Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Baroque-era music...my favorite by far!

 

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Just knocked off work, will have a bite and concentrate on where I would most likely have tucked the card for safekeeping. I think it has to be one of only two places. So I'll check there, then scan it and put it up here.

 

I always keep all my important items in special places so that when I'm looking for them later I'll remember where they...........wait, what was I just talking about?

 

I found the postcard - the cowboy one. (Just where it should logically have been - which is reassuring.) The message side of the postcard intrigues me as well as the front of the card (would we call the front the obverse?) because I have never figured who would have had this rather naughty postcard hanging around in that time. Or maybe that is the reason it was the last postcard available to send. I have tons of questions about the card, the purchaser, the sender, the recipient, the party....everything!! I see it was designed in 1908 and printed in Germany.




And I found another postcard I got while at an art exhibit in Australia in 2000 that still tickles me when I look at it. It's so silly looking.

 

First of all, what we have here is six cowboys, a length of rope and one lone woman...I'm not even going there.
As to the Asian gentleman marrying a horse, well, these are modern times and that's strictly his business.
Thank's so very much for sharing.
P.S. That the first card came from Germany is no surprise to me.

 

At some points in the past I've done a little so called "silver stacking". Basically I've bought some silver bullion and sold it later on when prices went higher or to buy something expensive I really needed (so it was a fun way to save/invest some money for when I needed it.)

I just started a small stack again. Not sure how long I'll keep it up or for what purpose the money might get used down the line... we'll see.

My first purchase of 16 ounces. I have another 6 ounces on the way.

 

That looks nice @Sallent.

 

You do realize that somewhere far off in the heavens a star had to give its life to create that silver. I think this definitely warrants a moment of interstellar silence.

 

I'm not sure 16 ounces of silver warrant that much silence, but this much gold (plus the professor's hair) definitely warrant that. Plus gold came from the same origin as silver, a collision between neutron stars.

I highly recommend the YouTube channel if you are curious about the different elements of the periodic table.

 

This Awesome Periodic Table Shows The Origins of Every Atom in Your Body
We are made of starstuff.

 

That's an awesome Swiss Army Knife! Magnificent!

 

I also make little doo dad sterling silver sculptures, rings, fishing bait knives and what nots:

 

That video with the awesomely coiffed Sir Professor was quite illuminating, or was that just the glitter of the gold getting in my eyes. Quite interesting and more than a bit dismaying: all of the gold stored there in that complex of London vaults adds up to far less than half the cost of the infamous Taxpayers' Wall Street Bailout of the 2008 Great Recession. Grrrrr... As a matter of fact, now that I mention it, just where the heck were all those fancy colliding neutron stars with their mutually explosive companions when we in the financial trenches really needed them most!

 

To paraphrase Tevye in "Fiddler..", May God bless and keep the colliding neutron stars... far away from us!

 

Speaking of gold, here is a fossil where the original organism's shell was replaced by pyrite (fool's gold).



And a trilobite



And two cystoid, my oldest fossils at 520,000,000 years old...found in Idaho in 1973 in a shale bed that's now closed to the public.



And my favorite ancient fossil type, rugose coral



I have more fossils, but I don't have any images and I've been too lazy to photograph them.

 

Are ye kidding me?

 

Ah, but just think of all those countless trillions of tons of just-created gold, platinum and palladium, all wasted out there in dark and cold space; oh, the humanity!

 

What the unholy flock is that for?

 

BATMAN?

 

Outstanding, without a doubt!