'DA GOOGLES' DOES IT AGAIN : 04 28 2022

      I have to hand it to 'Da Googles', they have really helped me to identify a large number of items that I've 'run' across that I had no idea what they were.  Today 'DGs' identified that large bolt on the left as a zinc plated concrete anchor bolt. Go figure.  Since it was in the road I'm guessing that it escaped from the "zinc plated concrete anchor bolt" truck.  There also was a black lug nut, no doubt from a black rim, I think that's the only color other than chrome I've seen. The usual machine screws, washers and 'nuts in the road' (just say it quietly to yourselves..) today.  There were 11 pennies and a nickel and they were scattered pretty much from the beginning of the run to the end with the nickel somewhere in the middle.  Not a whole lot, but each one is a little blessing, thank you Creator!!

GET BACK JACK! : 04 27 2022

      This is not the 1st car jack I've 'run' across.  Recently, on one of the longer Sunday runs I saw one as I passed a gas station.  It was lying on the ground next to the air pump and I debated picking it up.  I thought it best to leave it there, because if it was me and I lost it I would return to the gas station to look for it and hopefully the guilty party has done that.  I'll have to look the next time I run that route.  But, this one I found in the grass between the curb and the sidewalk on a really busy street with no gas station or place to change a tire close by.   According to 'Da Googles' it's a 1/2 ton worth about $32, so we have something to keep the hub caps company until the next "stuff in the garage" sale.  And BTW, that steel rod with the big eye on the end was with the car jack and again I needed 'Da Googles' to assist.  Seems it's an emergency tow hook eye bolt which makes more sense now.  Jack up the car, put spare on, tow it away.....hopefully to a happy ending.  

     I hit for the cycle again (penny,nickel,dime,quarter)!  I was waiting for a nickel to show itself and passing a car wash, something caught my eye in the cracks between pavements.  It was a false alarm but a few feet away, hiding in the dirt, was my nickel.  Ha!  Thank you Creator of all things for these symbols of your infinite abundance.  Yeahuh!!  Only the star drill bit attachment today for tools, unless you count the pen as a tool, and I guess for some of us it is.  

     There was an "InsideOut Coaching card on the ground today and it has memory joggers about "G R O W", Goal, Reality, Options, Way Forward.  I see that it's the work of the late Brittish race car driver and author John Whitmore and it looks interesting, I may have to investigate further.  Also we have a retro Parking Permit from 2017, it's what all the chic older cars are wearing these days. The long white thing at the bottom looked like a roll of paper.  It's wrapped in plastic and upon unrolling some of it, in my expert opinion, it seems to be just be just regular, everyday, ordinary, ol' paper. And you can quote me.  I did consult 'Da Googles' to be sure, who didn't have anything useful to share on this one, but 3 out of 4 is pretty good.

100th BLOG POST : 04 26 2022

      This is the 100th blog post and I debated on what route to run as I wanted it to be memorable.  I had hoped there'd be some cool stuff scattered about to collect but it was more of an ordinary day out there.  The weather was nice, that's the 1st shiny penny, and then right off the bat there was a shiny nickel on the curb line.  There were pennies routinely scattered and another nickel in the road.  The dime was a little harder to spot, it had been run over and bent.  But no quarter today and I was really expecting to find one.  I had found everything else I needed to hit for the extended cycle (penny,nickel,dime, quarter,socket,lug nut) but somehow I missed it.  Still though, thank you Creator for all these symbols of your infinite abundance.  Yeayuh!

     I found another mini lug nut wrench, ideal for a small car, this makes two now,  There were a lot of 'nuts in the road' (I know...) today, and I'm pretty much obligated to take those.  There was another hitch pin as well as a medium sized nylon bag.  The bag is perfect for storing some plant covers I have, so I took that as well.  And, Allen has been doing pretty good the last few weeks, but he left another one in the road today.  Get with the program Allen!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST : 04 25 2022

      Another phone bit the dust, this time it was a Samsung.  I looked up the battery number and before it was roadkill it used to be a Galaxy J3, which came out in 2018.  Time, for this little guy was not a friend.    Hey, I hit for the extended cycle today!!!!!!!! (penny,nickel,dime,quarter,socket,lug nut). Early on I had most of the coins except the quarter, followed closely by two sockets and three lug nuts, which is what, a Found-In-The-Road full house I guess?  I found the 'half of a penny' first, another case where you pass by and then do a 180 as it slowly registers.  Still, it's something to give a little thank you for.  But, I just knew that the quarter would eventually show up.

