Day #586 - Balanced

Wake up alarms at 5 AM? This is NOT how I envisioned my “Leave of Absence”.

We needed to be at the cabin by 7 AM this morning for the delivery of the new fridge (within a window of 7-11 AM). By 6 AM we were at Starbucks. Doc said to the Penny Angels, “Gotta have a coin here”. He found a nickel by the trashcan outside. (Coin #1)

Meanwhile I was searching the Chick-fil-A, but didn’t find any coins. So I did a SingSong. (It almost always works). “Hey Penny Angels won’t you come out to play, come out to play …” and there was a nickel in my pathway in the parking lot! (Coin #2) I said “Thank You! Would you like to play it again?” “Hey Penny Angels won’t you come out to play? ….” And there was a penny balanced on top of the curb of a planter bed. (Coin #3)

Then I walked past the Carl’s Jr. drive up window. No coins there either! So I kept walking and found a drowned penny in the gutter. (Coin #4)

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At 8:45 the new fridge was delivered. It took them less than 10- minutes to carry out the old fridge, uncrate the new one, carry it into the cabin, change the door swing, clean it up, plug it in, and complete the paper work. The two guys carefully balanced and carried the fridge on a strap between them. It was an impressive performance. (Which was good since their big parked truck was blocking all traffic on the narrow mountain road).

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Doc said we should not just go home and leave the new fridge untested. So he forced me to go to breakfast with him. I made him stop at 7-11 to search for coins. Two pennies at the air hose area before going into the store, then three pennies under the counter. (Coins #5-9)

We ate breakfast (where Doc had more coffee), then headed back to the cabin to check the fridge. All was well, so at 11:15 we headed down the mountain. Doc stopped at Starbucks before getting on the freeway. We collected a dime and a penny (Coins #10&11).

This afternoon we needed to repair the window we cracked yesterday. We had to carefully balance the window in the van so that we would not have shattered glass everywhere. Then we replaced a lock, met with another contractor, met the door installer at the townhouse, worked on funding for the new house and so forth and so on. Much progress.

Total: 11 Coins P (8), N (2), D (1), Q (0) = 28¢