Snowy RCC?

In a recent message oly wrote:

On Feb 7, 10:18*am, Tony Clayton wrote:
In a recent message Jud wrote:

Tee hee!!! * Sun shining brightly in Maine, most snow melted last
week. Didn't get a flake this time around. I find it humorous when
southern climes get what we are famous for. Washington DC has gotten
more snow this season than we got all of our last season.

Jud - the Gloater

Just damp and miserable here in the UK.

We have had a svere winter by our standards, but still nothing compared with 1947,
1963 and 1979.

Mind you, the country nearly ran out of gas...(not gasoline, for US readers,
but natural gas used for heating by most of the country)

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I had heard about the close call on the natural gas in the UK, but
have heard the situation has improved since. Yes??? Hope so.

oly

Demand was very high in the period when the country was blanketed in snow.
Since then it has generally been much milder, but more cold is forecast

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On Feb 7, 11:37*am, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
oly wrote:
On Feb 6, 8:55 pm, "Bruce Remick" wrote:
Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much RCC
action this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day
shoveling and the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50'
driveway in the N. Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk
tomorrow. No snow plow yet. Fifty years ago, this would have brought
out the local kids competing to earn good money. But today most
70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at least around here, while
those local kids relax inside apparently counting the money and
blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

We had a snowy morning in Central IL on Friday about 2-3 inches in the
morning and another 1 inch overnight, the temperature right at
freezing all day and night. *The IL Department of Transportation did
an EXCELLENT JOB of keeping the roads salted and I was able to do a 75
mile each-way round trip (Springpatch to near Macomb) with no real
problems.

It used to be that a person could go to small-to-medium sized coin
shows every weekend from the end of October to the end of March, with
Christmas and New Years excepted. *No more, almost all of those shows
are gone (the majority of the former attendees are deceased too). *A
decent coin show next weekend in STL, but unless some misc. cash comes
in early, I probably won't attend.

I used go to a lot of those shows, including the long-defunct East Kumquat
Annual Coin-a-Rama, but I don't remember them being quite that frequent.
Depending on how far one cared to drive, maybe every other week. *Of course,
an SMSA north of you still supports a 1st, a 2nd, a 3rd, and a 4th Sunday
show, but most of them amount to very little these days, and I'm surprised
that any of them have survived. *Most of the material offered for sale has
gotten quite long in the tooth, and it's not worth the trip.

The show in Springpatch at the end of March is always good though.

James the Less-Traveled- Hide quoted text -

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The Springpatch show remains quite strong - it gets the Central IL
dealers, the STL dealers, some dealers from C-U and Peoria and the
Quad Cities. In the last three years, this show has been really
good. This last show (November '09) there were a few empty tables for
the first time in a long time (and they might have been sold, the
gents just didn't show for some reason).

The sponsor club is also well known offering a really wide inventory
of new numismatic books at a moderate discount. If it is a reasonable
drive, no hotels required, it is very well worth attending (and it is
only 7 or 8 minutes drive for me).

oly

"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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mazorj wrote:
"Ken Barr" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Bruce Remick" wrote:

Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much
RCC
action
this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day
shoveling and the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50'
driveway in the N. Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk
tomorrow. No snow plow yet. Fifty years ago, this would have
brought out the local kids competing to earn good money. But
today
most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently
counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

My condolences on your weather. Itz been terrible here in San
Jose
this morning as well ... a lite sprinkle of rain to ruin the day!

Tomorrow will be a tough day too ... do I spend four hours driving
up to the mountains to go skiing, or spend a half hour driving
over
to the beach to go surfing? Choices, choices ...

[NB: Don't I wish! I neither ski nor surf, and will most likely
spend all day tomorrow inside imaging lots for eBay! Ah, the life
of an idle koin deeler!]

Remind us again of California's four seasons... something like
Wind,
Mudslides, Wildfires, and Earthquakes? :-D

Oooo, nice cut!

I wouldn't call it a cut, just a casual observation to put things into
perspective. My brother in Florida does the same thing, "casually"
mentioning the sunny temps, the beach, the babes. So I casually
inquire into his well-being after each hurricane, forward grotesque
news stories involving alligators, and send him pictures of snow every
Christmas.

On 2/7/2010 10:06 AM, Tom Wayne wrote:

I'm born and raised here in the Los Angeles area and have never seen
snow fall before. Have been in snow in the local mountains after it
has fallen, but have never actually seen it come down. Have seen
plenty of rain, though, especially in recent days!