     Kept on looking and found the usual assortment of bolts, washers and nuts (yeah, yeah, I know, found by just one more nut in the road. Seems I've heard that somewhere).  The good folks at Frost Bank and also Legacy Texas each contributed a pen, and I suppose it fits into their advertising budget somehow.  I found another drill attachment and it was not far from where I found that cache of them a week ago.  I just saved this one from going down that nemesis of all things in the road, that black hole from which there is no return, the storm drain.  There was another little rubber ball too, I seem to be accumulating a lot of them too.  So, only about a hundred yards left to run with one more intersection to cross and of course, last but not least, there's my quarter out in the road.  Somehow they find me.  Case in point, yesterday my wife and I took a drive and decided to play miniature golf.  It was a nice drive out a country road and we pulled in the lot and parked, and I open the car door and what's at my feet?  Six shiny pennies!  Out of all the places to stop, and of all the parking spaces we could have chosen, we end up where there's six pennies.  Ya gotta laugh!!!!  (And of course say Thank You!!!)

H H M : 04 24 2022

      I found a ball cap with H H M on it and this time "Da Googles" wasn't able to tell me much.  But Wikipedia could, seems it's a fictional Albuquerque law firm from Breaking Bad.  And so it also seems to me we have a new addition to the fine line of men's 'found in the road' accessories, our Breaking Bad Line. 

      And a shout out today to Franklin.  Yo, Franklin, I found your glove, I'll set it aside for you.  You didn't happen to lose a gas cap too did you?  They weren't too far apart.  I also found what looks like a tiny grenade, it's threaded at the bottom to where it could be an auto tire valve cover.  No lug nuts today, so hopefully everyone out there is either safe or the wheel's already fallen off the car and it's not on the road to lose any more.  I vote for safe.

     3 quarters,6 nickels, 20 dimes, and 35 pennies, a pretty normal Sunday but don't think I'm not appreciative.  Thank you Creator of all for every little shiny penny I run across (literally and figuratively).  You can see at the top above the little grenade valve cover there's a little medallion. Thought it was a coin when I picked it up but Google Lens (cousin of "Da Googles") said it was a peace charm.  It has wings on one side and WP 925 on the reverse.  Interesting.    There was another S hook but no bungie cord nearby, and another pen in one of the bank driveways.  I'm really going to have to think about having a Garage  "stuff I found in the road" sale sometime soon, before this stuff starts to take over!

FISHING REEL (no, reely!) : 04 23 2022

      Spotted a fishing reel in the road.  How does one of those get there, and without the rod?  Heck I didn't see any fish either.  Not sure how it escaped out of the boat.  Dunno.  But, judging from my past fishing expertise, I could use that reel (or most any reel) and the fish would still be safe.  I figured that snarl of fishing line is probably some special trolling technique, you put multiple lures on that mess and pitch it in the lake and then pull out your limit, right?

     The steel pin/rod next to the fishing reel was at the curb line early on and I stashed it to get on the way back.  I guess it's a chisel maybe?  I found the small straight blade screwdriver at an intersection, not too far from the reel actually.  I picked up the lock just for the picture, as representative of what's in the road.  The red tag was curious, it was in a parking lot of a CVS nowhere near the interstate, and it says,"Reverse Logistics, highway transport only."  It appears that some of the journey of what it was formerly attached to was not highway but local streets.  I won't tell if you won't tell.  

     I hit for the cycle today (penny,nickel,dime,quarter)-- woo hoo! Several times over too, and the pennies were scattered out over the whole run, I kept finding them along the curb line.  It's funny how they always find me. Last night I had stopped to get a Powerball ticket at a convenience store, and  I opened up the car door and what's at my feet?  My shiny penny.  I'm hoping it was a sign!! (and thank you Creator!)

Rubber Duckie #16 : 04 22 2022

     Found the 16th rubber duckie today, on a very busy 7 lane road, along the curb. He asked for asylum and I granted it, hey, I felt sorry for the poor little lost bird. 

     13 more 'NutsInTheRoad' and 8 were lug nuts fer cryin out loud! How are people's tires staying on?? More of the usual, bolts and machine screws, and a washer or three.  There was a large 16 mm socket for a half inch handle and an extension for a 3/8 inch one. One of these days I've got to see how many sets I can put together. Also there was another star drill bit, it's been quite a week for those too.  The round metal circle with CF-4 at the top I had no clue about, but "Da Googles" knew, it's an adapter used with brake fluid exchange when servicing a vehicle.  So, if you only use it in the shop,  how did it get lost on the side of the road you ask?  Question for the ages.  How did the bungie cord get there?  I think I can help with that.  Something came unbungied whilst traveling from point A to point B.  How else?

     The pennies trickled in over the whole run and that nickel might have been last. I think I had actually stopped to look at something else and spotted it. So blessed, pretty day, with sunshine on and off, and a breeze. Actually a whole buncha breeze!  And as always, thank you Creator for all these little symbols of Your infinite abundance. 
 

Internationally Famous Eyeroll: 04 21 2022

      Large deer coin?  Wasn't sure until I found the round companion to it which said on the inside "base metal bezel, battery #377", so it's the case to a pocket watch.  No sign of the watch though, guess its (wait for it) time had come.  On the other side of the intersection just about to head down the storm drain there was the case for an Alcatel Flip Phone, the innards had preceded it in and the case was next. People----watch where you put your phones!

