William

Stay safe out there Chad...don't need nor want you or the pup bouncing off the sidewalk! We still have the wind here, in fact it increased through the night, woke me up a couple times with that wicked howling! I can still hear all my wind chimes out back banging around all the way in the living room! It's definitely a white out situation out in the open areas today I bet!

Nice, love em'! Some of my favorite marbles have "seedy" glass and your tables are right at the top with them...something you don't see every day for sure. Oh yeah, a shoutout to Richard's Sanitation as I see that they are represented in the background 🤣🤣

Looking like Master IMO...

Thinking that the first two are Master also..the last marble, I want to say Akro. By the way, like the backdrop for your pictures at the top 👍

Having issues uploading the videos too this thread, but anyway one shows the smoke just billowing past through my friends backyard. And the other, taken after sundown, shows the smoke rising from the building. I was just told that 3 of the 5 apartments were rented out upstairs, a young man who worked at the Kwik Trip across the street, a couple, and a young girl. They all made it out but sadly some pets were lost in the fire. She just sent me this post....

I posted this story in the Christmas thread, but I think I will add the pictures here, as this accident was more than likely cold weather related. The old hardware store as it burned and what's left of it in Spring Grove MN... I got off work and drove into Spring Grove see everything blocked off. I just received these pictures and videos from a friend who lives right behind Main Street, directly behind this stretch of buildings. The video itself is kinda far away, it's as close as they would let anyone get as they had entire blocks sealed off. Plus it was freezing so it's from inside. First the pictures....all that's left. The hardware store actually consisted of two buildings joined together. The building you see frozen is the left hand side of the rubble. This is where Mulqueens Hardware sold its Napa auto accessories. I was told today that it started shortly before the lunch hour and that Spring Grove decided to try and fight it themselves. My goodness, why would you wait? Caledonia, about 8 miles too the east, they didn't get called until shortly after 3pm. I know this because I was outside starting my car when I heard and saw them heading west towards Spring Grove. Wow

Looking like Vitro's from what I can see? The second mib not 100% on that but leaning Vitro...

It is indeed a very nice marble. I'm curious about it's origin myself 😊👍

Thinking Jabo....

Happy Akro Friday 😊

The sub zero temperatures are only forecasted too last a few days then by Wednesday next week were looking at almost 40 degrees!?! Minnesota being crazy as usual...

That would be cool 👍

A frigid day, forecasted too be 6 degrees warmer today, up to a balmy-1 (and that's the air temperature).... My back deck area...my neighborhood with my driveway in the foreground...a large red headed Woodpecker braving the temps and bitter wind chills for some suet...and underneath a chair by my backdoor a Dark Eyed Junco seeking shelter as it and others feed in the backyard.

Your welcome! Maybe crashbelt will comment on your board ( and the "M"'s), as this variety of collecting is right up his alley

Nice score indeed! Your first German score is a nice one. You Go Girl 😁

Sadly, another area town gets struck with bad luck. I went out to start my car shortly after 3pm in the parking lot when I heard sirens and saw the Caledonia (the town I work in) fire department heading out of town to the west. I've probably said before that I live 17 miles to the West of Caledonia, and the one town I pass through on Highway 44 on the way home is Spring Grove. I have posted pictures of this town before. Well, as I approached Spring Grove from the east, I saw smoke. At first I thought it was the furnace at the school belching out exhaust, which it does in large clouds. But as I entered town, I saw what it was. Main Street (or 44 as it goes straight through town) was blocked off from one end to the other. Multiple squad cars from the county and state were present, along with multiple fire departments from a few towns. One of the buildings in the Center of town was on fire. I could see the smoke seeping from cracks all around the roof and saw the flames reaching easily 20-30 feet above the roof. It was the building that houses the hardware store, a 2 story building right in the middle of town. And if anyone knows old towns, you'll know that all these old buildings are sandwiched together. Furthermore, upstairs there are 5 apartments. Not sure if they are still used for rentals but the big southwest apartment was the one that I rented for 6 years before buying my current home 21 years ago. Back then it was Bjerke's True Value Hardware. In recent years it switched ownership and became Mulqueens True Value Hardware. As of 8pm last night, it was still burning. I know it's extremely difficult to battle fires in this kind of weather. I can only hope and pray that the neighboring buildings escaped with minimal or no damage and that if the apartments upstairs were occupied, that the occupants made it out safely. What a string of events, all within a few miles of each other! C'mon everyone, let's see your Christmas posts! Holiday colors and lights are in order here 🎄

Sorry! I slept through what snow we did get, which isn't near what was forecast, and the wind didn't really pick up significantly until after hours last night. Nothing video-worthy. I did see a double rainbow on the way home from work, and what was cool was that both were huge and in different spots. One was in the southwest and the other northwest. And neither had any sort of curve. Just straight up until cut off. Would have been my only video perhaps but had my hands full with the crappy roads!

Peltier Rainbo IMO 😊

Some Japanese transitional marbles had me thinking pretty hard too as they can "cork" a bit too...

From this picture, they all appear to be Vitro to me...might need a few more close ups/individual shots? We'll see 😊👍

I'll drop in some videos sometime soon, along with some pictures 👍

Very Informative thread. Enjoyed it 👍😊

Gonna be interesting here too. Somewhat of a clearer picture on how things are playing out. Heavy snow overnight Wednesday for us here in southeast Minnesota, followed by ever increasing winds after the snow ends. That's when the blizzard conditions step in along with the frigid cold. In some cases wind chills will hit-40 Thursday morning I'll be up early, before sunrise, digging out my driveway. Getting too work should be manageable, but coming home at 330pm might be a little crazy. I'll throw up a couple of videos over the next 48 hours or so 😊

Under 0.50, correct? I thought corkscrew at first glance but it would be great if it was a Cac peewee 😊

Oh yes...someone here at work showed me pictures a while ago...wow, they are lucky. I was told that a mother and child were IN that corner room watching TV when it hit. That's easily a 40,000 pound piece of equipment on that bed. Close ups of the other side of the house show the cracks all the way through the middle of the structure. If that place would have been constructed of wood, oh boy. Then there was that fire last year that took out that other house/building just to the west on the same side of the street. I think I would be selling my roadside property 😬