Two, Four, Pics, WAIT! See Val's PENNIES, Celebrate!

Please join me in a virtual high-five for a celebration of this week's penny harvest. If pennies were children, I could have a show on TLC about my multiples!

SATURDAY, too late for the Saturday CENTSus, which had already gone to press (don't think I haven't noticed your little plot, Even Steven)... I found a couple of tardy Lincolns late for the party. I stepped into line at the Backroads Casey's and saw one waiting at the un-open register.

Look past the dance-step decal--I mean the social-distancer--to the metal rack. It's there! I swear.

It was a heads-up 1994 penny, begging me to bend my ample rumpus for a photo. I did.

On the way out, I made ANOTHER discovery!

Where I found the nickel last Wednesday, there was now a PENNY! And it looks like the floor hadn't been swept in the interim. But here's the most HORRIFYING DETAIL! Look out the door, by the mat. I MISSED A QUARTER! To be fair, somebody came in the other door while I was photographing my second cent. So MAYBE they picked it up. Which would explain how I didn't see it as I walked out. My head is always down searching, you know!

Anyhoo... this was a heads-up 2008 penny, wallowing in Wednesday thru Saturday's accumulated filth. While I was taking my closeup and picking up a piece of my Future Pennyillionaire Fortune, the DING DONG kept going off. In fact, the clerk told me I was setting it off. Not in a hateful manner. Good to know. I guess there's a laser sensor or something at foot level, to notify them even if short people are entering.
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MONDAY, August 10, my luck got even better. In fact, it DOUBLED! I stepped out of T-Hoe at the Sis-Town Casey's, and saw FOUR pennies waiting for me in the handicap space.

I hopped out and harvested them like a spry person! Before some needer of that parking spot arrived to battle it out with me over the crop. I nabbed a face-down 1980 penny, and heads-up 1999, 2018, and 1999. So smug was I in my haul that I marched right past AN UNNOTICED ABE in the handicap walkway! It's there. Just zoom in. You'll see it like I did, though you probably won't feel your eyes well up with regret. I suppose THAT penny was meant for someone else to find...
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FRIDAY, August 14, the penny grounds were extra-fertile again. And again, my luck lay with the Sis-Town Casey's. I couldn't get the pics inside where the pennies awaited, because of other people in line. I'm pretty sure a dad is not going to be okay with a crazy old woman taking pictures of the lower half of his grade-school son! As soon as they turned to leave, I grabbed that treasure off the tile and scooted out with the spoils.

The left penny is a 2018, which was found face-down. The right penny is a mint-condition 1960, which was found heads-up at my feet while trying to pay for gas, scratchers, a draw ticket, and redeem some winners. Here they are in T-Hoe, posed on The Pony's Show Me CASH draw ticket for Friday night.

Yes, a good week, worthy of a celebration. 8 PENNIES, for 8 more cents in Val's Future Pennyillionaire coffers.
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2020 RUNNING TOTAL

Penny       # 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.
Dime         still at 14.
Nickel       still at 9.
Quarter    still at 1.

2019 TOTALS
Penny     134
Dime        20
Nickel        8
Quarter      5
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