This pretty mix of crystals is from Arkansas. It was a gift. As you can see it needs a good cleaning. I have this lovely mess in a vinegar bath. When I have it good and shiny, I’ll be sure to show you the final results.
SPARKLES!!
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PAIRS & TRIPLES
FUN with numbers
501 Area Code
Here you go, Arkansas!
Hard Pressed/stamped notes
Look up close to see
These new notes have the serial numbers pressed through to the reverse side. To see it clearly right click/ open image.
Dates on notes
These are meant for Numatics
Let’s have a look at these pretties.
First: Notice the J
Second: 06
J- June is the 6th month
These notes have June dates.
J06184872= June 18th of ’48 (1948) or ’72(1972) if we stretch it
J06184850= June 18th of ’48/’50 (1948 1950)
J06184851= June 18th of ’48/’51 (1948 1951)
J06184855= June 18th of ………..you got it….’48/’55 (1948 1955)
J06184856= June 18th of
J06184865= June 18th of……….you’re a pro by now.
J06184866
Wasn’t that fun?
B-Star note Galore
Here’s some of the special B star notes. I uploaded them at Silver Picker and thought it’d be nice to add them here. I highlighted ones with a twin out there in the big world.
Look at these!!
Fancy serial numbers +
Over the past year or so I began collecting money. I know! How in the world can I manage to do that thing called: Collecting. Collecting is associated with money, in one way or another. Given this mess the current administration put us in, collecting anything but late notices is an accomplishment.
Now, with each piece remember that money does not come free. There’s a catch. Always a catch. To collect money, one has to give something for it. Money! That’s right. And because it’s a collection I had to be sure not to cut myself short with buying money I wanted to save. See the issue?
I use every penny I have to buy a piece worth keeping. (There are a lot.) So, without further ado I want to share these treasures with you.
Look at how crisp this one is. Love the 5’s. If you look closely, you’ll see the ink from another bill it was made with.
Isn’t this one fun? Look on the left side of the image. Ink. 13111123
All of these pretties must stay together. They complement one another.
Fourths! 4 numbers on repeat!
Don’t look at me like that. I did not crunch this fun one.
WTH?!
I’m sitting here on my couch shaking my head and wondering who the hell came up with this…..
Two OR more races NOT Hispanic OR Latino
OR
White NOT Hispanic OR Latino
Questions on paperwork for a job or whatever these days…There’s other options as well but because I identify as umm…well….NEITHER one, I’m left out in the cold with what the hell to pick! So, basically if I select the color of my skin which is white, I can’t be Hispanic because I’m too pale? OR if I select Hispanic which is half of my nationality, I can’t be white because according to the options it’s just not freaking possible to be BOTH! I’m highly aggravated by this.
To whomever created that bullshit above to be included on just about everything we fill out these days, job applications, rental applications, credit applications, hell, even a store card like from the grocery store, they ask what the hell you are. WHAT does it matter? I ask ya.
OK, so it does have something to do with the law that every company must employ an equal amount of….I get that and that’s all fine and well but my bitch is why can’t I be both HISPANIC and WHITE?! Because WHITE IS just the color of the skin…Hispanic is ethnicity. WHITE is a color. Brown is a color. Black is a color. So, how do those either ors make any sense?
I AM both…I am Hispanic AND get this…though the color of my SKIN IS white I’m NOT white. UGH…OK, so I am however, Russian/Polish AND Hispanic…so technically I am OTHER on those forms because I refuse to identify as white when it’s just a color!!! Someone somewhere needs to change that whole freaking mess. I’m confused and there’s NO confused option to select.
River of Tears is based on a series of true events
In 2009 I took a step that changed me for the better, though some would disagree I’m sure. Matters not. I did it. I published my very first book. That’s something I’d wanted to do since I was a little girl.
River of Tears has been released. The final edition. I’ve learned a lot since I released it in 2009. I’ve become a stronger writer. One who knows how to make you feel, even if you don’t want to. I take pride in that ability. While I continue to grow as a writer, a story-teller, my River is one that I’m super proud of.
It’s about something that isn’t often written about. Not to say it hasn’t been done, I mean there’s all sorts of stories that deal with adults who come up missing and end up dead-mostly due to money, ransom issues. Not many of them, if any, have to do with that adults family being the nappers. This story is based off of true events and real people. In fact, I know the people very well. What’s between the covers of that story is one hell of a powerful testimony given to you by the people who lived it.
Recently, the man who took a secondary role in the story, Brad is his name, died last month. His real name was Johnny. His part in the story is real. And before I sent the book to print, I revised it and added a memorial at the end of the story….Here’s the picture of the people this story is about: 
Well, in part…the guy at the left is Caiden, and the story was inspired by the events in his real life. The guy on the right is Brad, Caiden’s best friend in the story, and in real life, Franks best friend, Johnny.
One friend is all we need to get from point A to Z. One friend who knows you better than you know yourself. One friend to make you laugh when you need to cry. One friend to hold you up when all you want to do is fall. One friend. That’s who Johnny was to and for Frank. And, yes, it was the other way as well. They were best friends. They had each others backs. Then they grew up and went their ways, but in the end, it’s the picture you see, they never stopped being best friends to the end.
River of Tears isn’t about Brad, but he plays a big part in it. River of Tears is about adult kidnapping. And when I say kidnapping I mean kidnapping. Physically. But have you thought about emotional kidnapping? Yeah, that does exist and that is what I lived through….So, to read this story is to read some of my life. What’s true and what’s not? Interesting, right?
River of Tears is about a woman’s struggle as she searches for her missing husband, which leads to shocking revelations about him, his family, and the crime of adult kidnapping.
Abby meets Caiden when she is sixteen years old at nineteen they marry and after seven years of marriage it ends. She is left alone with her children and the bloody clothes Caiden was last seen in.
Knowing her husband isn’t dead, Abby begins a search that takes her from Arizona to Arkansas and lasts for a span of eight years.
More determined than ever to locate her husband, before he’s killed, Abby hires a private investigator who opens the doors to Caiden’s private world of hell.
Buy Link: River of Tears
Michele L. Montgomery 