As I write this message to the membership in early October, we are finally having our first seasonal drop in temperature in Houston. Always a welcome relief to this antique bottle collector. To me, Autumn means nice and more comfortable [...]
11 August 2014: The 2014 Lexington National has come and gone but it is still very much on many of our minds. Debriefing, accounting reports, web posts, image cataloging and the push to get an article in this issue of [...]
As you are reading this message, there is just about a month until our much anticipated FOHBC 2014 National Antique Bottle Show in Lexington, Kentucky. You will find a nice seven-page article, starting on page 26 within this issue, summarizing [...]
Spring has finally Sprung. What a winter! It is early April when I write this report and I have already been in storms in California, Kentucky and Texas this week and I see some areas will be getting tornadoes and [...]
This Sunday morning, the customary fire (at least this year) is present in the fire place and I watch for the first hints of morning as I nurse my coffee. I sit here waiting for everyone else (wife, grandchildren, sleep-over [...]
I am sitting here catching my breath and gathering my thoughts on a flight from Houston to Chicago. I’ll change planes at O’Hare for a smaller jet to Fort Wayne, Indiana so I can meet with my clients throughout the [...]
It is always interesting to straddle months and seasons during times of change. I started last week in the extreme heat in Houston and finished the week deep in the Sierra Mountains in Downieville, California with a morning mountain chill. [...]
Can you believe it? Another great National Show goes down in the record books. My head is still spinning with all of the great events and action. My hat is off and we sincerely need to thank all of those [...]
I think if I had the opportunity, in a parallel universe, or another life, I would be involved with weather forecasting and chasing storms in some form or another. Mother nature has always fascinated me and I imagine myself in [...]
I write this report today in April and notice that snowstorms and blizzards are in the forecast for the Rockies and tornadoes are projected in advance of a major weather front in the Plains.
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