I've got the fever!!

So since I have been out here I have defiantly caught the glass ball bug. I didn't even know what glass balls were until the construction crew came out here for the last month. A couple of the guys were fanatics and would get up and comb the beaches at 4 am for these things. Well there passion was contagious because last sunday I went out to look for them at 4:30 am!

It is not as bad as it seems because I had to get up for general conference at 5 anyway. It just so happens that my computer was running fast that day so I had a little extra time before it started and I couldn't waste a perfect opportunity to scope out the glass ball hot spots before everyone else. So I got up and checked the harbor corners, but no luck so I went back home. But I still had an itch that I couldn't scratch so I went back out a 7 am in between sessions.

This time I walked from the cargo pier to cross point (which is called turtle beach), but since that beach is closed off I had to walk along the vegetation and keep my eyes glued to the beach so I fell into like 80 petrel holes. I still didn't find one so I was just going to walk on the road back home, but I couldn't give up hope so once again I trudge through the petrel holes. Then half way down the beach there she was just shimmering and shining in the sunlight. I ran over to her and picked her up and she is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She's not perfect...just special. It is this pale light blue and it has a couple of cracks plus it has this powder on the inside. I think it used to have a spindle but it got crushed up into powder, or it is cocaine and I will be able to pay off my loans when I sell it, either way is cool

My second child was a surprise baby when after dinner on monday I decided to walk down to Rusty Bucket before the sunset. So I get my ice cream cone and walk down and right there
shinning so brightly is another beautiful glass ball!!! It was right in front of clipper and it was right in the tide zone so it looked like it had just washed in. It had to be fate! I was not expecting to find anything on north beach because that is the only legal beach on the island so I thought that anything worth while would have been picked off already. This one is smaller and it is the classic blue green ball color, but it is really pretty and almost a perfect circle.

I am very happy with my new collectors items and can now hopefully return to normal sleep patterns now that the pressure of finding at least one glass ball has been lifted from my shoulders!