The Cantor Dimension (27 page)

So off I'd go to work leaving my husband a sticky note: "Don't kill the dog!" Being the first one home he had to encounter this wild-eyed bucking bronco literally mad with frenzy. He had to traverse a veritable minefield of puddles and poop to put a leash on her, and then somehow maneuver this frantic dog through the minefield and out into the yard without getting jumped on with potty feet.

The clean-up was my job and I spent an hour every evening scrubbing, hosing, washing toys, bones and other dog paraphernalia. Dakota was a lot of work those first weeks.

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Sneak Peek at Yankee, Go Home

Yankees flock to the sunny South where flowers bloom even in the middle of winter and summertime rules for most of the year. What nobody tells you is why the Yankees hightail it back North again.

Yankee Go Home exposes the gritty side of the South. Get lost in Arkansas and chased through Alabama by a madman. Find out who really won the Civil War and why. Come face to face with the Ku Klux Klan through the eyes of two tough, Yankee bikers. Meet up with a cop under the watchful eye of The Big Chicken. Discover the South through the eyes of a Yankee in this memoir of a Yankee in the South.

Get the answers to your most burning questions:
Does it snow in the South?
Are the bugs really bigger in the South?
What's the proper way to say hello?
What Southern delicacy is considered unmentionable?
What happens when a Yankee faces off with her Southern counterparts in the 1970s and 80s?

Excerpt from the book:

You'd think that the episode in Arkansas would have scared Dottie away from the South forever but it didn't. Shortly thereafter she moved to Memphis to be near her best friend Kim. Dottie should have had an inkling of what to expect as a Yankee down South during the drive to Memphis when Kim, a native of Tennessee, decided to prepare Dottie for life in the South.

"Hope you like mountain oysters," Kim sniggered.

"Mountain oysters? Never had 'em but I doubt I'll like them. I don't like seafood."

"Oh, you'll take a cotton to these babies! Mountain oysters aren't seafood anyway."

"They're not? What are they then?"

"Take a guess," Kim urged with a sly grin spreading across her face.

"Well, maybe it's some kind of clam that burrows in the dirt in the mountains?" Dottie offered, intent on her driving.

"Very good!" Kim congratulated her heartily. "You're gonna love mountain oysters! Trust me!"

They drove for several miles in silence. Kim was looking out the window facing away from Dottie and her whole body was shaking in silent laughter.

"Kim, what's so funny?"

"Oh God! I can't stand it!" Kim erupted into loud laughter. "Clams that burrow in the dirt! Oh God!"

"I don't get it."

"Mountain oysters are pig balls!" Kim howled.

"Pig balls? I still don't get it. What do you mean, pig balls?"

"You know, balls! You know what balls are, don't you?" Dottie frowned, still confused. Kim explained: "Balls! Testicles! The male sex organs of a pig!"

"Oh gross!" Dottie grimaced. "You don't really eat them, do you?"

"Sure! They're a real delicacy down South! I'll take you shopping at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store. You'll see!"

And so Dottie's sojourn in the South began. She'd been afraid to check out the Southern grocery stores wholly expecting to find the meat department to be stocked with nothing but pig balls and hog ears, hog jowls and intestines, cow tongues and ox tails, wing of bat and eye of newt and Granny looming large with a hickory switch.

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Sneak Peek at Wedding Anniversary Gifts for Coin Collectors

If you're married to a coin collector, a whole new world of gift shopping opens up when your wedding anniversary arrives. Every wedding anniversary has a specific category of gift associated with it, and there are two tables of gifts: Traditional and Modern.

The Modern table is skewed toward women who love jewelry, crystal and china glassware, and so forth. The Traditional gift table is down to earth and a lot more fun to work with. The first anniversary is paper, the second is cotton, followed by leather, flowers, wood, iron, and so forth.

This gift guide is specific to the Traditional table of wedding anniversary gifts and how you can give a coin collector gift that matches the anniversary table. From your 1st wedding anniversary to your 100th, you'll find gift suggestions for coin collectors herein. Where coins and paper money aren't available, we offer gold and silver bullion suggestions that match the gift table.

The Traditional gift table does not cover every year between 1 and 100; it has gaps starting in the 16th year. We filled those gaps from the Modern table and they are so notated with an asterisk*. When you get past 50 years, even the Modern table has gaps, which we've filled with the Traditional UK anniversary gifts, also noted with an asterisk*. In addition, once you get past 50 years, all of the anniversary gift tables start skipping years so that from 50-100, anniversaries come every five years.

While you can also find old stocks and bond certificates, and foreign paper money, this gift guide specifically focuses on U.S. coins and paper money, and gold and silver bullion as the primary options. This gift guide does NOT list novelty money such as million dollars bills or novelty coins.

Excerpt from the book:

24th Anniversary - Musical Instruments

On the surface, Musical Instruments sounds impossible but in coin collecting nothing is truly impossible. For example, you can give your spouse a 1936 Cincinnati Music Center of America silver half dollar of 90% silver/10% copper.

Or how about a Dolly Parton commemorative? You can get a .999 silver art bar that says "Music City Mint" along with "Dolly Parton", ".999 fine silver" and other markings. There are other Music City Mint silver art bars as well. In 1987, a .999 silver round commemorating the Cincinnati Music Hall was issued.

The Society of Medalists minted a .999 silver medal in 1973 of a tasteful naked person playing a guitar on one side, and a soldier carrying another soldier on the other. This was the 87th issue and "87th issue" is a potential keyword for this item.

The Vallejo Numismatic Society minted ...

[ chapter continues with several more suggestions ]

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