On the right side of the track

What a bad day. I got up and arrived at the train station with time to spare. I was walking to the platform and there was not a soul in site. There was no mass exodus just me and one other person who looked just as confused as I felt. We both check the schedule and it turns out we missed the train by three minutes. They had changed the time on a few of the departure times so my early train now leaves 5 minutes earlier. And I am so not a morning person.

Anyway, now that I had time to spare, I decided to walk to the benches to have a seat and read my book. And there, I spotted a penny (year 1999) near the tracks. Maybe the morning wasn't so bad after all.

On the Line

My didn't start off very well today. I was having the best sleep. Felt my dog jump on the bed so I peeled my eyes open, looked at the alarm clock and panicked. Seems I turned off the alarm in error and about the time I should be leaving the house, I was just getting up. That was the bad thing.

The good thing was I found a penny in the GO parking lot. I was leaving spot where I parked my car and was rushing to the train platform when I spotted it, lying on the line - a US penny. I'm having trouble uploading the picture I took of it. Will try tomorrow. Perhaps the technology will be more co-operative tomorrow.

Guess what, today is tomorrow and technology cooperated.
 Here's the picture:

Friday's Finds

I found 11¢ on Friday but I didn't have time to write about them til today (Sunday).

The first coin was found during my morning break. My friend and I decided to take a walk around the block since it was such a lovely morning. In front of the David Pecaut Square sign I spotted a 1974 penny. It was resting beside a screw. What was a screw doing on King Street and where did it come from? Good questions to which I have not the answers.

We are thinking about getting another car. We went to a dealership in our neighbourhood and took a Nissan 370 Roadster for a test drive - fun car, small but fun. When we returned to the dealership and I was talking my purse out of the back, I spotted a dime beside the driver's seat. Don't know if it was mine and fell out of my purse or it fell out of the pocket of a previous test driver. In any case, it's mine now - a 2011 dime found in a 2011 car.

Better than a penny

What a hot day today was - high of 30 but felt like 39. Almost felt like you were melting. 

One of the nice thing about summer in the city is all the activity that abounds.

I went on my usual lunch time stroll. On my way back to the office I decided to detour into Tim Horton's and get a lemonade - mmmmm yum. Very refreshing for a hot day like today. When I left Timmies,  I could hear music so I went to check it out. On Duncan, just north of King they were filming something so I went to investigate. And who should I see bouncing around on the roof of a car, dressed in a black jacket in this sweltering heat - Jake Hoggard of Hedly. He's much cuter in person than on the screen. They were filming a music video. I tried to snap a photo of him but every time I snapped my camera, he turned his head. 

So no coins today but here's a photo of Jake in action. 

Sunday Cent

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and potential father's out there.

I did some quick grocery shopping today - just needed to pick up a few things for lunches but of course you always wind up picking up a few extra things and next thing you know your bill is huge. The grocery store is actually a great place to hang out in this hot, muggy weather. It's nice and cool inside.

Anyway, I bought my stuff, left the store, unloaded the bags from the cart into my car and wandered over to the cart depot to return my cart. When I returned to my car, the vehicle that was beside me left and in it's spot was a 2000 penny.  Lucky me. But I forgot my camera at home so sadly no photo.

The Office Dime

This morning, I'm at work walking out of our kitchen to my workstation when I notice a coin by the wall between our kitchen and the stock room. Because my hands are full (have my teapot and my mug), I can't pick it up.

I put my stuff on my desk, grab my camera, return to the location of the lost coin, snap a picture and pocket the coin which happens to be a 2011 US dime and return to my workstation.

Not a bad way to start my day - a dime richer.

By the way, did you know that today was National Flip Flop Day? I kid you not. Hope you celebrated by wearing your favourite flip flops.

The Wellington Pennies

Today was Thursday. It was bright, sunny, not to hot and not muggy at all.  I wouldn't mind it being a few degrees warmer but I'm not complaining.

Do you see it?

I'm not sure what platform my morning train usually uses when it arrives at Union Station but today it was platform Thirteen. Lucky 13, I thought to myself and guess what, it was lucky 13. I found two pennies today.

The first one I found just before I arrived at my building. There's lots of stuff happening around my office building - Luminato and the Thursday Farmers Market has started up. What does that mean? It means lots of trucks, trailers and fencing. I was walking on the north side of Wellington and just before I got to my building penny number one was waiting for me (a 2006 penny).

Here's the other one

The second one I found during my morning break. My co-worker and I were heading to one of the many coffee shops in the area. We headed west on Wellington on the north side of street. We were about 100 or so feet from John Street when I spotted penny number 2. This one was a 2010.

Two for Thursday. Not too bad.