     Lots of the usual pig iron in the street today, and of course I had to grab all 10 nuts-in-the-road, for obvious reasons.  There only were a few coins, a dime and three pennies, but I'm thankful Creator, for those blessings.  And I should say here, that I tend to make a lot of references to things that have gone on in past blog posts assuming that everyone has read these day to day and knows what I'm talking about.  My apologies for any confusion.  It's like when my wife says to me that we never discussed something and I always tell her "that must have been one of those conversations we had inside my head."  Followed by her internationally known by now "eyeroll".  Sorry honey, will a neck rub help?

FORK IN THE ROAD : 04 20 2022

     Yes,  that's a plastic fork.  I see lots of silverware in the road both metal and plastic and it takes unusual circumstances to snag any of it.  This poor beat up run'd over plastic guy was at a fork in the road, and you just know that I am required to pick up a fork in the road found at a fork in the road.  Ha!  And yes again, that is a pool cue, or at least the business end of one.  Someone either hit a shot WAY too hard, or hit a really bad shot and blamed it on the cue, or it just wasn't fitting where they wanted it to go so they resized it to fit. You tell me.

     As a kid I had a bag of marbles just like most kids did back then.  You had all kinds, the clear ones were my favorite, but I had some like this little guy too.  I've found a number of these now, not enough to play a game of marbles as I haven't found a 'Shooter' yet, but it's just a matter of time.  And as kids we played Twister too but I've not seen the little plastic twister card before.  Must be a new addition since I last played it 'lebenty seven' years ago.  There was more glass accent/gravel today and I see a lot of those in the road, but how they get from a fish tank or a flower vase to the street is a mystery.

     There was a very small wrench today, a great addition to the 'Rundover Store' collection of tools for tight spaces.  And there was the usual selection of little 'blessings from above', 5 dimes, 3 nickels, and part of a penny.  I think the more I run, the better I get at spotting change in the road, especially pieces of pennies.  I'll go by and something will register and I'll do a 180 and there it is.  Regardless, thank you Creator for all these symbols of Your infinite abundance.  

 

Pennies And Lug Nuts And Dimes (oh my!) : 04 19 2022

 

       Where is all the fruit coming from?  In the last week I've had a lime, an orange, and now an apple show up in the road, and all were intact and untouched.  And a number of weeks ago there were cherry tomatoes, I guess I'm going to have to open up a produce aisle in the 'Rundover Store'.  There was a baby bottle nipple today as well.  I've found 3 pacifiers already so I guess it was inevitable a baby bottle nipple would show up.

     There were 8 more nuts in the road today, 4 of which were lug nuts (yes and all picked up by 'OneMoreNutInTheRoad', yeah, yeah, yeah, I know).  Additions to the tools collection include a center punch tool and another drill attachment, this one for a star end.  

     There was a different kind of lock, had not seen one like this and not sure where you'd use it but included it for the picture. There was what's left of a roll of electrical tape, and lastly an little American flag. It was lying on the ground and I hate that, so I rescued it. That probably make at least 4 or 5 I've saved, it'll be handy come the "Fourth"

Attention Student Drivers. : 04 18 2022

      Ever see a fellow driver out there and  you wonder what Cracker Jack box they got their license out of? Although I've been known to give them a virtual Zen wedgie, putting a magnetic Student Driver sign on their car might feel better. And I found one at the curbline of a very busy intersection near the freeway (or should I say, the payway). That was a laugh out loud moment!

     I've found a perfectly good lime, and 2 whole untouched cherry tomatoes previously. And now, today,  available at the produce section of the 'Rundover Store', we can now offer Cutie oranges. Found this on the run finishing up so I didn't have to juggle it too long. I had just found, on the sidewalk this time, a telescopic magnetic pick up tool that, considering how many sockets I find, most people don't have (or use). And right after that I found a Mysteries of the Rosary religious CD, a change from the country music CDs I usually see.

     Not sure what the pink ring thing is, something for a dog to chew on? A kid to chew on?  And we have another offering for our fine line of quality women's footware in the 'Rundover Store', we have a size 5 1/2 white, Air Jordan sandle. This'll go fast I'm sure. There were lots of 'nuts in the road' today including 4 lug nuts picked up by, alright now, everyone together, "One More Nut........." ( well, it is the blog name!)

     Didn't quite hit for the cycle today, I never saw a nickel, but I'm thankful for the quarter, 2 dimes and 3 1/3 pennies. And that poor run d'over piece of a penny was all I had found for the better part of the run, and it was tough spotting it. One of those 180 degree about faces when you think, what did I just see? Still, I was thankful for that, and for the sunny day, and for just being able get out and get at it.  Yeayuh!!!

