HITTING FOR THE CYCLE

      I usually feel like every day is going to be an adventure.  It was a pretty day today (that's a shiny penny right there), sunny and not too cold out.  No traffic to direct (a story for another day).  I run the same route most of the time with a few small changes here and there but for the most part it's the same old route--and every day I find something different.  I think today was dime day-I found 8 but-----I hit for the extended cycle!!!  In baseball getting a single, double, triple, and homer in the same game is considered hitting for the cycle.  I figure for me that would be finding a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter on the same run, and I seem to do that a lot so I added hitting for the extended cycle which is getting a lug nut and socket as well.  Got'em all, 4 coins (+), a lug nut, 2sockets and a socket extender.  And of course a hub cap.  I already have 20 in the garage now and we sold 30 of them at our last garage sale. Gotta laugh!  Quite often there's tools out there too, today was a screwdriver and a phillips head drill bit.  Also a reindeer nose and a little orange squishy thing.  I've got so much "pig iron" now that I'm trying to be a little more selective.  It needs to be money, or something useful, or something unusual, and some days it just depends on what I've found already.  

      I titled the blog One More Nut In The Road because of the lug nuts and other assorted nuts I was finding a few years ago.  And I always think, here's a nut in the road being picked up by...a nut in the road.  Karen and I have talked about having a lug nut award.  It would go to the most exasperating or uncooperative or inept or, well, you know, person that month.  We'll have a plaque and there will be 12 lug nuts, one for each month and they'll be awarded to the person you'd most like to say---well bless their heart to.  (we won't actually give them a plaque, it can stay on our wall and we'll have a metal name plate with the name and date. Joshua---you're number 1...)