Steph

1984

Neato! Small is also what I was envisioning for my project .... for when I ever got started. Because of space and cats! Maybe small enough to fit on a desk. Putting it in a box is not something I'd thought of. I have some slightly larger but easily portable salesman type cases.

These are boulders from an Alox bag which I got in 2008 from Nancy Frier. I thought I remembered knowing about this style of marble before that time. But maybe not knowing where they came from. And I thought I remembered seeing Master and Penny King bags containing them, which may have come to my attention around that time but were in circulation before that. Now the dates on these 1"-ers is being questioned. Also when they became available to the public is under discussion. What are your memories of them? Correction: Okay ... the question has been updated. It is agreed that the marbles were seen before then. The question is now what packaging they were seen in before 2008, or what packaging they came in which didn't come from a stash from the Alox factory after it closed. Thanks!

much squee The 25 Most Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions

Coolness! Welcome! You know we want to see it. But mostly, I hope you had fun! I'm still only dreaming of starting one.

The last generation of the von Trapp family singers is retiring. Great-grandchildren of the Captain and Maria. https://www.facebook.com/events/1683971338523873/

I'll have to go back and check out what daft thing I said. Also will have to listen to more of Andrea's music. Can you believe I'm the only one ever to hit like on the marble one on YouTube? It's been up for more than a year. We need to send her some more love.

Mt. Migration? Surely not? Did someone make a joke? I don't remember.

Thanks for bumping that! That link didn't work for me this time but here's a Youtube version. Happy place song.

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My dear departed cat is Facebook friends with Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame. Watching the Season 6 episode of X-Files in which she stars and that made me go check Brother's Facebook account to see if they're still friends. Sure enough, they are.

Yes to uranium for the bright yellow and yellow/green. (I think something else may cause some shades of green, but yes to uranium being the typical cause of that.) I think it is manganese which usually gives us the orange and red glow. (It's an m-word but I often forget which one. I think I have it correct this time.) If you pull the brightest glowing marbles out and let your eyes get adjusted to the dark again, other marbles will then seem to come through relatively brightly. If you do that a few times, you can get down to levels of glow with different colors coming through. But they're more subtle. I don't know what causes all the different shades. It's just fun to notice sometimes.

Another West Virginia swirl. Not a well defined pattern and not a color which stands out to me, so I'm sticking with generic WV Swirl.

"Transparent swirl" is all I can give you on this one. IMHO, likely a West Virginia variety.

??????? West Virginia swirl?????? What does it look like under blacklight? Which parts if any glow, and what color if any is the glow?

Eeeuw. That's interesting in a grotesque way. That's not the pretty white brick debris we're used to. Weerd.

I think the population of bunnies is in the process of being increased presently. Well, of course it is somewhere. But I think it's happening in my backyard now. Poor Joe, gonna try hard to keep the resolution not to let him out into the backyard this summer.

.... sorry for only silently oohing over Brian's vase

This photo by Jeff Hale shows what Marble King's veneering looked like from the inside:

Someone is getting a shot at a wonderful piece of history. Good luck to you.

Thanks, Ron!

no kidding! You could submit that for a photo contest and you'd get all kind of oceanic and meteorologic guesses for it.

It's alive!

???? LOL ... well, THAT was pretty darn random!