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september 4 2009

Here’s some neat things that might not make, “Exploring Diamonds”: 

september 3 2009

Top left is that very sensitive scale I told you about yesterday, and top right is called a “rifka” – a 2-ply piece of paper folded in a special way that you carry your diamonds around in.  Big stones get their own rifka and little stones get grouped together in one.  

I find it funny that’s how a diamond gets carted all over the world… until the consumer gets it, houses it in a special box that’s often velvet-lined, and maybe has a lock.

The painting on the bottom is depicting the diamond industry and I don’t understand all the nuances and allusions, but it’s nice and colourful eh.

And there’s Keith and Al, friends and diamond guys for 25+ years.  Hi fellas! 

september 3 2009

Dwayne and I met where we met and see top right?  That’s a book he made dedicated to me and my Blog Party and it says ‘Keri, The Canadian Explorer’ on the cover.  So pumped. 

And you know how I said he had a surprise for me?  It was that he’d already secured the first raffle prize of the night yesssss.

We’re going to do some more investigating into possible venues (I’m still kinda stuck on this one), I have to draw up the guest list (which’ll be basically “Dear Internet, You’re Invited) and the date we’re looking at is *tentatively* November 12.  I also gotta get some sort of drink sponsor so at the very least, the first drink is on me.  

Bottom right is my ponytail looking the best it has in a while.

It’s here in Canada, in and around the Hamilton area and there’s 125+ of them.  Click here for a great site dedicated to them all.

september 2 2009

That’s Chris and Steve, an adorable couple who took me out (pseudo-studio!) to see seven of them.  Turns out it’s never just a waterfall… there’s cascading, curtain, ribbon, many different types.  Chris was so helpful on this exploration by researching and planning the trip, which is why I tweeted this.  Oh, how I know Chris is she made me my tooth, click here.

Chris also made us a picnic lunch which we ate at The Hermitage , a heritage building in Ancaster which is rumoured to be haunted.  Then out of nowhere I got very very cold, yanked down my sleeves and curled up into myself:

Steve: Cold?
Me: All of a sudden very
Chris: I know me too
Me: Maybe it’s the ghost, they say when the temperature drops rapidly like that there’s a ghost present
Steve: Well we have been talking about him all day
Us: [heads turn in unison toward the gatehouse he lives in]

Three words became the theme of the day: hermitage, giglala (definition: very fancy) and interloper *.  And I didn’t know until well into the exploration that they’d never seen even one of my episodes… thanks for the trust guys, your time and the laughs.

* Google trick: search for ‘define: xxxxxxx’ and get back a page of definitions from various sources