While at our mentors house on Friday with their daughter and Grandson, I ended up bringing home what was left of Louise"s sphere collection.  At one time it was extensive.  Family had taken some, and some just disappeared into thin air.

As it is, I have been looking at 80 spheres since then.  Many are from material we dug on our desert trips together.  Some are duplicates of ones in my collection.  What to do?

Well there are 20 that will be going for donation to the Sportsman Club of Joshua Tree.  I think that Louise would like to know that funds raised will go to support the battered women home there being she could have used assistance like that from her first husband.

20 or so will go into my collection.  Some I had made for her, others made by a couple of different individuals when she would get impatience by how slow I was in the early days.  The rest I will rework to bring them to my current level of polish.  Most of these are material she and Jim collected in the years before we met them.  Some I do not know what they are or where they are from.  Almost all their trips were in the west.  

I have my work cut out for me.  I will very likely never get them all reworked.  They will be a reminder.

Thanks for reading.....