Downtown Date Day

Happy Wednesday, lovelies. You read that title correctly, I went out on a date this afternoon! With myself. Geez, I'm a married lady folks.

The intent of this afternoon downtown was to job hunt since, unfortunately, we just can't cut it on Joe's income alone and as much as I love it, Etsy isn't paying my bills. So I've been inquiring anywhere that seems interesting about part-time work. Apparently, no one is hiring at this time.

I didn't let that ruin my afternoon though. I took myself out to lunch at the Mellow Mushroom where I had a slice of avocado and tomato pizza. If that wasn't satisfying enough, my server was nice enough to give me an iced tea for the road. I didn't even ask! :)

From there I walked up main street past the park:

That spec of person down there on the sidewalk? That's a man on a Unicycle. Drinking a slurpee!

And visited Revolutionary Mouse, one of ten bronze mice located along Main St. The other 9 are part of a downtown attraction called Mice on Main. Don't tell the others. but Revolutionary Mouse is my favourite...

I stopped by the rock and gemstone shop where I picked up a few beauties:

A hand carved howlite bat pendant! He's a bit cock-eyed, but I love him just the same.


A set of gemstones. Clockwise from the top: a mystery stone, blue goldstone, red jasper and amethyst. We'll come back to that mystery stone later.

The last place I visited was the general store where I picked up something for the drive home:

That's right. Coke in a glass bottle!

Now that I'm home, I've been scratching my head over the mystery stone I picked up. It's a fairly heavy stone for it's size, has light banding that is really only visible when it is held to the light and is composed of red mottled tones. I think it may be red agate, but I'd like to ask if any of you more seasoned rock identifiers can help me with this:

Here it is in the palm of my hand:


And here it is, backlit by the sun:

Any thoughts?