...and we've had our 6 more weeks of winter in a day and a half. But this is a coin journal entry!

Hi everyone,

Well, it's a very, VERY white Groundhog's day here in southeastern Iowa. And before I go any further, my sympathy to the mideast and east who are probably getting the storm now that we had late Monday and yesterday.

I have finally (with a little help from a friend) cleared some snow in front of my garage and a path made to my side garage door. We received somewhere around 16-18 inches the last day and a half. Of course, the wind was awful, and my deck has a 3 foot drift covering it. I don't really use my front door, so I figure it can sit and melt, but I needed to be able to back my cars from the garage, and a path for the paper lady and anyone who comes to visit. The wind swirls around my deck and driveway, so there were BIG drifts. I took a couple days vacation, fortunately where I work hasn't been too busy, so everything has worked out.

The good thing about snow storms and blizzards is I can sit warm and snug in my house (I was worried about a power outage for about a half hour last night, fortunately it didn't happen). And what better thing to do than look at my coins and currency, take pictures and enjoy our wonderful hobby. (See, I said this would be a coin journal entry.)

In my journals last week, I told about my purchases. One coin I forgot to mention was an 1879S Morgan dollar graded MS64. I have and 1879S already (MS65) but this particular coin was a Gold Reward perk from Teletrade. My points were getting up there, and after a year you lose them if you don't use them. So I redeemed some for coin, and promptly put it in my Wild West Silver & Gold from San Francisco custom set. I'm very happy with it, but I do need to say I love Morgan dollars.

Also, I've been working on scanning my currency. I'm going to straighten some more images today, and hopefully within a few days have a custom set of World Currency set up. One of the first items that will be added is my 1908 German 100 mark note I purchased from Teletrade.

The pic of the entry today is the reverse of the Morgan dollar, you can see both sides in my custom set.