Steph

It's distinguished!

One of my boyfriends liked the Willie Nelson one, so I have fond memories of that.

Greetings and salutations

Peter Caparelli, the owner of Land of Marbles. http://landofmarbles.com/

I have a teensy rebel. Not quite a peewee.

Getting pretty far into the weeds now. Hope I made sense.

It's not so much me disagreeing with what folks call it -- it's just a quirk with collector's definitions. Some marbles could be considered Popeyes which were never part of a tri-onyx run ... but marbles which were part of a tri-onxy run and were sold in Popeye boxes could be rules out as popeyes because they don't have enough clear or don't have enough filamented white. The technical details of the collectors' definition make some real tri-onyx's somehow not good enough to be Popeyes. But in theory some other marbles could slide into the category even though they weren't originally in a tri-onxy run. So I'm really commenting on how names can drift away from the original versions so much the original marbles in that class don't qualify any more. It'd be like if someone went up to Chuck B. and tried to argue that their definition for Vitro Superiors was better than his and that what he was calling Superiors weren't really. When he and Diane are the ones who coined the name.

Okay, so it still looks like a Peltier Rainbo ... but there is something different going on, like it might be an error and could have been discarded. That's my best answer.

Email sent.

Since you are not sure I am not sure. Structurally all I see is Rainbo. But ... is it different? ... are we seeing "chalkie"-like striations?

Nice bump!

Mondegreen http://www.fun-with-words.com/mala_mondegreens.html

Got out of the habit of running ... no surprise, eh. But I've done a little here and there and it feels comfortable. Did a half mile easy today. Then walked a bit. Then maybe did another quarter. No burps. Maybe a little heartburn.

Nice. I hope I'll remember this example for when people try to say something isn't a popeye because it doesn't fit the collector's definition -- even though Akro made it in a Tri-Onyx Agate run. What kind of note can I make to myself to bookmark this?

genua is the official name for the knee. Hence, the etymology of genuflect = bend the knee.

has to be, doesn't it?

Isn't that sweet when you see granddad's marbles and they're something like this? I hope your friend understands what a treasure they are.

I went out to trim the bushes and vines in the rain. I love the rain. Trimming the vines is just sort of a way to dance in the rain without anyone knowing I'm dancing. But I'm not too afraid of anyone seeing me. In our last rain I went out into the road and splashed in the puddles.

Heard about the World's Biggest Marble Hunt? It's mentioned here: Have you lost your marbles? Go find them in St. Louis! WBMH has a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1701482663452819/

"Marbles in the soup" ... marbles used for food photography ... to force the good stuff to the top of the bowl. http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2008/may/marbles-in-the-soup/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/468053

*stares at the sunsets* (That's what we're supposed to do with sunsets, right?)