Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Happy Fourth of July

This weekend I had four days off from work. Discounting some unfortunately routine fits from son things and an ER visit went pretty well.

On Friday Meg and I took the kids to the doctor. She took Hazel to her one year appointment. She's doing just fine. Right now she weighs 21 lbs. 4 oz. I took Henry across the street to get his blood drawn. It wasn't a pretty sight. I struggled with him to get in the place, had to pin him down screaming during the procedure and afterwards had to restrain him so he wouldn't take off the bandage. The day turned around quickly, however, with a visit to our local U-Pick center for playground fun, a wagon ride and cherries. We went to celebrate Hazel's birthday that night.

Saturday went kind of the same. Some morning fits and then things weren't so bad. I took Henry and Hazel to the park, got Henry to swing by himself briefly and later in the day I took just Henry to a play date with his cousins.

On Sunday we went out to my in-laws. The kids were pretty excited about it. Unfortunately at a family reunion dinner, at a restaurant, Henry fell from his chair (before we ordered). It was a bad fall. He was screaming, bloody and had a really big lump on his head. The blood stopped pretty quickly (it was a bloody nose), but the bump took a while to go down. We took to the ER to have him checked out. There was lots and lots of screaming as all can imagine. We didn't get back to the dinner. By the late afternoon Henry was fine and a had a lot fun playing outside with his grandparents, aunt and uncle. He, Hazel and Meg were taken on a wagon ride by Pops and the tractor.

Monday was busy, but good. Meg and Nonnie took the kids to a fun playground in the morning and in the afternoon we went to a large family BBQ. The kids did really well at both events. Henry was totally content with box of cars he remembered were at the house and Hazel was delighted to watch the family dog. Both kids and parents left pretty exhausted. So exhausted we left Duck at Nonnies! Henry was not pleased.

8,000 halves had just five 40% silver halves (5 x 1967). In the bunch I found a pretty cool mint error coin, however. I think this coin is an example of a defective planchet. I can't see any tooling on the mark on the obverse and opposite this mark on the reverse is depressed spot.

5,000 pennies turned up one Indian Head (1883), thirty-three Wheats and forty Canadians. The Indian Head is one of the oldest US coins I've turned up. It's in better shape than the one I have in my album. :)

1924, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1940(2), 1941, 1942(2), 1944, 1946, 1947D, 1948D, 1949, 1950(2), 1950D, 1951(2), 1952D, 1953, 1954D, 1955(2), 1956, 1956D, 1957D(2), 1958

Found: 1 dime