Opals Win Some Lose Some ( about Yowah and Koroit Opals ) is finished as is Smoke Gets in Your Eyes a Lightning Ridge Opal Field Cookbook and so is all except the cover of Fancy Patterns Opal. I am half way through Do or Die Cutting a book on Cutting Yowah Opals. So although not digging opals I have been busy. the only sore muscles from these endevors is my glutemus maximus from all the sitting at the computer! Now the task is to raise the money to pay for the printing. Sometimes I think I would be better off just writing for magazines. There is no money up front there. But then I wouldn’t have an inventory of books for future sales, just the one time payment for the article. Decisions decisions. The old recluse miners of today, as I guess did their predecessors before them, always love the mining and the finding but then their headaches begin. Decisions on valuing, partnership splits, where to hide the opal, how to cut it, if to cut it…all decisions and worry. Exactly what most had gone Bush to avoid. None of it is easy.