First Australian coin found

I walked through a Fred Meyer parking lot back to my truck this afternoon. I noticed two shiny, metallic objects on the pavement and had to stop. When I reached down to scoop up my finds, a lady chuckled. I told her, "I have to pick them up!" She said, "well of course you do!" I noticed that they were Canadian coins; a dime and a nickel. As I put the coins in my camera bag, I found out that the dime was actually a 5 cent Australian coin to my amazement. These two coins were side by side, obviously dropped by someone that didn't want either coin. The Australian five-cent coin is smaller than a nickel, but slightly larger than a dime in case anyone was interested. Queen Elizabeth II is also on both the Canadian coin and Australian coin.

Daily total find: $.20 (doesn't include the Aussie)

Grand total to date: $32.07

134 finding days averages out to $.24 per day

Trick or treat?

It's Halloween and the morning began with Max's playoff game. They ended up losing 13-0. It was a great season and a lot of fun to participate as an assistant coach. Claire helped out with videoing on every other game, so it was a fun family event. We ended up hunting throughout the day finding $.62 (2 quarters and 12 pennies)in various places.

Andrea helped get Max ready for Halloween by painting up his face in camouflage. We went through the city of Bothell's parade scooping up some candy and seeing all of the cool displays. Then Andrea took us through the Highlands neighborhood for the real candy.

The rest of the night featured the movie "Ice Age-Dawn of the Dinosaurs."

The treat of the day landed Max a bunch of candy and the $.62. The trick was when Max found a Chinese coin in a coin return that he thought was a quarter. A great end to a Halloween!

Total daily find: $.62
Grand total to date: $28.62
111 finding days averages out to $.25 per day

Hallow's Eve brings in the coins!

It was a grand day at work and school for the family. Claire's students kept her busy-and spirit week turned out to be a success. I was checking in on both of our jobs-going back and forth a couple of times for dump and supplier runs and needed to stop for fuel. This was the only stop for the day that I had some spare hunting time. While I was fueling up at an AM/PM Station, I ran over to the air/water station and found $.27 (quarter and two pennies. At the end of Claire's day, she ended up finding a quarter in the hallway of the school.

We ended up going to Max's Halloween happening at his school. He dressed up in an old army uniform of mine that Claire altered. All of the students, teachers and parents thought that Max's make-up was the best....thanks to Claire!

We didn't get a chance to eat dinner-and it was late, so we stopped by the local Taco Bell and grabbed the goods. The hunt was not on at the Halloween happening, so Max wanted to hit the car wash on the way home. Claire and Max ended up finding the two pennies. Hallow's Eve ended up bringing in $.54 for the day!

Daily total $.54

Grand total to date: $28.00

110 finding days averages out to $.25 per day

Job site brings in an extra $.21 today!

The Lincoln Penny Project pulls in a little extra! We have a couple of jobs going right now; a siding and a roofing job. I also had a call from one of our commercial building accounts for a leak repair that I went out on. It appeared that the HVAC crew left me a little change on a mechanical unit-one dime, a nickel and six pennies. That was it for the day....

Daily total: $.21

Grand total to date: $27.46

109 finding days averages out to $.25 per day.