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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
As I mentioned in the roundup, we all were at my wife's oceanside quilting retreat. I came down to watch my daughter for the weekend, and our main activity on Saturday was going to the Virginia Aquarium.
It was quite a treat: 700,000 gallons of aquarium as well as sprinklings of ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
I was up in NY for a long weekend with my parents and other relatives, and came back to VA today. On the way back I stopped at a coin shop we had passed several times, and got a chance to look inside.
The owner was buying a collection of coins ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Bob over at ChristianPF questions whether it was wise for the powers that be to allow the US Mint to proceed with its minting of four commemorative Lincoln cents to honor the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
I'm not totally convinced that the new designs will be in widespread circulation. ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Over Christmas I found a Hawaii quarter, which is the fiftieth quarter in the State Quarters series from the US Mint. We got home late Thursday and amongst all of the unpacking we punched out the last circle in the map and put Hawaii in.
We looked it over for about ...
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