PURPLE HUB CAP : 04 17 2022

 

     A purple hub cap????  In the road?  The longer Sunday runs never disappoint.  Yes, that is a purple hub cap.  Just when I thought I'd seen it all, there's one of these guys.  I found it a few miles out and I stashed it to pick up on my return along with the a gas cap and a 25' measuring tape. Both were in the road and in pretty good shape, that's got to be the 4th or 5th tape measure and it's probably the best one I've found.  I checked on line and they're $15 new--go figure.  I found a UPS ball cap too, I think that 's 2 or 3 of those I've found now.  One of those guys that drive those 'convection ovens on wheels' with the doors open probably had one blow out.  'Brown' is usually delivering a box to me 4 or 5 times a month with either Access Bars, or protein, or Sustain sports drink, or the like so I'll have to ask Mark my driver if he lost one.

     My command of the Spanish language comes from 3 days of HS Spanish class, whereupon I went back to French class (hey, at least I tried! It's not like I live in Madrid.) That said, I found, what says on it, to be a Mexican Consular ID card. It seems our foreign visitors have the same trouble some of us do keeping track of our driver's licenses, credit cards, and passports. Go figure.  Next, (trumpet sound)  I found another rubber duckie!!! Woo Hoo! That makes 15!  I'm getting a regular flock going here.  He's blue and has a 3rd eye in his forehead?!  Not sure if he's psychic, but there was though, back 20 or 30 years ago when Pokeman was a big thing, a character called Psyduck who was psychic, but strangely he was a platypus not a duck.  Be sure to be taking notes, I'm almost positive this will be on the mid-term.

     I found a painted rock in a driveway off a busy intersection that said "Parker's Rocks" with a cute little yellow duck  on it.  Come to find out it's a commemorative for a little person named Parker Cole who unfortunately was only here for 5 months. It's the family's way of dealing with their loss and they hope it will be uplifting.  Whoever finds the rock goes to the website to let them know it was found and then that person hides it again.  That's sweet. 

     And of course, I hit for the extended cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter,socket,lug nut)----yeayuh!!!!  Thank you Creator of all for all these little symbols of Your infinite abundance!  I was talking to my UPS driver recently and he is finding change everywhere as well.  I'm thinking that on the days when I happen to be running along his route, I'll need to head out before he gets there, beat him to the punch! (sorry Mark!)  

     

     

ESCAPE FROM THE PICKUP TRUCK : 04 16 2022

 

     An interesting assortment today.  The first lug nut needed a little assistance out of some asphalt, and I found a nut driver handle while getting it out and cleaning it off.  Next there was most of a flat blade screwdriver along with the 10 of Clubs.  There was no sign of the other 51 cards though.  The tennis ball is number four I think, and oddly, it was nowhere near a tennis court.  I passed a Frost Bank and guess what I found there?  No credit cards or change, just two Frost pens.  In the middle of an intersection there were 15 socket adapter/drill adapter/drill nut driver/phillips head adapter pieces and it took three light changes to get out there and find all of these.  Never saw a holder for them or a box to store them in so I'm at a loss to explain how they got there.  I guess they must have jumped out of the back of a pickup trying to escape and that's as far as they got.

     I wrote about the tiny bungie cord and its bigger brother on 'Lost Zip' and 'Basilic Tooth' and today we have a tiny S hook.  I find tons of its bigger brothers in the road either in or out of a bungie cord, and this is the first one this small.  Who knows, with the right diet and exercise, this one could be a big guy too someday.  I did hit for the extended cycle today (penny,nickel,dime,quarter,socket,lug nut)!!! Yah Hoo!  I'm always grateful for all the various and sundry coinage that finds me out there, and I never know what there will be or where it will be.  I just know it will find me (or rather Someone will direct it to me, or me to it).  Today the nickel was nowhere.  I kept finding pennies and dimes (BTW thank you Creator!) and had just decided I was done.  And then 50 yards from the end, there in the road, along the curb line, there was the shiny nickel.  Very large laugh!!!  There's always the rhetorical "how do You do that?" But I know. 

LOST ZIP : 04 15 2022

     Found the steel chisel near the start of the run.  It was where a driveway hit the main street and I almost decided to stash it and come back for later.   But it managed to stay in the pocket the whole run, otherwise I wouldn't have taken that very large machine screw in the picture.  I hit for the cycle, but I did seed my pocket today with a shiny nickel and dime that found me yesterday.  They were, as always, in very random places where there really shouldn't be any change on the ground.  As it turned out I only needed the nickel as I found three other dimes, or rather, they found me. (thank you Creator!)

     Today I found the big brother of yesterday's tiny bungie cord.  See what a big strapping guy he is! That's what happens when you sit up straight, eat all your vegetables, pick up your toys, wash your hands (Roger), say your prayers every night, wash behind your ears, be kind to animals, and don't step on any cracks in the sidewalk (you're welcome mom!).  Now we know, it works!!

     I found a couple more S hooks, that's got to be lebenty eight and nine I'm sure.  And there was the Zip part of a zipper along the roadside too.  I'm thinking some guy is out there walking around not even knowing "the barn door is wide open".  And there's no way to close it either, won't he be embarrassed.  Something else I almost didn't pick up (sorry honey!) was the sippy cup with ears.  It kinda looks like a 1950s spaceship, doesn't it?  I guess we could add that to the 'Rundover Store', it could go in the kiddo section with all the other unique, exquisite, one-of-a-kind offerings.  Right there along side the Racing Bippies.  

