The trouble with opal mining is there is so much  dirt mixed with the opals and so little time to separate the two. I do that days and then tackle the other commodity…words, at night.so little time so much dirt There is so much to say and share about opals and the life to those who care. So I spend any free time working my other mine, my word mine! I work it with taking jpegs  and slides, and writing blogs, and in my books.  Well with my car broken down here in USA, I am at the  computer working on four books: Opals Win Some Lose Some, and on a book about cutting Yowah opal maybe to be called Dirty Little Secrets About Cutting Yowah Opal, Fancy Pattern Opal of Queensland, and Smoke gets in Your Eyes Cookbook. The writing comes easy to me but putting it together electronically… well that is still a learning curve. Plus putting information out there that is both useful AND entertaining ….well that hurts my brain!