Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

Finally got to give Dr. ER her 10th wedding anniversary gift the other night! The item pictured is not it exactly, but it shows how good rubies and dimaonds and yellow gold look together -- especially on my Dr. ER!

What I did was I had her some earrings built. Very simple: ruby-diamond-ruby, on simple yellow-gold bars (8-point ruby, 6-point diamond, 8-point ruby).

They match her wedding set.

Engagement ring is diamond-ruby-diamond-ruby-diamond (10 points each, I think ... maybe 10-point rubies and 5-point diamonds ... not sure, it's been 10 years!) And the wedding ring is a 25-point diamond flanked by 10-point rubies.

And I had it all built! "Built" -- a running joke for 10 years now.

See, when I had Dr. ER lassoed but not yet mugged and tied, I toted a couple of gold nugget rings of mine in and sat down with a jeweler and told 'em what I wanted.

When I got 'em, I took 'em to work, at the paper in Texas, and at our afternoon budget meeting, I slid the box across the conference table and said, "Look what I had built!"

One of the gal editors said, "E! You don't have rings built! You have 'em made!"

Well. I had 'em built. And I had these earrings built, too.

And Dr. ER was well pleased. :-)

--ER