Sweeps Season

Snow has fallen periodically on our homestead since Halloween. Most days it briefly covers the new solar panels, then melts away without needing our help. The night of November 13th we got several inches and a hard freeze. The next morning, I went out to sweep snow off our new array for the first time (see Power Shift: The Plan in Place).

It's a bigger job than it used to be! (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger.)

It’s a bigger job than it used to be! (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger.)

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Silver Hunting: Coin or “Junk” Silver

Previously in this series on silver hunting, I wrote about collecting silver against the possibility of a future “soft collapse” in the economy (see Silver Hunting for a Less-Than-Ideal Future).

After jewelry and keepsakes, mentioned in the last post, coins with silver content can still be found circulating in our country.

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