Steph

What Ric said. #3 That Akro is called a Moss Agate. #4. That Pelt is a "Patch" believe it or not. Pelt patches can get screwy. #1. That Pelt is called a "Rainbo".

That's one bad-@$$ squirrel.

Not slang. Obscure.

These are my puppies. I just lost the fellow on the left. Fellow on the right is going strong. When we move ... which is hopefully happening soon ... we'll surely add a new family member too. Thinking about a real puppy ... but then I think about having to take it outside multiple times everyday to do its business and realize I might not be cut out to be a dog person.

I want to move to Canada!

Thanks, Ron.

Steve, that would be a good question to ask in a separate thread in the main chat forum. Can't remember offhand if we have collectors from Germany posting. We do have marble run makers from Germany posting, but not sure about marble collectors. If we do though, they're probably not checking the ID threads often. So a fresh thread with a clear title would be the best way to see.

Thanks, Alan.

Pssst ... Galen ... "Tater" is their family nickname. Happy weekend to everyone. Especially the pups!

Thanks for the pictures, folks! I'll try to get brave and get my own pictures. I especially want to capture the blue glow. Sometimes blue is like a lack of glow, but this blue that I have in mind is definitely light coming from the glass.

Oh yes, I also had 0's. I would look for marbles which were so neutral that they stayed black in the dark under the blacklight. And I had a marble I called e-to-the-x ... it looked the same under blacklight as it did in normal light. Bonus points if you get the reason I called that e-to-the-x.

Yeah .... I was kinda obsessed with getting them just so. Don't pay too much attention to the ramblings of a madwoman who assigned her blacklight marbles a grade of 1 to 7, with the possibility of getting a half grade such as 5.5.

Kinda looks like something astronomical .... a giant spot on the surface of a planet in a picture taken with the Hubble telescope.

Ooooooohhhh ..... lol ........ I guess not .......

Yes, that drizzle is kinda nice. I agree with Ann about it looking like a slag.

Yup ... fun. Back when I had a computer with photoshop, I got quite good at taking dramatic blacklight photos. Dark room. Black background. My no-frills camera would turn the black background purple but then I'd go into photoshop and play with color levels until I subdued the purple and then the glow would jump out. I was really really REALLY into blacklight marbles!

Oh, that's a good one. Why the companies used uranium in opaque white glass, I do not know. But it makes it fun for us.

I don't know what it is. Since it's handmade I just wanted it to be in the main forum instead of the ID forum because I figured you had a better chance of getting a name in the main forum.

Ha! I knew I had started this thread before. I need it again today. I'm sitting here looking at my backgammon briefcase full of monopoly money from at least two monopoly games. So I messed up at least three games to fill that briefcase! But just as I was about to get rid of it about a month ago, I asked my husband if he wanted it and he does. So there's that.

whid: verb (used without object), whidded, whidding. 1. to move quickly and quietly. noun 2. a quick, noiseless movement. Rabbits whid.

Short videos might generate more hits than long ones do. That goes with the idea of stunts. Something to get people into the action quickly, and then be rewarded with an impressive feat.

Welcome back. My votes: #3 Marble King The rest: West Virginia Swirls The first two could be Alley. Not sure at all about the last two other than being WV Swirls.

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