What's Everyone Doing?

"What a long strange trip its been." Trucken
We are cutting and splitting our dead ash trees.
In a normal year we burn 5 or 6 full cords. Great heat we also have a gas furnace which keeps us toasty.
Be safe CCF friends.

I have completed my audit of my coin collection - over 22,000 coins!

I've checked every single coin against the Excel worksheet on my computer. There were quite a few surprises - coins I'd bought but never recorded, a handful of coins I must have lost over the years, and quite a few coins I'd listed but didn't actually have - mostly because I'd entered the date in the worksheet in the column for the wrong denomination, not noticed a mintmark or variety or wrongly identified a worn coin...

Apart from updating my computer list, I've used a notebook someone gave me for Christmas last year to make a complete handwritten list that I can slip in my coat pocket and take to coin shops and coin fairs!



While doing my audit, I've rearranged a few of my albums and replaced some life-expired flips and 2x2s. I've made new labels for albums and storage boxes and also treated a number of coins with acetone, notably some I'd bought at the beginning of this year that had been stored in old PVC album pages. So I think I can say that my collection is better organised than it's been for years.

We got the hot tub, so I've taken advantage of it ;)



One of my neighbors got a new car, so he let me take it for a drive. I drove really really slow.

If you are prepping to go on Forged in Fire, you gotta start somewhere!

Came out of lockdown in late April,
Have been living a nearly normal life since then.
Australia hasn't had a COVID death since mid May.

Australia has been importing vaccines for about a month and giving about half of them away to our Pacific Island neighbors.
Now producing vaccines on shore for distribution to be available free to all Australians, and for free export to those countries most in need, who can't afford to buy them.

Personally, I have a normal life easy travel on public transport, which I use a lot at just max. limit of $2 per day, play table tennis twice a week, out on mid week car club runs one a week, attending church and spending lots of time with my friends as normal.
Also spend at least two hours per day here on the CCF, daytime in the U.S. but late at nite in Oz. Attending auction view days and coins shows again from next month.

As for stocked up toilet paper, I have enough to last for the next two years.

..from earlier, for whatever reason, when I edited my post my ipad was not allowing the dark side of the moon pic to load, so I had to go back & re-do. the four covers after dark side (above) have been done within the last two weeks. i"ll post pix of the thing once it's finished & totally unwrapped & untaped.

Other than work, my dogs, coins and TV (in that order). I have been building an wooden ship model 'Cutty Sark'. when finished it Will be about 4 feet long, 2.5 feet high, and 1.75 feet wide once all the masts yardarms and rigging is complete.
But my next step is one more coat of bright white paint for the inside bulk heads up on deck, Black above the water line, then copper pain below before I install all the copper plates that cover the bottom of the ship up to the water line.

Neat stuff people!
I made another knife. lol