A penny-smashing first...for me, anyway

skidspoppe is living in Hungary these days, teaching and enjoying living in Europe. One of the ways he's enjoying his time there is by smashing coinage. This weekend in the mail, I received a smashed forint from St. Stephen Bassilica in Budapest. And what is shown on this Hungarian elongated coin? A relic: a severed hand. This is a first for me: a disembodied limb on a smashed coin. It's unsettling, but the forint makes an awfully nice elongated coin, doesn't it? Lookit that pretty golden color!



At some point, I should post about some of the ECs jackwilliambell brought me back from Australia. Some of them are really cool and interesting.

An autumn Sunday

After a week that would try anyone's patience, I spent Saturday catching up on housekeeping. I took four shopping bags full of books to the University Bookstore and came away with nearly $100 in credit. I donated another bag of books to Goodwill. I prepped and put away the lovely batch of elongated coins that jackwilliambell brought me from Australia; I still have many others to put away, but these were a priority. I did laundry and dishes. Isn't my life exciting? It was all actually very satisfying.

For being such a virtuous girl, I got to spend Sunday with Jack and his grandson R at Craven Farm in Snohomish, exploring their corn maze, poking around their pumpkin patch and, in general, enjoying a lovely autumn day. Pics here. I came home with a sugar pumpkin for a seasonal decoration as well as a pair of seasonal dishtowels with black cats on them--also very satisfying as they were inexpensive but quite sweet.

So it was, all in all, a fine weekend. The week's begun with a decent Monday. Here's hoping it continues.