The stamp business proceeds but slowly. I have so many thousands completely unsorted that it is a never ending task. The ones on paper have to be soaked off. Once they are dry I sort them by country. Once they separated by country then I go through one nation at the time identifying each stamp by the Catalogue. Finally, I go through the ones already identified and place them in a sales book [250 stamps per book] and mail them to the person who sends them to collectors in about 5-6 states surrounding Oklahoma. Of course I have many thousands already I could place in sales books sooner but if I spent too much time on that I might die before I got all of the ones still on paper ready. Unless I live a very long life I will probably never run out of stamps to sell even though I do not collect new ones any more.
I have sent 4 sales books in this year so far. I am working on Argentina and hope to get 6 books of all different stamps done within a couple of months. So far I have nearly 3000 identified. I may have close to 5000 before I am finished. [Lots of duplicates as you might guess.]
The Lord helps me in this as well and sometimes gives us a special blessing. Last month we had really high household expenses and were cutting way back to make to payday. About that time I received an unexpected check for stamps sales which would see us to the end of the month. There was enough so that we also so we went out to a nice dinner, just the two of us. [Normally I only receive one payment each year for stamps sales each November, although I never know how much or how little it's going to be.] This was only the second time since I started selling several years ago that I received a second unexpected payment in one year.]
I take a little time each day for online forums, this being only one of them. How much time I spend online is as the Lord leads me. I almost never carry any kind of Internet device with me away from home. Of course it is seldom that I ever go out of town these days.
Now that summer is really on us, I avoid going outside unnecessarily. Today I went to the cleaners and the library. On the way home as I was within a few blocks I had one of my spells and just continued driving carefully to our parking place. I sat there with the engine running and AC blasting as it was about 100 degrees outside and called Kathy on the phone. She found a kind strong young man willing and able to help me walk the few paces into the apartment where I could relax until the spell had run its course.
Give God the glory!
