This morning I got the drop saw going.  This was only after I did the hand grinding on a petrified palm sphere.  Needless to say my arms fell like they are about to fall off.  I need to figure out a way to pull the blade  down without standing of my tip toes to reach the handle.  Using it should help with the bingo arms! (the flabby part of your under arm that hits old ladies in the face when they raise there arms to yell bingo.)  Maybe I should put our an exercise video on it.  It could be like the Jane Fonda video of old.

I did take the corners off of 4 Golden Amphibolite spheres, a Graves Mountain Blue Diamond Lapis and a Namibian Sodalite.  All maxed out the capacity of the drop saw due to either hardness or size.  I will have hand grinding enough to keep me busy for the rest of the week.

I managed to complete all 16 Sonora Sunrise spheres.  Bruce seems happy with the video I sent him.  My share will turn up on the website in August.  

Friday my new labels came.  Evenings have been spent relabeling all the spheres in inventory.  It has taken significantly longer than expected and now there are boxes of spheres all over the floor in the living room.  I plan on using this opportunity to do a mock set up for the Prescott Valley show in August.  This will be a challenge as I have only 12 linear feet of space.  Deciding what to take can make or break this show.  Not having been to it, I have no idea what the crowd is like.  

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