We're in Denver Colorado!

We decided to driver to Denver Colorado to avoid the strong storm warnings in Missouri. Lisa's son, David, lives in Denver and so does Lisa's sister Sherri. The back of our little scottie has a little damage, and David is going to fix it for us. We met with him and Tina at their favorite Denver bar, Hoppers. This is such a unusual hang-out, as they have volleyball tournaments on the back deck (which is the only place you can smoke since Denver passed the no smoking in bars law) They also have awesome live entertainment, so we enjoyed our evening very much. If you get a chance to visit Denver, this is the place to come. There's a motel right next store in case you have as much fun as we did!

David sends his love to his children, Little Man, and Katie, and wants them to know that he loves and misses them very much.

We still want to visit with Sherri, and will try to do so before we leave this area. Then its on to the mountains!! Canada, here we come!!

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We're in Springfield Missouri Now

We would post some pics of us with our "finds", if we could get all the mud off our "finds" so we could photograph them!!! Although we are looking pretty rough by this time, and our friends might not recognize us!! We will photograph the smaller pieces we found for making jewelry .

As we were leaving the town of Mt Ida, Arkansas, we stopped in a few shops and found more incredible people. Sheila makes hand-made quilts, and even sells hand-made quilt squares. Her email address is densheila@cebridge.net.

Her son and daughter-in-law own the Crystal Seen shoppe. This is an incredible shop, and Julie is the person to talk to if you want to know anything about crystals. She is great friends with Dee, (the lady from our last post) and we would have liked to spend more time with these powerful women. Still trying to get Lisa to slow down because when she gets focused on a goal, she is relentless in pursuing it. It's a challenge to get her to accept that healing is a goal in itself, and that she must focus on that in order for her to heal. She's getting there, but it's hard for her to put herself first.

We also stopped in Stikx & Stones, and saw a wonderful display of all the large clusters they are taking to the Gem show in Tuscan Az. Lisa stayed in the truck while I went in and talked with Brenda. Lisa has a hard time staying in the rock shops as she gets light-headed and nauseated when spending too much time around the large crystals. I found a great little quartz with clorite and gave it to Lisa. Clorite taps into the unused female sexual energy to increase the healing process, and both Lisa and I have plenty of unused sexual energy to tap. We have to take advantage of that energy while on the road, because once we get to Alaska, we may start using that energy for other things!

We're in Missouri now and visited the Eagles last night. We are really tired of carrying this soap into the room every night, so we thought we might be able to sell some Eagle Bars there. It was a very slow night, but since there is a flash flood warning for this area today, we will stay over until Sat. so that we don't lose our little Scottie to the Land of Oz.

We should be hitting the border by Sunday and then we will be heading into Canada.
We do not know if we can get an internet connection in Canada, so we may have to wait to post again when we leave Canada.


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We made it to Arkansas!!

We made it to Arkansas after saying good-byes to our families. We have a room right here in Mt Ida, close to all the mines. The motel owners gave us the honeymoon suite which has a king bed and jacuzzi for the same price we would have paid for a regular room. I think he thought Lisa and I were a couple, but we didn't care because we wanted that jacuzzi!!
We went out today to several of the mines. Wegner mines, which is owned by Richard, has some wonderful BIG crystals on display in their museum. We managed to find some of the auras that we will wrap/ We also found the hard to find celestial aura, which is such an awesome shade of purple and blue.
There are several ways you can dig for your own crystals there, but we decided to go to Gee and Dee's mine to dig, as we were told by a local that Gee would open up a vein for us to dig. Dee is a real character and is in charge of sending people to the mines and selling the crystals that her husband has dug and cleaned up. This is the best place to buy really big crystal clusters for a reasonable price. You can buy the little ones there too. The heart shaped rock is just full of blue phatom crystal points. Dee said her husband dug that rock up on their anniversary. ( i wanted to take those crystals right off that heart, as it is the same type of crystals I wear around my neck, and many customers have asked for their own)

This digging up crystals is hard work. Right now we have some huge crystals sitting in buckets of water so that we can clean the red clay off. Then we have to soak them in some kind of acid so that we can see what we have. We may then have to break up the rock in order to free certain crystals.

