HurtHawk

We have a new addition to the regular deer
herd that inhabits my back yard.

  I named him "utensil"...
 

  after all.........
 

  he's just a fork!

A quick look out my front door showed 2" of
new snow in the last hour. Then I looked out the back door and found these girls near the patio..(I think they wanted me to put up the umbrella).

Rick

After two days of cold rain (the gauge has 2.5 inches in it) it was great to see the sun today. I decided to work on the homemade sluice since it needed to be refinished and waterproofed for the upcoming season.

I removed the rubber mat and noticed that some dirt had accumulated in the gaps left when the mat was glued down.
Knowing how sneaky bits of gold can be, I carefully scraped the material in to a pan. There was only about 1 tablespoon
of material, but I panned it out anyway.

Here is the result..

Those of you with a flare on your sluice may want to check the space between the flange and sluice body.
I have found gold stuck there on a couple of occasions.