Subway Dime

I work in Rexdale now. There isn't much around my office - not like when I was working downtown and had many options for going on lunchtime strolls, even in winter. In Rexdale, if I want a lunchtime adventure, I have to drive.

Today, I drove to a grocery store not far from where I work. I picked a few things but still needed to get some lunch. I slept in so didn't have time to make my lunch so I decided to pick up a sub. I paid for my lunch and noticed a dime (2005) on the floor by the counter and quickly scooped it up.

Total: 10¢

All frosty and wet

Happy New Year. My first find in 2014

I've been off work for the last couple of weeks. I save my vacation time so I could be off between Christmas and New Year. Today was my first day back. It was nice to see my co-workers. The work on my desk was not as nice. So much paper work to do and so little time to do it all. 

I like to go out at lunch time - gets me out of the office and I get some fresh air. Today my lunch time adventures took me south. I wandered around HomeSense. I had a mission. I am looking for a lampshade for a lamp in our rev-room.  They had lampshades but nothing that would match the lamp.

When I returned to the office, I found a well-worn penny in our parking lot. The year and country of origin in not clear as this penny was flattened and a bit green. I think I made out a faint outline of a maple leaf. Interesting that I would still be finding lost pennies even though the Canadian government took them out of circulation. The penny was soggy, cold and wet but it dried and quickly warmed up in my pocket. :)

Total 1¢

Busy Saturday

Can you spot the dime?

I did a lot of running around today (Dec 21/13). Christmas a days away and there is so much to do and so little time to do it in. And stores and malls are jam packed full of people.

I took my mother shopping in the morning. There was a number of stores we had to hit and one of them was Loblaw. It was in the Loblaw parking lot I had my first find - a 2009 dime. Lucky for me it wasn't in a puddle, just beside a puddle.

Later, I was at my local Dollarama buying some gift bags and stuff. When I was leaving the store, I found my second find of the day - a 2010 dime.

Total 20¢

(Another post delayed due to the missing camera cable)

Appointments

Thursday, I had the day off work to do stuff. The day started with a visit to Dr. Sheldon Nadal. He's the one who performed my bunionectomy and it was my three month follow up visit. He needed to check out how my foot was healing and it's healing well.

Next, I took my daughter to her doctor's appointment. From there we drove to Brampton to get my husband's Christmas gift. A friend's sister (Kelly McNeil) is an artist and has a studio in Beaux-Arts in Brampton. I found what I was looking for and needed to get to a bank machine to get some cash to pay her. 

There was a bank just up the street from the studio. At the bank, I found a 1975 dime just under the ATM.

Total 10¢

(I wrote this post a few weeks back but couldn't find the camera cable to upload the picture - cable found, picture uploaded and blog posted - sorry for the delay)

Bike coins

Not having found coins for so long, I've gotten out of the blogging habit. And now that I work in the suburbs, lost coins are far and few between. When I do find a coin or two, it takes a few days for the slug in me to get around to write about it.

On Monday (December 9), I took the day off work to write a test for an online course I'm taking. Part of the requirement is we have to write the final at the college. I took the GO train downtown and walked from Union Station to the college. Being the first to write the test, I discovered all the issues. I was sent away (since they couldn't find the test) and asked to return. This gave them time to figure out what happened. 

I walked from the college to my old work location to meet my former workmates for lunch. Enroute I found a salt covered penny (year unknown) on the south side of Front Street, just west of the St. Lawrence Market.

We had lunch at a place called Dazzling - good food, nice selection of lunch specials and not expensive. (I had a spring roll and red curry veges. It also came with a salad-very yummy). And best of all, I got to catch up with my workmates. On my walk back to the college, I found a 2008 quarter near the entrance to the subway on the south west corner of King and Yonge.

As you will note from the pictures, both coins were found near bikes, although one bike has definitely seen better days.

Total 26¢.

Down under

So in yesterday's post, I mentioned how I was housebound for almost two months thereby limiting my ability to find lost coins.

I'm back at work and this post is a wee bit tardy. Part of the reason is getting back into blogging, pre-occupation with an online course I'm taking, and the lost camera cable. I put it in a safe place, a place so safe I couldn't remember where it was. Yesterday, the safe place and the cable were located. I didn't want to blog without accompanying photos - how boring would that be. 

Now back to the lost coins.  I'm back at work as of 3 1/2  weeks ago. There have been some changes in the office and I've been moved to a new workstation. While packing up my belongings, namely the box I rest my feet on, I spotted some coins under my desk. Not sure how long the 2008 dime and 1995 penny were there but there was a sprinkling of dust on them.

Total 11¢

Back from my hiatus

Way back in September I had foot surgery - I had a bunion removed from my right foot. As per doctor's orders - no driving, no working, no gym, no walking for six weeks. This pretty well left me house bound. I ventured to very few places while my foot healed.  I had my weekly visits to see Dr. Nadal, the podiatrist who performed the surgery. He changed the bandages and checked to foot to see how it was healing. No coins found during these visits. I did a lot of hobbling around the house. Not a lot of lost coins in the house.

My daughter, who attends the University of Ottawa, was home for Thanksgiving weekend. We were driving her back (I couldn't drive but went along for the ride). Before the drive back home, we decided to get a bite to eat.  I was dropped off in front of restaurant (couldn't walk far and it was raining and I didn't want to get my bandage wet. It was near the restaurant in the Byward Market that I found a 2007 dime.

A couple weeks later, we went to a friend's cottage in Tiny Township. My ability to walk at this point had improved so we went on a quick walk to the beach. (My walking was kept to a minimum as my foot hurt if I walked too much). My dog had a great time. I let her off leash and let her run. Glad she didn't go in the water. It was there I found a  2010 nickel. The dog was checking something out; I went to get her and spotted the dime on the beach. And no, she wasn't checking out the coin, not sure what she was checking out. 

Total 15¢