It’s October, I’m pulling out my black chest of the fall season shiny. So I’ll have to get to my latest garden adventures in another time.
“Black birds tend to like shiny things.” ~ The Bloody Raven
I just want to assure my followers that I am still in the land of the living. 2023 to 2024 has been no doubt a tough year for me. Life’s adversities have again knocked the wind out of my sails and I need to work my way back. There are a bunch of half-baked posts sitting on the back burner that were supposed be posted over the last month but motivation, health and energy has been in short supply.
My latest chapter has given me further incentive to reclaim my health back and get my mind out of the fog. I’ve always enjoyed the fall season and I hope to leverage that into a measurable recovery mode. I’ve already got a lineup of Halloween silver including some Monarch bars and the new 2024 Scottsdale silver for this harvest month. Then finish off those old half-baked posts in November. At least that’s the plan.
Kicking off with the Postal Express mint
Colby Brewer is the founder, artist and proprietor of the Postal Express mint in Idaho, pouring his way into the Art bar and silver stacking community since the spring of 2019.
He does have a presence on Meta and Instagram but knowing some of you are not fans of either of these Big Tech social websites there is always his Postal Express Mint website where he hangs his silver minting shingle, mind you that the website is Under Construction. After perusing his Instagram page you will get a good idea of his humorous art style.
There are two styles of this fun Halloween bar, the first one as a milled One troy ounce standard sized silver bar, and the 5 troy oz. poured bar version in a collaboration with Kevin Bailey of Mutiny Metals. I don’t think there is a colorized version.
Often relegated as generic and clearance item silver, Art bars like these are intended as gifts for special occasions and holiday gift giving. Other Art bar themes include graduation, birthdays, anniversaries, special events etc. and often including a characteristic space to engrave a personal message or name. In the past I tried to encourage a friend to Stack some of her future savings to no avail. I sometimes wondered how she’s doing.
Once again my gratitude to Nyssacat for this fun Halloween themed art bar as a surprise gift, he’s even got this engraved with my name too. 💋
What Happened?
“It is not cancer.” Said my Physician much to my relief after the testing and imaging results. “It looks like Cholecystitis, you got a heck of a collection of gall stones plugging up things causing the pain and nausea.”
Fast forwarding.
I must have been really out-to-lunch for the few days following my surgery I was still wearing these things. Hmmm, I wonder if the jelly middle uses any colloidal silver?
My latest ordeal placed a lot more anxiety and worry on my eldest son. Following the loss of his Grandmother and my best friend in the last year, then seeing me in such a fragile and weak state, he admitted being very afraid of losing me. The cold reality is that we couldn’t guarantee being around next month or even the year, but we talked, hugged and promised to spend more time together, and God willing be together as long as we can. 💖
Living in the now.
Stacking Hive, Precious metals and love for those dark stormy days!
The #piratesunday tag is the scurvy scheme of Captain 
References & Sources
Photos are my own shot with an ancient 2018 Samsung SM-A530W or otherwise indicated.
P. Image under Pixabay
W. Wiki Commons
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Cameo Raven Brooch from The Black Wardrobe.
