It was calm and warm Saturday, in advance of a bitter norther. We went back to the estate sale that yielded so many great finds, and I bought all the rest of the fossils I could find. This was the last day of the sale and everything was reduced in price-- 50% I spent less than $20. I got another claw, this one was smaller and broken off, and what seemed to be bits of phalanges still covered by scraps of calcified skin. Darned if there wasn't a large carnivore (probably theropod) tooth in the mix, and something that looked like a small, calcified, theropod foot. I talked to a lady who knew the couple whose house that was, where the estate sale was held. The husband was an Engineering professor at Texas Tech, but he had an interest in geology and paleontology and mineralogy. He died several years ago and his wife lived there alone until she needed nursing care. The woman I spoke to had helped care for her in her home. I kept information about the sale as a kind of provenance. At any rate, I took pics of my total fossil "haul" from this estate sale. Are these things authentic dinosaur fossils? I'm not sure how to authenticate this stuff.
UPDATE: These are actually fossils of ancient coral and cretaceous reef-building clams. See my other posts on this topic.
After we got back, I flew the plane I constructed from scratch and it flew well enough. Not too much trim adjustment required. I'll have more to say about it after I get a chance to fly it again.
UPDATE: These are actually fossils of ancient coral and cretaceous reef-building clams. See my other posts on this topic.
After we got back, I flew the plane I constructed from scratch and it flew well enough. Not too much trim adjustment required. I'll have more to say about it after I get a chance to fly it again.
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