I drove to LA in the mid 80's with my family, on a trip to mouse land.
we had one day of rain, one day of sun, then it snowed 5". had to stay
an extra day because Grapevine had slush on it when we tried to head North.
AKLarry

On 2/7/2010 10:06 AM, Tom Wayne wrote:

I'm born and raised here in the Los Angeles area and have never seen
snow fall before. Have been in snow in the local mountains after it
has fallen, but have never actually seen it come down. Have seen
plenty of rain, though, especially in recent days!

I drove to LA in the mid 80's with my family, on a trip to mouse land.
we had one day of rain, one day of sun, then it snowed 5". had to stay
an extra day because Grapevine had slush on it when we tried to head North.
AKLarry

Yes, the Grapevine is always a problem when a big rainstorm passes
through L.A. I don't think it has snowed in Los Angeles proper or its
immediate suburbs in over 50 years. The problem in the Los Angeles
basin is that it is coldest when there are no clouds. The temp in L.A.
can dip down to freezing once or twice per year, but only when it is
clear. When it is overcast, the temperature is seldom below 40
degrees.

"Ken Barr" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Bruce Remick" wrote:

Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much RCC
action
this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day shoveling and
the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50' driveway in the N.
Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk tomorrow. No snow plow yet.
Fifty years ago, this would have brought out the local kids competing to
earn good money. But today most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves,
at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently
counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

My condolences on your weather. Itz been terrible here in San Jose this
morning as well ... a lite sprinkle of rain to ruin the day!

I envy you at the moment, but I still think I'd prefer the rare natural dump
in Virginia than the variety of disasters many Californians have to worry
about.


Tomorrow will be a tough day too ... do I spend four hours driving up to
the mountains to go skiing, or spend a half hour driving over to the
beach to go surfing? Choices, choices ...

Take the beach. It's closer.

"Tom Wayne" wrote in message
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Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much RCC action
this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day shoveling and
the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50' driveway in the N.
Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk tomorrow. No snow plow yet.
Fifty years ago, this would have brought out the local kids competing to
earn good money. But today most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.


I'm born and raised here in the Los Angeles area and have never seen
snow fall before. Have been in snow in the local mountains after it
has fallen, but have never actually seen it come down. Have seen
plenty of rain, though, especially in recent days!

Just recall what you saw in the mountains and envision it having drifted
down to the ground in small pieces. That's poetry. Except for this week in
the Mid-Atlantic area.

On Feb 7, 4:30*pm, "mazorj" wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message

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mazorj wrote:
"Ken Barr" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Bruce Remick" wrote:

Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? *Not much
RCC
action
this weekend. *If you're like me, you spent part of the day
shoveling and the other part recuperating. *24+ inches on my 50'
driveway in the N. Virginia suburbs. *I'll tackle the sidewalk
tomorrow. *No snow plow yet. Fifty years ago, this would have
brought out the local kids competing to earn good money. *But
today
most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently
counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

My condolences on your weather. *Itz been terrible here in San
Jose
this morning as well ... a lite sprinkle of rain to ruin the day!

Tomorrow will be a tough day too ... do I spend four hours driving
up to the mountains to go skiing, or spend a half hour driving
over
to the beach to go surfing? *Choices, choices ...

[NB: *Don't I wish! *I neither ski nor surf, and will most likely
spend all day tomorrow inside imaging lots for eBay! *Ah, the life
of an idle koin deeler!]

Remind us again of California's four seasons... something like
Wind,
Mudslides, Wildfires, and Earthquakes? *:-D

Oooo, nice cut!

I wouldn't call it a cut, just a casual observation to put things into
perspective. *My brother in Florida does the same thing, "casually"
mentioning the sunny temps, the beach, the babes. *So I casually
inquire into his well-being after each hurricane, forward grotesque
news stories involving alligators, and send him pictures of snow every
Christmas.- Hide quoted text -

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Two Wednesdays back, every banker in Central Illinois wanted to show
me their forwarded e-mails - where some fellow down in Florida
(formerly) made a living by fishing stray golf balls out of ponds on
the local fairways. In this e-mail, a gator had orally removed the
fellow's arm. They was bloody photos, fer sure. It looked painful
enough.

Happily, the local authorities shot the gator, retrieved the arm. I
suppose that attempting to surgically re-attach the arm will only cost
the equivalent of 50 to 100 to 200 years of potential profits from
retrieving golf balls.

