GL
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The buggy house in my backyard was where my great grandfather parked his buggy. The horse stable is just past it on the treeline and has fallen. Anyways, after he bought a T Model Ford around 1921, that was where he parked his car and it was where the houses cars have been parked ever since.
When I moved in I fenced in the back for the dogs and the old buggy house became the dogs house. I have built an enclosure inside for them and the rest is lazy shade for hot days. Every year this thing must be raked, cleaned out, dusted with flea powder and relined with cedar chips then bedding hay. In that order. It takes a week to season this building against three dogs worth of fleas, mites, bugs, critters and whatnot. Heaven forbid you attempt to wash it out because the fleas hatch and the rest of the year is insane with billions of fleas. The only formula is raking, removing debris, powdering and layered bedding.
Today the raking started. The dust is insane and suffocating. I start in the back corner and make my way to the front and on out into the yard. I get about 10 minutes into this and see a disc in the dust. Unfortunately I was mid rake when I saw it and raked over it. I tried looking and it was gone. No problem I figure, it's probably just a bottlecap and I keep on truckin. I make it to the front with the raked pile and I see it again. A disc. A silvery disc...
I instantly know what it is when I see it in the light. A nice, shiny quarter made in 1930. It doesn't look like it was in circulation for very long. I yell for the wife and tell her I found a quarter. She asks what year and I say 1930. She says "cool". When I finally get inside and show her she is more impressed.
Why isn't modern money this attractive?
When I moved in I fenced in the back for the dogs and the old buggy house became the dogs house. I have built an enclosure inside for them and the rest is lazy shade for hot days. Every year this thing must be raked, cleaned out, dusted with flea powder and relined with cedar chips then bedding hay. In that order. It takes a week to season this building against three dogs worth of fleas, mites, bugs, critters and whatnot. Heaven forbid you attempt to wash it out because the fleas hatch and the rest of the year is insane with billions of fleas. The only formula is raking, removing debris, powdering and layered bedding.
Today the raking started. The dust is insane and suffocating. I start in the back corner and make my way to the front and on out into the yard. I get about 10 minutes into this and see a disc in the dust. Unfortunately I was mid rake when I saw it and raked over it. I tried looking and it was gone. No problem I figure, it's probably just a bottlecap and I keep on truckin. I make it to the front with the raked pile and I see it again. A disc. A silvery disc...
I instantly know what it is when I see it in the light. A nice, shiny quarter made in 1930. It doesn't look like it was in circulation for very long. I yell for the wife and tell her I found a quarter. She asks what year and I say 1930. She says "cool". When I finally get inside and show her she is more impressed.
Why isn't modern money this attractive?
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(OH. Forgot to add, have your wife ready to check you over, head to toe, inside and out 
for ticks)
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