Hi friends,This post is an entry into the weekly Show Us Your California contest hosted by @thesocalhive where we share an aspect of our California.There are a lot of fun places to visit in Southern California and my son and I did an overnight stay in Irvine to visit the Irvine Spectrum - an outdoor mall and entertainment area. We stayed in a local hotel and walked to the action. Here is the view from our hotel room:

Hi friends,I received a great leather piece from my friend @summertooth , which has my name etched on it - check it out:To make sure it stay nice, I used a little leather conditioner on it:Yep, still easily holds 80 ounces of silver coins and rounds :)

Hi friends,This post is an entry into the weekly Show Us Your California contest hosted by @thesocalhive where we share an aspect of our California.My wife was going to be out doing some volunteer work one night so it was my turn to make dinner. I chose steak of course :)

Hi friends,Next magazine has arrived:Time to keep educating myself in hopes of a golden future. With gold on the rise and headed higher, I should be plenty motivated to get out there and do some prospecting… just need to finish baseball season so my 4 day a week coaching commitment is over!

Hi friends,This post is an entry into the weekly Show Us Your California contest hosted by @thesocalhive where we share an aspect of our California.Being a highly populated area, Southern California has many things for families to do, including various community events. My family took advantage of one such event recently and got some time outside time with the kids playing with lots of other kids:

Hi friends,I wanted to share an item from my precious metals stack and let you know why I am a holder. Today’s edition: some factional Aztec silver rounds:These are 1/10th ounce and I ordered a batch of 20 of them for two ounces total. I like to have fractionals around to give away now and then, and it doesn’t hurt to have some fractionals in the stack, so I grabbed these at spot +$7 so not terrible but also not a bargain compared to other generic silver rounds.