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As I had posted last January, Stacy and I attended the 100th anniversary reenactment of the founding of our adopted County. While we were there freezing it was told of a commemorative Troy Ounce coin to be issued and the orders started that day. I got a sign up order form and the following Monday I ordered and paid for the coin. It had an initial run lower cost so I was glad to jump on it and save a bit as well as get the coin.  Well, as you can see above the coin was available for pickup yesterday afternoon, (05/19/15) so I walked over and got the one in the photo above. It is actually larger than I thought it might be with the large Kennedy half dollar coin fitting inside the center ring of the design. It is also fairly thick and came in its own protective case as you can see. I like it! A piece of the 'new' history of our little area of the world! The three designs in the center of the coin are small renditions of the three art deco panels on the front of the Cou...

A Little Shakin' Goin On We experienced a taste of California on Thursday, April 24th. There were several earthquakes that happened that night to the next day, but Stacy and I only felt two of them. First one was about 7:30 pm, I was standing in the bathroom, Stacy in bed, and a rumble along with rolling lasted for quite a bit of time. Things rattled but nothing fell and there was no damage. A few minutes after and I went looking online for any reports because we were pretty certain it was in fact a quake. Stacy was certain and said it was a quake during the event. I knew it was also but still wanted to make sure since the only other thing it could have been would have been an oil train crash in town and possible subsequent explosion, so I wanted to confirm! I did find information but it originally gave the location as in the vicinity of Hayden Lake, which is about 65 miles South of this area. Initially it was reported to be a 4.1 magnitude quake but a few days later it had be...