Treasure Hunting

Sometimes when polishing stones in the rock tumbler, I’ll toss some miscellaneous ones in if I don’t have a full load.  Not only does this get a few extra things polished, but it helps with the balance issues in the rock tumbler.  So it’s not really uncommon to find a stone of a different variety mixed in with the main batch I am tumbling.

I swear, though, I don’t remember tossing in this piece of unakite with the last batch of jasper that I was polishing.  And from the looks of it, I threw it in the tumbler sometime after the initial stage.  So I’m extra clueless on why I would do that because that would make the stone not polish up nicely as you can see in the picture.  It’s not a huge deal since I can toss it in the pile of things that need to be polished again, and it is just unakite which is pretty common in these parts.  It’s still bugging me though since I can’t remember anything about it!  Or maybe, just maybe, I have mischievous rock imps living somewhere in the house - probably in the laundry room behind the washer if they’re smart since I’d never think to look there.

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