BASILIC TOOTH : 04 14 2022

      Had a lot going on today and the run was a little shorter, also I was listening to a song I needed to do later in the day and had it on an earbud going over and over and over and over......and over.  So I was a little distracted, but looking at the picture now, you wouldn't know it.  

     Another pair of pliers, can you have too many of these?  Well ok, I'm told you can (thanks honey! No eye roll though, thanks also!).  Another tool, a funkey kinda allen wrench, off-set, I'm sure there's times when that guy'd come in handy I suppose.  And a baby bungie cord, awww, they're so cute when they're this age.  Lots of change, hit for the cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter), yea! Lots of shiny pennies (thank you Creator!!!) and one hurt penny that got a little bent, and others that have been run over enough to start wearing the copper down to the zinc underneath.  Thankful for all these little symbols though.  

     Seems like there's always a Harry Potter marathon on cable if you look hard enough.  Well, it seems I found a basilic fang in the road today.  It looks just like the ones in The Deathly Hallows part 2 when Harry and Ron are trying to kill Nagini, the snake that's also a horcrux.  So worst case, if trouble comes lookin, I got a basilic fang waiting.  On a brighter side, I found a little Sparky the Fire Dog in a driveway.  Cute little guy, who I expect can keep the pink hippo I recently found company, not to mention all those found rubber duckies.

What Do Small Sockets Aspire to? : 04 13 2022

     Another potpourri day, lots of useful stuff.  Anyone need half a flip phone? I'm thinking it must have belonged to a very strong or willful senior citizen who flipped it WAY too hard.  Poor little phone never had a chance.  There were a few small and large 'nuts in the road', there was a junior and a senior S hook, and also a baby socket and its much bigger brother.  If you ever wondered what the small little sockets aspire to, look no further.  That little, tiny, 1/4" socket for a 1/4" handle wants to grow up to be that 1/2" long barrel socket. Ya gotta have dreams!  

     No pennies made an appearance today.  No doubt there was one out there somewhere, just too well hidden today.  But I did find two quarters, a dime and......... a rare, circulated, 2011, much runned over, sittin in the turn lane of a 7 lane piece of road, $5 Peso.  I've found any number of foreign coins, guess we'll have to open a new wing of the 'Rundover Store', the 'Rundover Currency Exchange'.  And BTW,  thank you Creator for all these little symbols of your infinite abundance.  Yeayuh!

     One of the last things I came across was the box of rubber gloves.  It's a $23, brand new, unused box of 100 Gloveworks HD 8 mil Nitrile Industrial gloves with raised diamond texture.  Yes, you heard me right, raised diamond texture.  I couldn't believe it either.  I was so verklempt I almost missed the 36" piece of pipe insulation that was just around the corner.  I have an immediate need for that, as I've got insulation on a Freon pipe to my AC unit that's getting worn. One more little blessing.  Go figure!

LIME-AIDE : 04 12 2022

      I've found cherry tomatoes before, but this is the first lime.  And it was right at the cross walk of an intersection, where they had marked the utilities on the roadway.  The lime was sitting right in the center of a small painted white square, so I figured if it's that obvious, I guess I'm supposed to take it.  And who knows, I might even make some lime-aide out of it.  There were two 10mm sockets, one for a 1/4" handle, and one for a 1/2 " handle, found in two different places.  Ha!     Almost hit for the cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter) but I somehow missed seeing the dime.  There were 14 on last Sunday so I guess it all evens out.  

BRANDSMA WHO? : 04 11 2022

      It would have very easy to pass on the hub cap if it was cracked or just beat up, but this one was only dirty, and since I was maybe a half mile from being done, in a weak moment, I added this one to the garage sale tub.  Now I need to figure out when the garage sale is going to happen. Right next to the hub cap was a Brandsma Productions ball cap, not sure what that is though.  I asked "da Googles" and found there's a number of business people with that last name but mostly elsewhere, and nothing for Brandsma Productions.  Maybe the hub cap was theirs?  Maybe they offer hub caps?  Maybe they steal hup caps?  Who knows?

     

 There were three lug nuts today and a spring hook but mostly just regular run-of-the-mill street 'pig iron'.  Lots of change though, especially shiny pennies which I really like. Two quarters, two dimes and 11 1/3 pennies, and that 1/3 of a penny was one of those about-face moments when it suddenly registers that there was something there you passed.  I think I'm getting better at that after all these daily runs.  

Little Pink Hitchhiker : 04 10 2022

      Found some new stuff today.  There was a brand new $24 roll of black flashing tape that was headed down a storm drain that I rescued. Fortunately, it was at the end of the run so I didn't have to lug it around too terribly far.

