Steph

Soothing, like watching running water or listening to rain. It was good to see your hand at the beginning. That helped show the scale. And cool effect at the end watching the title turn into colorful randomness.

Not footballs ... and not showing them off well ... but these are some of my favorite deformities. They have flat bottoms or creases which give them built-in marble stands. (And a few in this pic are flat-out halfs, so they have their own built-in base that way.)

It's soooo hard. "This one has a tail." "This one has a flame pattern." "This one has shades of blue that that one doesn't." Et cetera!

We're getting down the homestretch in the sort. The marbles which were gifts (small sets) from the various runs are safe. Well, "safe" from being discarded. I stored my first several runs in one single box, separated with loose dividers ... and then I tripped ... so one day I'm going to ask for help telling them apart. But they're mostly safe and I didn't repeat that mistake. But I had soooo many of the Last Dances and Tributes. I've had some good help finding new homes for many of them. But here are the "SemiFinals" of my keeper sort. I wanted to fit all the keeper Last Dances into one glass-top case and all the keeper Tributes into a second case. Below you see how well that's going. The Last Dance case semi-final sort in progress: The Tribute case semi-final sort in progress:

Oh yeah. Nice trio. Did you find them in the wild?

Ah, thanks. Now get arting!

CnC means?

pritty

At first I thought, "yeah, could be double ingot". Then I saw your reference to a rubber ball, and then I thought, "yeah, could be a rubber ball".

My Last Dance sort continues ...

Ha! You heard it, everyone!

*thinking about Ann* Our move looks like it could really be happening too. I'm terrified. Over dumb stuff like how to change my internet service (and not screw up on any of the ongoing ebay auctions which I'm doing fast and furiously to try to help finance the move).

crazy cat

Wonder who has hers ... and where I got mine and who mine ended up with mine ... and if anyone else has any .....

Yes! I think that's it!

Yikes, not a good week. Glad you knew all the things to do to minimize the damage. Glad your dad is feeling better.

you so funny Thanks for playing! .

Weeeeeerd.

Sometimes I google hoping to find some fun marble-related news item to post. .... and sometimes I can't even hint about what I found because it's too awful. There's some really sketchy stuff which happens with marbles.

Soooo, some may not know, but the Last Dance name came from the name for the celebration of life of a Special Forces member who had passed away. (I don't know if many Special Forces members had such a celebration, or if it was just one particular veteran.) So while many of the Last Dance style names are actual dances, some have a military connection, including the name of the run itself. This style name is Special Forces.

Before I go back to Last Dance here's the Kokomo Lutz Confetti Josh posted in my ID thread yesterday.

From the Jabo Kokomo run

From the Jabo Joker Odyssey run