Be Kind

Monday, April 1^st, 2024 – Safeway

We had a nice Easter weekend and the weather cooperated with the Easter egg hunts. We hid 83 plastic eggs in our yard of two sizes, twelve large ones for our four-year-old grandchild and the rest small eggs for the older kids. Janet was the Easter Bunny’s accountant and validated the counts before the hunt. After Chuck, the Easter Bunny, hid the eggs and the hunt proceeded, we had an accounting of all the eggs and for the first time in our years of doing this, we had the correct count of 83!

Then it was pointed out that there were thirteen, not twelve big eggs. So, now we don’t know if there is another egg out there or not. The Easter Bunny has an opening for a new accountant.

On to Monday. Today was another nice morning, a little warmer with no rain. There was a lot of trash, but little of interest

Some kind soul gave us the shirt off his back.

Or maybe he was leaving us a message. If so, it should say Mostly Kind. We have our moments.

This is a rarity. We often find lost earrings, but do not remember finding a matching pair.

They blended into the sidewalk, but sparkled in the flashlight which is why we spotted them. There was a name on the back, Kendra Scott, and we were able to track them down on the KendraScott.com site.

Okay, not a top-drawer luxury item, but not chopped liver either. Apologies to those who like chopped liver. We’ll watch for any queries on social media, but with both found together, it appears someone tossed them on purpose. They must not like chopped liver.

Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2024 – Park-and-Ride

Today we had an appointment at 8:30 am and cut our walk short and did not find anything of interest. At least that we know of. However, later in the afternoon we decided to explore Chuck’s vest pocket.

No credit cards this week, but did find more Pokémon cards. We don’t know the game, but these cards must have a limited valuable lifetime with the number we find. A MetaZoo card which we have also found before. According to Wikipedia, the goal is to “…Like many trading card games, the goal of MetaZoo is to reduce the Life Points of all opponents from 1000 to 0.” That sounds very negative. How about a goal to reach 1000 before your competitors. Then they all die a horrible death. Okay, the first goal may not be that bad.

We picked up four playing cards, three, four, four and six. Is it too late to get our ante back? Then a writing implement, a couple of spectacle parts and a cell phone. But not really, just part of the touch screen assembly. We looked for more parts, but that was it.

Then, the usual hair control clips and bands, a smashed Subaru emblem next to an AA Twelve-Step coin, hopefully they are not connected. A dime bag with 4:20 printed on it. We’ve covered the meaning of the time 4:20 before. It seems appropriate.

Then, there are some random small toys including a watermelon, a raccoon, and a well-runover marble.

Next, there is the folded paper on the folded right. That might be interesting. We unfolded it and found another game.

We can see a couple of dragons in there, but the small symbols didn’t appear to define any strategy. There was a URL for FlossyFoxShop, an Etsy site that sells cross-stitch patterns. Glad we didn’t try to solve the game. we could have gotten all our wires crossed (stitched).

Wednesday, April 3^rd, 2024 – Safeway & 100^th Ave NE

This morning was cool in the low forties with a slight mist. At the midpoint of our walking week, we again found no money. Come on, folks, get out there and spread some change around.

At Safeway, Janet spotted something under the bushes about eight feet off the sidewalk. Chuck low-crawled under berry bushes and other sharp objects and pulled out the items.

Great, an orange-delivery tray, a plastic bag, and a ball. The ball looked like a giant orange that tied the scene together. There was also a small box of raisins. That made the whole effort worthwhile. The density of the trees and berry bushes was such that we could not toss the ball over the fence, so we walked until there was a clear view of a random fence and tossed the ball over. Let them deal with it.

We did find a tool.

A Stanley screwdriver in reasonable condition. Behind sockets, screwdrivers are the second most found tool we have, and we have a lot.

We found two empty cough medicine bottles together.

Walgreens Dye-Free Custom DM. Probably an underage kid trying to get a high from cough syrup. Not the brightest idea.