     That pink comb I found has to be the biggest comb I've ever seen!  Not sure what that big hook it has is for but I guess you could hang it anywhere with that. I hit for the extended cycle today!!! (penny,nickel,dime,quarter,socket,lug nut) And I even found several tools.  I'm starting to get quite a collection of open end wrenches not to mention screwdriver drill attachments.  

     Granted the blog is called "one more nut in the road" but there are days when it really lives up to the name, 25 'nuts in the road' (picked up by, yeah we know...) and there was a lug nut too.  There was the usual amount of Sunday run change, 9 quarters, 14 dimes, 4 nickels, 41 1/2  pennies. And of course, thank you Creator for all these little symbols of Your infinite abundance.  Makes me laugh how it all seems to find me. 

     There was a really small key today, it looks like it goes to a small locket maybe?  There was another pen (that's 2 hundred lebenty nine by now..) and also a pencil, which is smaller in the picture because it wasn't wanting to stay in my pocket and kept poking my leg so I changed a 'writing up a big deal' pencil into a 'writing up a medium deal' pencil.  Interestingly, I found the pink Hippo on the access road to I35, and I suspect he was trying to hitch a ride. It made sense he was still there when I ran by, I mean, how many people are going to give a pink hippo they don't know a ride.  Poor little guy could have been there a week.  Lucky thing for him I happened along, now he can keep all those rubber duckies company.

BIG WORM FISHING : 04 09 2022

 

     I ran this route last Sat and found the glove on the way out, but it was very wet,so I stashed it and was going to come back for it on the way back.  Oooops.  Remembered it today!  It's one of those gloves that make you laugh, it says Big Worm Fishing, and it also explains a lot.  All these years I've been doing it wrong, I've been using Little Worms and I haven't caught a thing.  It's Big Worms.....why didn't anybody tell me?!

     I think I prefer the hub caps that cover lug nuts right in the middle of the tire like the GEAR one I found today.  Much easier to carry and don't take up much space in the garage (awaiting the next garage sale).  I found a pair of sunglasses with a lanyard which is kind of handy.  Even if I don't use those sunglasses, I can use the lanyard on another pair.  I do find a lot of drill bits but this one is a little bent at the tip and won't be seen after the picture.  There were two socket/drill adapters and I'm starting to get quite a collection of those.  I may have to add those to the "fine selection of tools in the 'Rundover Store' ."

      Not a lot of coins today, but the shiny pennies I always expect (and give thanks!!).   The quarters all came in about the same place and I'm starting to see a pattern now.  I'll have to keep looking in that area going forward (although I'm not going to say where!)  I found the neckless chain in a bank driveway, not sure how somebody loses one there.  The little black bag goes with an air compressor, it has the adapter ends to blow up a pool float or an air mattress.   

     The rest is the usual stuff, a pen from a bank driveway, a copper water hose adapter, an aluminum air hose coupling, an eyebolt , a couple of hitch pins, and of course more nuts in the road (ok, everybody on three...picked up by another nut in the road, yeah yeah I know).  What fun, eh?

SWEET SPOT : 04 08 2022

      My route today took me past that 'sweet spot' where I found all those quarters earlier this week and of course I had to give it a quick look-see.  And go figure--I found 4 more quarters, that's 40 from that spot now!  Ok, a large thank-you Creator of all things for these symbols of Your infinite abundance!  You just never know!

     Most of the pennies today were pretty beat up, but of course that's what happens when they get run over so no surprise.  The lock I took just for the picture, I have tons of found locks and this one has no key so, buh bye. I picked up all 7 nuts in the road I saw, I'm kind of required to (after all, the name is OneMoreNutInTheRoad after all..) and yes they were all picked up by a nut in the road, yes I know.  Lastly, there was another 13 mm socket . I seem to find a lot of those so I'm thinking it must be a popular size. Right off the top of my head, it's the size for the battery connections on my car so I know at least I can use it.  

     No cell phones, no wallets, no rubber duckies (darn!), nothing really unusual today but that's how it works most of the time.  Makes you appreciate the crazy days even more I guess.  

SETTING A BETTER EXAMPLE : 04 07 2022

 

      Yesterday's and today's routes had some overlap, and I again passed the "dinosaur dig site" I wrote about yesterday.  And I had to laugh, I missed a couple of 'relics' which must have also been there yesterday.  I found the other foot, and also the head of maybe a velociraptor. And to think, these could have been lost to posterity. HA!

     There's always nuts and bolts in the road, but no lug nuts today, but I think I'm covered though with the ten I found last Monday.  There are usually tools to be found and today it was a socket and a socket adapter, also Allen left another wrench lying in the road (he never listens!).  There were lots of shiny pennies today (my favorite!), pretty much from the start to finish, 17 of them as well as 3 dimes. (thank you Creator!!)  

