June 2017 Picnic and Auction

Beach Themed Picnic Food

Mary R. (center in blue) and Diana Poppelreuter (left)
created a beachy background for all of the potluck picnic dishes

Auction Items

Specimens from Cornwall, England

Moss agate from India with some Gorilla Snot hair gel to tame it down

Slag plus some hot, hot chili

A Foredom rotary tool!

Core samples from a talc mine plus some Minion Pez to help them with their outlaw ways

Yummy pudding stone conglomerate

Cool cave formations (legally collected)

Box o' stuff

Delightful dioptase from Tsumeb, Africa

Highly fluorescent calcite and Franklinite from New Jersey

Giant glass gem i.e. paperweight

Trim saw!

Big kiln and some big maps

Boulder opal embedded in a section of wall plus a close-up

Rhodolite garnet from North Carolina

Stunning Apophyllite and Stilbite from India

Stack of books including this one

Rough crazy lace agate from Mexico

Spooky skeletal quartz from South Carolina

Slag plus a tomato plant

Unopened geodes from Tennessee

Fossilized coral!

"Grape" agate, possibly from Utah

Barite

Excited junior bidding on something cool

Perfect playground right next to the pavilion!

Auction Time

Last minute auction additions (second one with half a Sue Gorday for scale)

Jay Gorday (left) displaying an item for auctioneer Kim Cochran

Margaret Ronan helped display and deliver auction items, too

Kim kept going while Charles Carter filled in display and delivering after half time

Auction fun and picnic food

Gilligan didn't bid on anything, but he scored some picnic snacks -- great day!