MONDAY, August 24, this treat was waiting for me inside the Backroads Casey's.
There was a bit of controversy about its harvest.
I was able to nab it, though. A face-down 1978 penny, exposing his coppery rumpus. For my trouble, I was accosted by the masked manager in the back-room office calling out, "Is there a PROBLEM with the gum rack?"
Nope. It provides perfect cover for waiting pennies until I arrive to scoop them up! I insolently pocketed that copper while meeting her above-mask gaze. Nobody sucks the joy out of a Val penny-find! Once outside, safe in T-Hoe, I sighed with relief that she hadn't run out and squeezed my wrist to make me drop it.
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FRIDAY, August 28, I stopped by the School-Turn Casey's while out and about with The Pony, picking up pizza for our lupper. That meal which combines lunch and supper. As I stepped out of T-Hoe, I said, "I'd better take my phone, in case I find a penny!"
It was a filthy specimen, a crusty, face-down 2014. But all pennies are welcome in Val's Future Pennyillionaire Fortune. This one required a sink shower before being allowed to join the collection.
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Only 2 PENNIES, for 2 CENTS this week, but I am happy to have them!
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2020 RUNNING TOTAL
Penny # 104, 105.
Dime still at 15.
Nickel still at 9.
Quarter still at 1.
2019 TOTALS
Penny 134
Dime 20
Nickel 8
Quarter 5
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That woman will probably keep an eye out for pennies now that she knows you will get them.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Not because she WANTS them, but to keep ME from having them!
DeleteYou linked to a Spanish Galleon! I love Galleons and sunken treasure ships. Two of my favourite movies are The Deep, where they find treasure and Fool's Gold, a comedy where they also find treasure, a whole ship load.
ReplyDeleteThe Pony used to love collecting coins from a variety of countries. He also had an interest in sunken treasures.
DeleteI remember The Deep. I liked the book better than the movie, because I read it first. You know how you imagine the characters and surroundings. Sometimes a movie will fit your original concept, and sometimes not.
I read the book first too and still have my original copy. A little battered around the edges, but I'm reading it again now.
DeleteI think my paperback is on a bookshelf in the basement, near the bottom of the 13 steps, next to the piano that used to be my grandma's, that came out of my old elementary school.
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