At the Tolt Pipeline Trail, someone lost a beachball.

We Googled Sambica. It’s a kids’ Christian camp about twenty miles away from here. On their website,

“SAMBICA is a non-denominational Christian camp and retreat location [sic] on the shores of Lake Sammamish. In the summers we offer 10 weeks of thrilling summer camps on water and host numerous youth retreats, camps, and events throughout the school year.”

They should have a retreat on proofreading.

Thursday, April 4^th, 2024 – 160^th to 124^th Street

Today was cooler and dry, and someone listened to us yesterday. We found some money.

A nickel in the middle of the street. We’ll take it.

We also found a tool.

A very rusty Torx drill bit, but it still counts as a tool. According to the Code of TrashWalking Regulations, CTR14, Tools, Paragraph 3, Disqualification of an object as a tool, plainly states that the amount of rust on a tool cannot disqualify a tool unless it cannot act in its primary use or it cannot be a substitute for another tool, such as using a rusted Crescent wrench as a hammer. So, this is a tool.

Someone brought some ambiance to our walk this morning.

They thoughtfully left us a candle to brighten our morning. Okay, it was battery operated, but it was still shining brightly in the night. Thank you.

Friday, April 5^th, 2024 – 100^th Ave NE

Today we had a light mist throughout our walk, but it was still comfortable. We didn’t find any money at the gas station, but Janet was able to tease money out of her favorite drive thru.

Three dimes and three pennies which brings us to a total for the week of thirty-eight cents so far. Not much, but we did find some drugs.

A partially-smoked pre-roll joint and a jar of PB & Jam Monster Banana vaping juice. The vape juice is nearly full and is selling for about thirteen dollars online. We don’t partake of this stuff, so if anyone is interested, we will let it go cheap. Say, both for five bucks? Let us know.

Along Juanita-Woodinville Way, we found a pair of socks.

These will be washed and sent to Goodwill. We also found a pair of car parts.

A generic wheel cover in good condition. We left it in plain sight on the off chance that the owner will see it. However, we will probably pick it up next week. Hopefully not in pieces in the middle of the street. The lug nut did not come loose, the wheel stud sheared-off, probably due to over-tightening. Not good.

And to wrap up today’s walk, a urine bottle on Simonds Road.

The urine bottles we find are normally water bottles. This is a tea bottle. It’s a bad idea to leave urine in a bottle labelled tea.

Saturday, April 6^th, 2024 – Riverside Drive

We didn’t come up with any more money on our walk today, and we needed to remove a roadkill bird from the street. We picked up a lot of clothing.

A sweatshirt on Riverside Drive, and on the freeway ramps, a pink lady’s tank top, a Best Plumbing cap, and some baby clothes. Why does a plumber’s cap need to be camouflaged, anyway? There was also a teething toy with the baby clothes.

Nine bucks on Amazon.

At the Bothell parking lot, someone dumped two large cases and we opened one up.

They are portable massage tables.

The tables look like they’ve been well-used and are ready for retirement, but to just dump them to become someone else’s problem just rubs us the wrong way.

We went over a month without finding urine bottles and now we find two in two days.

At least this one’s in a water bottle.

Finally, we came upon this.

We were a bit wary of it. We’ve seen the YouTube videos of the Mark Rober’s glitter bombs,

But it could be a fan leaving us a gift to show their appreciation like folks that wave and honk at us every day.

Or the box could just be empty. Which it was. Oh, well.

That wraps up our walking week. Our take,

• 38 Cents
• 13 Mikes Hard Lemonade cans.
• 10 Balls, all but two returned to obvious homes.
• 9 Articles of clothing
• 3 Drug-related items.
• 2 Tools.
• 2 Urine bottles.
• 2 Massage tables that “kneaded” a new home.
• 1 Roadkill bird.
• 1 Pair of earrings not chopped liver.
• 1 Ambience candle, electric.
• 1 Gift that left us feeling empty.

Have a great week and remember, don’t rub anyone the wrong way.