We'll be sitting in the jacuzzi tonight and thinking of ya'll.

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Sway Bars are ON!!

We have installed the sway bars onto the little Scottie. The technician told us that we cannot use the sway bars on gravel, or in rainy or slippery surfaces. Then he tells us not to back up as it will break the sway bars. The directions say one thing, and the tech says another. So now we are confused. And it doesn't take that much to confuse us. I guess we will have to learn from experience. Anywho, we have the sway bars, so everyone can stop worrying! And we want our share of the pool!
We also got a tuneup, oil change, and had the breaks adjusted. Tomorrow we will get the vacumn hose replaced, and then we are off to visit my mom in Atlanta Ga for a day.

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Born Free, Born To Be Wild, Freedom Rocks! WE ARE FREE!

We are sitting here at the beach, looking out at the beautiful ocean, relaxing after the 3 grueling packing days! We got everything that we wanted to take with in the little Scottie, and know now that the decision not to get an RV was a good one, as we would never have been able to pack all these store supplies into an RV. That little sucker is packed so well that the load did not even shift when we had to pull over to the side of the road on a hill, ( which should have shifted the load way to the right) because Randy forgot to attach the safety chains to our little Scottie when he changed the hitch! And we forgot to check to see if they were attached again! We won't make that mistake again!!

We will be heading in to get the sway bars attached to the trailer tomorrow and will post that pic so that our friends will know the little Scottie has the sway bars. Although it is pulling well, we do notice that when we hit a bad patch of road, or a bump, we do swing!!
Kinda making us nauseated, like having a hangover without the fun!

Someone please send us a pic of Lisa's ball, as the one I took came out blurry.

We will post pics of Lisa's farewell party as soon as we get the pics.

We have decided to close the store in a vacation setting, as it will be too complicated to keep it open while we are traveling. We will re-open on July 4th.

My son wanted us to come to Pa and help him run his business. What did we say??
NO,,NO,,,NO

We miss everyone already, although not so much that we are willing to come back!
Love to you all
Deb and Lisa

New Gator Bars in Fla Colors

We have created these new gator bars for people who do not like the pastel colors of the gator bars we have in the store.
They come in two colors, blue with an orange gator on top and an orange bar with a blue gator on top. We strive to achieve the proper colors for Gator fans, and hope people will let us know how they like these new bars.

Only two weeks to go before our target date..we still haven't decided on our rv but we are getting closer to making a decision. We need lots of storage space for our products and that is causing us some issues!! We're getting ready for the pig roast, and the raffle for Lisa's bass boat which will be held on May 25th at Porky's Landing in Georgetown Fl.
The tickets are $100.00 a piece , the money will be returned to all participants if we do not sell 50 tickets by the raffle date.
We also have a 37" JVC color tv for sale if anyone is interested. The color is really nice on this unit.

So we have a lot of things going on at the same time, and we may be getting a little frazzled!

Can't wait to get out on the road, although there are people we will sorely miss when we leave.

Last Chance to See Us!

The Memorial Day Free Hog Roast is coming up on May 25th (Sun) at Porky's Landing in Georgetown, Fl. This will be the very last chance for our friends and customers to see us before we head out of town ! We will have a table set up with items from the store, and items from our homes that we are leaving behind! It will also be the last chance to buy a raffle ticket on the 21 ft Skeeter Bass boat. The raffle tickets are going for $100.00 each, and we must sell at least 50 of them or we will return the money for tickets back to the ticketholders. We will draw on the bass boat raffle at this event.
We will also have a 50/50 draw which gives half the money to the winner and half the money goes into our gas fund!

We have included a couple of pics so you can see the pigs (before you eat them!) And the people who serve them. There will be live entertainment along with the free food. Come and see us, and tell Randy you heard about the roast from the blog!!

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