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Seeing your bi-color Alox is always enjoyable for me, José!
Captivating canoe!
Jeff, that's a cool photo looking down through the many holes in the body of your guitar!Schrade 233, medium Klein, and Wenger along with today's guitar for church.
It's ONE for the money,
TWO for the show,
THREE to get ready,
Now go, Squirrel, go!
After I cleaned up my keyboard, this sent me on a pointless search...
...or was it?
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Interesting info, ED!GaryPeregrin - You might be interested in this. I posted it in a thread back in August 2014.
Up through the 1960s, if you were on board a ship, the U.S. Navy paid off in $2 bills. So come payday, we'd line up at the disbursing office and were paid with $2 bills. It was possible because we didn't make much money in those days. I was a Seaman (E-3) in 1965 aboard the USS Henley (DD 762) and my pay was roughly $90.00 per month. Anyway, after taxes, I got about $42.00 every two weeks so every payday I got 21 $2 bills. The Navy did this for the U.S. Treasury in an attempt at keeping the $2 bill in circulation. Didn't work in the long run but you could tell when it was a Navy payday as all of a sudden $2 bills would start showing up around town.
I don't remember seeing $2 bills until they were a "new" currency in 1976. So to learn what I was missing, I found this Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_two-dollar_bill#
Turns out they were first printed in 1862 and continued until 1966. (During that time, they were printed with several different designs in many different currency forms that I know nothing about: United States Note, National Bank Note, Silver Certificate, Treasury Note, Federal Reserve Bank Note.) Then no more $2 bills were printed until 1976, when they started up again and continue to be printed since then.
My experience with $2 bills has been mostly with the Kentucky Derby. I attended the Derby in 1972, 1973, and 1975-84 IIRC. Back then, I think there were 10 races each Derby Day, with the famous Kentucky Derby itself being the 8th race. Starting in 1976, I'd go to the bank a few days before the Derby to get 10 $2 bills so I could make a $2 Show bet on each of the 10 races.
Such a lovely stag Le Thiers!...
I really enjoyed your wildlife photos, Jeff! And Beni is also a Wild Thing that makes my heart sing!Thanks to all for the positive input on the hawk. Actually, I can't decide either, and there may have been one of each. This one was farther away,
but I think he was a Cooper's while the closeups were of a Goshawk. The Cooper's saw something and went after it.
I had other visitors to the backyard . . .
And yes, he found a way in.
And to stay with the thread, Beni is going back to work this morning.
The checkered handle on your Rosecraft Sodbuster is awesome, Dan!A cold and rainy day here in the City by the Bay. Took Louie out to do his business and he quickly peed and ran back inside. Just a little light rain but you’d think that it was a monsoon to Lou. Anyway keeping me company with a nod to Micarta Monday these two beauties. Have a great week folks!
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Best wishes to you and Louie; are the two of you still temporarl "batchelors"?
That's joy-inducing jigging on that jack!
Handsome sowbelly stockman (but aren't they all?)
- GT
