Gems, Minerals and...Burros?

This past weekend, Travis and I attended the 70th annual Gem-O-Rama held in the tiny town of Trona. Every year the local plant in conjunction with the city puts together a gem and mineral festival. The plant allows people to mine for crystals such as pink halite from the dry lake bed where they've been pulling boron for the past 90 years. We didn't participate in the field trips to excavate for crystals (it's messy and we needed to be more prepared), but we did enjoy ourselves at the vendor booths set up at the event. Believe it or not, I actually didn't take any pictures of the many fossil rocks, gems, crystals and beads that were there, but I did get a really nice picture of a butterfly!

Pretty, right?

After enjoying ourselves at the festival, we decided to go to visit our local BLM field office where they house wild horses and burros. We're fortunate enough to have a facility not too far from us that adopts out these wonderful animals that are captured through the wild horse and burro herd management program. This was my second visit to the corrals, and I have definitely come to the conclusion that I want a burro. They are so cute and very sweet and they make excellent companion animals.




BLM just finished up a big round up of burros this past week, so there were lots to see. They even had babies! Oh, they were so cute.




One day, I know I'll have a burro or two...and a few llamas, some goats, definitely chickens, oh and tons of Danes. A girl can dream, right?

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