So...Many of you know already that I am a huge fan of hunting sapphires. I have written about it in the past....and spend a good portion of my summer at the mine doing nothing but washing gravel and finding treasure like these....
It is about a 75 mile drive from my house to Phillipsburg, home of The Sapphire Gallery. That is where I go to have all of my gems judged for quality, schedule all of the heat treating that I need and arrange to have all of the treated stones cut and mounted in jewlery.
But, that is all beside the point....On the way there, you have to travel through the thriving metropolis of Hall, MT. OK...so, its less of a metropolis and more like a ghost town with a couple stragglers. You have a better chance of seeing about 1,000 head of cattle for every person in Hall, MT. The entire town is comprised of a boarded up grain elevator, a rusted out train stop, a broken down garage turned into a house, and about 10 houses...most of which are boarded up.
However, despite the over-all shambles of the town...there is one house just north of the city center that is worth seeing. (Just north of the city center equals roughly about a 47 second walk stumble crawl from downtown....or, what was downtown...) Anyway, you get the point....
In the yard of this house is this sign...
Im not entirely sure exaxtly what this is supposed to be telling me...But, I had to venture a couple guesses...
- CAUTION -- CHILDREN PLAYING WITH LAWNMOWERS??
- CAUTION -- WOMEN MOWING AT HIGH SPEED??
- CAUTION -- LAWNMOWERS RUN AWAY FROM USER??
(Feel free to add a few of your own guesses. Im sure someone out there is more creative than I am...)
Anyway....Make sure when you are on your way to Phillipsburg to stop and take a picture of this sign and show it to your friends...While your at it, get pictures of the steel rhino, grizzly bear, and blue heron that are 5 miles north of this sign. (Im hiding the pictures of that from you....you have to go there yourself for those.)
**********UPDATE***********
I submitted this sign to the following site... http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CUTS/signs/
And, if you have a minute, click on that link and see some of the other hilarious signs that have been submitted...the one about whale watching is a riot! That one and the one that tells you to remove your dentures...LOL!
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That is the illusive lawnmowette.