Spooning but not Forking

Monday, April 28^th, 2025 – Safeway

After last week’s sojourn to Boise, we returned to modern times. This morning was a warm 50°F (10.0°). We think we are finally into Spring, but we’re not turning our backs. We found some roadkill, one rat, two small mice and a snake.

Janet kept the snake and placed it in a large flowerpot that we have in our driveway. Chuck does not know why she does this, and he doesn’t want to know.

In the money category, the week started out well.

There was a dime and a nickel at the drive-thru and another dime and a penny at the food truck for a total of twenty-six cents. Not bad for two-and-a-half hours. No, do not calculate the hourly pay.

Another McDonalds McUrine cup.

We do not understand why this flavor is so popular. Of course, we have not tried it, so who knows? We don’t normally go to McDonalds, but we should order one. “One McUrine please.” “Sorry, those are only for our monthly drug tests. Would you like a job application?”

We found this in the gutter.

What could be lower than a couch potato?

Someone lost a Klean Kanteen.

Twenty-five bucks on Amazon. We’ll put it in our Kloset or Kabinet for safe Keeping until our Kids decide that they Kan use it. ‘K?

And we don’t know what to make of this.

Perhaps we should Keep them with the Klean Kanteen.

Tuesday, April 29^th, 2025 – Park-and-Ride

Today we found a dime.

So we have a finding streak of two. But, we also removed two small mice from the road. And weirdly, later in the day, we found a similar mouse on our patio step. Could it be a message that the Godfather of the Mice is sending us?

But, we did find a tool.

A tiny 1/4-inch socket, about as small as you can go. But it still counts as a tool.

We came across an unopened, 12-ounce strawberry soda.

It was relatively heavy, so we opened it and dumped the contents. Now, if it was a beer, we’d have carried it. Yes, even if it was a 16-ounce beer.

Yet another heavy laughing gas canister.

And it was already empty, so we could not lighten it any further. We carried it about a block and left it at a location to be picked up later in the day.

We found this on the freeway on-ramp.

Evidently someone loved us so much, they left this tote bag for us to pick up. We feel so special.

Wednesday, April 30^rthd, 2025 – Safeway & 100th

Today was a day of doubles. We removed two roadkills from the streets, and found two dimes.

They were at the food truck, which is becoming a big source of income for us.

Then, two urine bottles.

Finally, two articles of clothing.

A pair of gloves and a black shirt. Technically, this could be three articles of clothing, but it would ruin the doubles theme.

Thursday, May 1^st, 2025 – 160th to 124th Street

This morning was a warm 51°F (10.6°C). We picked up a lot of trash, but the streets were recently swept, leaving little for us. We didn’t find any money, but we picked up a tool.

Unfortunately, it had spent too much time on the freeway on-ramp and was very rusty. But it’s still a tool.

We found another owl skull in a ditch.

Every time we find one of these, we wonder if it’s old roadkill we removed. However, we have only found three owls, so probably not.

Friday, May 2^nd, 2025 – 100th Ave NE

This morning was a little cooler, but still very comfortable. We removed a bird and a rat from the streets but we also found some money.

A dime at the drive-thru and a penny at the food truck.

We found another urine cup.

But this one was toy made of foam rubber and only about an inch-and-a-half tall. It’s a mystery to us why they make toy urine cups.

We picked up two condoms, one on each side of a church.

When they say ‘love thy neighbor,’ we don’t think they meant that.

A laptop in a tree.

And it wasn’t even an Apple. The guy’s computer locked up one too many times and he decided to let it branch out.

Saturday, May 3^rd, 2025 – Riverside Drive

Our walk started with a light rain but cleared to a sunny and partly cloudy. We removed another roadkill bird and found some money, barely.

A single penny on the sidewalk near the end of our walk. So, yes, it was a penny-ante walk.

A lost hat.

It will be washed then off to Goodwill.

But why?

Some miscreant lit a fire in the bus stop. He used a bunch of free houses-for-sale pamphlets from a stand behind the bus stop.

We did a good deed this morning.

Three small trees fell across the sidewalk and bike lane. We decided to pull them back into the weeds, but they were heavy. However, the small branches were very brittle, and we were able to break them off the trunks and cleared the walk.

This startled us.

It was sitting on the guardrail near some construction on the off-ramp. It is a decoy falcon used to scare off small birds and pests, $30 on Amazon. It flew off someone’s car, pun intended.

Yes there is!

And we found it. And we found some food in the gutter.

It looked like stuffed bell peppers, and on the grass, the broken bowl that once contained the food. So there is a spoon, just no bowl.

• 68 cents.
• 12 Roadkill including eight rats.  A new weekly roadkill record, thanks to the  rats who gave their all.
• 6 Balls.
• 4 Kept tires, not in the kloset.
• 3 Urine containers.
• 3 or 4 articles of clothing depending on pairing.
• 2 Minimalist tools.
• 2 Condoms having something to confess.
• 1 Gutter potato.
• 1 Klean Kanteen kept in the Kloset with no Kopper Klappers.
• 1 Dumped soda, nonalcoholic.
• 1 Laughing mango.  But we’re not laughing.
• 1 Loving tote bag.
• 1 Skull, but we don’t know whoooose.
• 1 Treed computer.
• 1 Bus stop bonfire.
• 1 Fake falcon.
• 1 Zen spoon.
• 1 Crack pot.

Have a great week and remember, if there is no spoon, just ask the waiter.