Snow and ice are good.

oly

oly wrote:
On Feb 7, 4:30 pm, "mazorj" wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message

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mazorj wrote:
"Ken Barr" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Bruce Remick" wrote:

Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much
RCC
action
this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day
shoveling and the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50'
driveway in the N. Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk
tomorrow. No snow plow yet. Fifty years ago, this would have
brought out the local kids competing to earn good money. But
today
most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently
counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

My condolences on your weather. Itz been terrible here in San
Jose
this morning as well ... a lite sprinkle of rain to ruin the day!

Tomorrow will be a tough day too ... do I spend four hours driving
up to the mountains to go skiing, or spend a half hour driving
over
to the beach to go surfing? Choices, choices ...

[NB: Don't I wish! I neither ski nor surf, and will most likely
spend all day tomorrow inside imaging lots for eBay! Ah, the life
of an idle koin deeler!]

Remind us again of California's four seasons... something like
Wind,
Mudslides, Wildfires, and Earthquakes? :-D

Oooo, nice cut!

I wouldn't call it a cut, just a casual observation to put things
into perspective. My brother in Florida does the same thing,
"casually" mentioning the sunny temps, the beach, the babes. So I
casually inquire into his well-being after each hurricane, forward
grotesque news stories involving alligators, and send him pictures
of snow every Christmas.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Two Wednesdays back, every banker in Central Illinois wanted to show
me their forwarded e-mails - where some fellow down in Florida
(formerly) made a living by fishing stray golf balls out of ponds on
the local fairways. In this e-mail, a gator had orally removed the
fellow's arm. They was bloody photos, fer sure. It looked painful
enough.

Happily, the local authorities shot the gator, retrieved the arm. I
suppose that attempting to surgically re-attach the arm will only cost
the equivalent of 50 to 100 to 200 years of potential profits from
retrieving golf balls.

Snow and ice are good.

Désolé, mon copain, on t'a eu:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/golferarm.asp

James

On Feb 7, 8:55*pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
oly wrote:
On Feb 7, 4:30 pm, "mazorj" wrote:
"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message

...

mazorj wrote:
"Ken Barr" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Bruce Remick" wrote:

Are most of you folks out there snowed in easterners? Not much
RCC
action
this weekend. If you're like me, you spent part of the day
shoveling and the other part recuperating. 24+ inches on my 50'
driveway in the N. Virginia suburbs. I'll tackle the sidewalk
tomorrow. No snow plow yet. Fifty years ago, this would have
brought out the local kids competing to earn good money. But
today
most 70-year-olds have to do it themselves, at
least around here, while those local kids relax inside apparently
counting
the money and blackberry Ipods their parents give them.

My condolences on your weather. Itz been terrible here in San
Jose
this morning as well ... a lite sprinkle of rain to ruin the day!

Tomorrow will be a tough day too ... do I spend four hours driving
up to the mountains to go skiing, or spend a half hour driving
over
to the beach to go surfing? Choices, choices ...

[NB: Don't I wish! I neither ski nor surf, and will most likely
spend all day tomorrow inside imaging lots for eBay! Ah, the life
of an idle koin deeler!]

Remind us again of California's four seasons... something like
Wind,
Mudslides, Wildfires, and Earthquakes? :-D

Oooo, nice cut!

I wouldn't call it a cut, just a casual observation to put things
into perspective. My brother in Florida does the same thing,
"casually" mentioning the sunny temps, the beach, the babes. So I
casually inquire into his well-being after each hurricane, forward
grotesque news stories involving alligators, and send him pictures
of snow every Christmas.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Two Wednesdays back, every banker in Central Illinois wanted to show
me their forwarded e-mails - where some fellow down in Florida
(formerly) made a living by fishing stray golf balls out of ponds on
the local fairways. *In this e-mail, a gator had orally removed the
fellow's arm. *They was bloody photos, fer sure. *It looked painful
enough.

Happily, the local authorities shot the gator, retrieved the arm. *I
suppose that attempting to surgically re-attach the arm will only cost
the equivalent of 50 to 100 to 200 years of potential profits from
retrieving golf balls.

Snow and ice are good.

D sol , mon copain, on t'a eu:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/golferarm.asp

James- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Mais, zut alors, mon copain, nobody ever said it weren't difficult to
fool bankers, or for that matter, bank examiners.

And every one of the bankers was just back from a quick trip to
Florida, to boot.

oly