     I have found too many cell phones now to count, with some of them still working and some pretty beat up.  But I have to say that somebody is NOT setting a very good example.  Today I found a Samsung phone back and battery in the street which means that phone is history, but just a little ways away I found a face plate for a children's 'Kid Tech' play phone.  Isn't that cute?  Wanting to be just like mommy and daddy and losing your phone in the road.  Somebody needs to set a better example for that little tyke.  Just sayin!

     

WELCOME TO JURASSIC PARK : 04 06 2022

      Today was another "go figure!" day.  I was finding the usual nuts, bolts pennies, etc. when I stumbled on the 'relics'.  I'm sure they're millions of seconds old. Ok, I found the arm/claw first and got a chuckle out of that, and then here come more pieces--the jawbone, then the foot, and the thigh.  I was worried that the 'site' might be disturbed but fortunately for us, shortly after unearthing these 'relics', across the street, heading down a storm drain, I found the orange cones so that the 'dig' area can be secured.    

     I thought I might 'hit for the cycle' (penny,nickel,dime,quarter) but somehow the nickel didn't present itself.  There's no telling, it could have been out there and I missed it.  Case in point, on the way out I found the orange cones and stashed them on the other side of the street to collect on the way back.  I put them behind a utility pole and when I passed on the way back, there was a really shiny penny right on the curb line, right in front of my nose, that I missed before.  It never hurts sometimes to look in both directions. Regardless---thank you Creator for all these symbols of Your infinite abundance!

     The wire cutters are useful as are the socket and the phillips head socket adapter.  I've found lots of trailer hitch hardware, and found another to add to the group.  That little oval shaped thing below the 'relic' arm opens and closes to connect links of a chain.  I have a good number of those but nothing that small til now!  Lastly, looking at all this various stuff, I just have to laugh.  There is no way I could have predicted what I'd 'run' across today.

ANTI GRAV SHOE : 04 05 2022

      I see so many tire weights in the road and I was wondering if they get recycled, or if there's any value in taking them to a scrap yard.  They're made out of lead, or zinc, or steel and the ones here were mostly lead but a few had a steel center coated in lead.  I'm thinking it's more trouble than it's worth, and it's not like I don't have enough pig iron here already. It was nut-in-the-road day yesterday, today it's bolt-machine screw in the road day, and I suppose tomorrow it will be washer day, ya just never know.  Personally, I’m voting for hundred dollar bill in the road day.

     Now available in the 'Rundover Store' we have a woman's 'Easy Spirit' Anti-Gravity shoe.  Seriously, it says Anti-Gravity right on it!  I have not been able to get the anti grav stuff to work yet but it may be that it only works for women, so I'll keep an eyeball peeled out there for a men's version.  I didn't even know they had perfected Anti Gravity technology yet---go figure.

     Another 'flying wedge' of coins today, and I did hit for the cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter), but I did have to finagle it just a little.  I was missing the quarter so I ran by the spot where last Friday I found those 35 quarters all together in the grass and lo and behold, there was one I had missed.  Woo and hoo! (and thank you Creator!!)

    It would appear that Deputy Fife was here again as there was a lone bullet there in the street.  He probably doesn't even know it's missing from his shirt pocket. Well, we won't tell him.  Lastly, I found the counterpart to the very short pencil I found last Friday, the one for all the regular, every day, nothing special, etc. deals.   This one would be the one for all those big, super duper, gigundo enormous, mega triple throw down, gettin down to brass tacks deals.  Wouldn't we all like to need one of those!

Talk About Yer Nuts In The Road... : 04 04 2022

     This was an entirely new area today.  I've driven through it countless times and I even lived in the area 25+ years ago, so I was open for anything.   OK, if there was ever a "nut in the road day", it was definitely today.  12 regular nuts, and 10, count'em ten lug nuts! (yeah, yeah we know, picked up by a nut in the road...) Doesn't anybody own a lug wrench anymore?  They were at every street corner it seemed.  And of course, today there was a Nissan label to go with the Toyota, Eagle Flight, 5CC, Kia, Dodge Ram, Ford, Chevy, etc. ones that have already turned up.  There was a spark plug gapping tool today and I hadn't seen one of those in years, it was from back in the days when you could actually work on your own car, and you didn't have to be Houdini to get parts off and on.   There were other tools too, a 7/16" wrench and a 13mm socket, for when you were going to not work on your car (ha). 

     There have been every once in a while, a few reindeer antler stragglers in the road, I think I've seen maybe two of them, but just when you think the season is over here's a little Christmas Wreath ornament.  Not sure if it's just been on the curb line for a really long time or if it fell out of the box of Christmas things that somebody was taking to storage.  Or maybe it just escaped.  Lastly, I also found a green crayon, I guess for those occasions when you wanted to be really really informal.  Or maybe to just sign something unofficially.  Or maybe so you could write on the tablecloth at Macaroni Grill.  Just sayin.

     Almost forgot, the most important item of all--14 pennies!!  Found one pretty quick outside a carwash and the rest just trickled in.  And the dime was just icing.  So, thank you Creator of all, for all those symbols of Your infinite abundance!  Yowza!

