Happy Belated PiP:) Buddha’s always look happy;)
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Happy Belated PiP:) Buddha’s always look happy;)
Thanks, T :) Yes, Buddha looks happy. It's goed to laugh...Quote:
Originally Posted by TMarie
enjoy, Enjoy, ENJOY!Quote:
Originally Posted by PiP
:)
Just another day
a day like yesterday
and probably tomorrow
I see no real excuse
other than to party
but that's as good
an excuse as any
I suppose, another
step on the road
to oblivion.
Oh, and it's
my birthday.:D:champagne:
March on, writers! Have a great year.
Spent most of the day going through my in-laws coin collection, helping my wife with her executor duties.
I always liked numismatics. I have a small collection myself. Jim and Mary had some interesting coins and notes. Most of it was just bullion-value non-collectible silver. They had a bunch of wheat pennies (God, I don't know why anyone collects those). The 1943 steel pennies were a great piece of history.
The most interesting was their foreign coins. Jim and Mary were stationed in Post-War Germany, circa 1954. Going through those coins was like walking in their shoes. Although the 1942 Nazi Reich Marks were creepy. The 1944 Provisional Government Italian Lira notes were cool. I don't know how they came across coins from Guatemala and The Philippines.
Now, I just don't know what to do with them. The coins have little monetary value, and splitting them up just doesn't seem right. We'll deal with that later.
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Originally Posted by Winston
My former husband collected coins for decades. I was unhappy to learn he sold the collection. I just assumed he'd pass along to our children. He didn't need the money, and I'm sure monetary value wasn't high, but nostalgic value was. Winston, maybe there's a family member who would treasure it. My son would have loved his dad's.
We do not send Christmas cards. We do send family photo Happy New Year cards. I'm now carefully going through them (stuffed pre-printed envelopes in December) to pull out several before mailing today. They have died. Two in December alone; one funeral this week. Each year fewer weddings, more funerals. This is probably odd, but now I have "my funeral outfit", worn last 12 years, always ready. Black trousers, white dress shirt, my father's 1960s black tie with his initial (k) and real gold tie tack. My signature funeral look, friends say. I always ask if any weddings are planned. I'd like to wear red when I see my friends next time.
Started when I was about eighteen and my friend Barney died, I really know a lot of dead people now, I have to make new friends all the time or I would run out of people :)
2 fails in 24hr's...today listening to the cantebury tales on youtube an last night 1955 richard3 movie on telly....usually these things come in three's...
Uh...yeah... The minute I said I was leaving my fantasy to go do my sci-fi, it fixed up the problem I was banging my head on the metaphorical wall about.
Guess that’s to be expected. XD