My wife goes on Gold missions, but she's more into putting a camping chair in the river and getting some Sun while reading a book. Her pink pan doesn't see much pay dirt.

   Sorry to hear that Art, I hope you spent Christmas with family & friends.

   Oh cool, being with friends always makes Christmas better. What kind of models are you into? I work on model kits for years sometimes. This is the lighted Star Trek Bridge, lots of work.  e eE E-

Nice job on that one.  Mostly WWII aircraft and F4's and B52's from the "Nam era (my time).  Some ships.  Working on a 1/48 Japanese "Betty" in surrender markings (white with green crosses, 2 were done to fly the surrender delegation to Okinawa for discussions), and a 1/144 Gato sub, done as USS Wahoo (SS 238) in a diorama with Mush Mortons quote "Another running gun battle today- destroyer gunning Wahoo running".  Also doing a 1/32 F4D as Steve Ritchie's ace bird (67-463) from Udorn RTAFB when I was there.   If you get a chance, check out Fine Scale Modeler forum.

Apologies for the OT hijack

Yup. Mine loves using my 2 1/2" dredge. This was taken this past fall up at Vein Mountain LDMA.

My better half is with me 97% of my mining time, and that is a good thing for many reasons

She is the only one who knows the location of the goods

She's not a bad shot, and knows me better than I know me....scary  

Glad she comes along and puts up with me, sometimes that's not easy

      Bill