So, It is a lovely day here. The sun is shining, there is a nice breeze and I am sitting on the patio with an nice cold beer and my trusty MacBook, just enjoying the day.

I hope that, wherever you are, it is also a pleasant day.

This is the ring I purchased at the estate sale. The center stone is slightly less than half a carat, and the 12 rubies that surround it are about an eighth of a carat each. The setting is 18k gold. The guy who ran the estate sale insisted that it was a zircon with lab created rubies. As it turns out, I was right and he was wrong.