entirely. There will occasionally be really "swirly" NLR s, mostly the kind people (mis)label "miller," and a few "sparse" swirls, but if you think -- for instance -- "six ribbons, more-or-less, three on one side, three on the other," you'll start getting the hang of it --

For the bag brigade . . .

Another Vitro recently rounded up . . .

I was hoping you'd post that!. Here's a favorite Euro with aventurine --

And some MKs --

And some lunch box Pelts and some AV Pelts - - -

You know there are some nice ones out there. Let's air them out a little - - -

Fairly new cats ---