TRAIL OF BREAD CRUMBS : 04 03 2022

      Sunday runs are always interesting, they're longer so of course more places to find things.  I found a shiny dime right off followed by a quarter and a penny so I pretty much assumed I'd hit for the cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter). Next was the 3 pronged cord and I have been needing a short cord so, put an end on it and bing!

     I started finding quarters along the road, about 10 feet apart, 4 or 5 in a row, kind of like a trail of breadcrumbs. I did look around, it made me wonder if someone was messing with me. (Ha!)  Eventually, there were 10 quarters, 7 dimes,  2 nickels, and 25 pennies, which is a pretty normal for a  Sunday. (thank you Creator of all things!!)

     Found three sockets and a drill bit, and eventually found a very large Allen wrench. Allen you're doing it again, you need to pick up your tools when you're done!!

     Actually found a Chick-fil-A gift card in the driveway of a different restaurant. And  I usually don't pick up the little packages of secret sauce (hot sauce in this case) but it looked so new I at least took it for the picture. And it is representative of what's out there.  Lastly I found a very small "Terminator" skull head, haven't figured out where that came from yet, it might be part of a key ring?

SWISS ARMY KNIFE : 04 02 2022

      After yesterday's mega-haul I wondered "how do you follow that?"  Silly question, I didn't find the amount of shear coinage today but found lots of everything.  There was a glove that I almost took that had something about worm fishermen on it, and I may have to nap it next time I run that route.  Right off the bat I found a beat up dime in the road followed by a socket a short distance after.  I knew at that point that it would be an interesting day.  The hook in the upper left would be good for putting in the garage ceiling to hang a bicycle from, I just have to find another one now.  And that is probably the smallest length of chain I've seen, it goes perfectly with the tiny pencil from yesterday.  There was also a pegboard hook that I can make use of right now. 

     There was a Toyota symbol in the road, I suspect that this one was once part of somebody's vehicle, and now it can keep the Ford, Chev, Mazda ,B-Mer, etc emblems I've found company.  I hit for the extended cycle (penny,nickel,dime,quarter,socket,lugNut) today, extended with tools! And the shiny penny was the last thing I found, and I didn't think there'd be one today.  I was about finished and thought I'd poke around a few more driveways in this plaza and I had just started to say, "the last time I came through here I f....." and there it was at my feet.  Ha!  How does He do that?!  Well, actually I know, that was just rhetorical. Ok, as for tools, I found a decent pair of needle nose pliers and a handy little wrench.  And....a small Swiss Army Knife.  It's perfect for all those time when you only want to Swiss Army a little.  So, there you go!

     There also was an "Etched Crystal Nail File With Case" which I found in a CVS driveway, guess this one never made it home.  It was definitely nut in the road day, 13 regular or with a collar, 1 lug nut, and one nut to pick them all up.  And there were three sockets and one socket adapter, can you ever have enough sockets (no honey...I wasn't asking you, that was just rhetorical.  Thank you for the eye roll though!)

The Every Day, Run o' The Mill, Your Regular Old, Pretty Much Average, Nuthin Special, Deals : 04 01 2022

     

   Hard to believe this is post #75! Keep in mind that I make reference to previous blog posts a lot especially the 'hitting for the cycle' thing. I'll try to either reference the blog date or explain the common thread to help explain some of this craziness.  

     Today I ran a route that I've run on 3/28, 3/25, and 3/18 most recently.  I wasn't expecting all this!!  It's probably a record for found change, $9.49!  $8.78 came near the end of the run and was in the grass between the back of the sidewalk with a gas station parking lot directly behind.  AND in the same spot I found an UNO card game 50th anniversary gold coin (it's in the upper right).  Not a scratch on it.  How does that stuff find me???? 35 quarters, 3 pennies, and a collector's coin.  And that's in addition to the regular coinage I 'run' across every day, which in today's case was a pretty normal 2 quarters, 3 nickels and 6 shiny pennies.  I do not know, but I'm thankful, Creator of all things, for all these symbols of your infinite abundance.  Yah Hoo!!

     There were a number of finds that would definitely be car related, the lug nut, the car key, and the gas cap.  The car key was in the driveway of a gas station which makes me wonder, how did they drive off without the car key?  The orange thing on the left says "Multi Wedge" and according to 'Da Googles' it's part of a three-piece pry-bar kit which runs $14.12, which would make mine a $4.70 Mono-Wedge.  There was also a room key-card at Stay America extended suites.  Hopefully they won't charge 'Zippy' for having to create a second room key.

     I've found quite a few micro fiber cloths on my runs, but I didn't have a white one.  Now I do.  I also found an extremely small pencil with a mostly unused eraser today.  I wonder, if you use really big paperclips and big pencils for the really big deals, I suppose then that the really tiny pencils (they don't like to called nubs!) would be for the every day, run o' the mill, your regular old, pretty much average, nuthin special, deals.  I suspect there's more of them than the big deals, hence the really short pencil.