What I found by the side of the road

I think somebody got them for bag lunches. Which would mean that some husband or kid is going to have to do without dessert in their lunch box this coming week. Who knows, it could be just the thing that family needed to push them into unexplored territory, hehehehe.

Lol... yup, you could be right. Perhaps they should be eating fruit or yoghourt for dessert! lol.

Hahahaha, I see you caught my drift... yeah, fruit or yogurt would definitely be a healthier choice! I can't even imagine dropping a bag of M&M's in my kids lunch box! I wouldn't tell them they couldn't eat them, but I certainly wouldn't be providing it for them! I make an applesauce/carrot cake that would make excellent cupcakes! It is loaded with carrots, applesauce made from the apples on our own trees, raisins, dates, walnuts from our own tree, and a blend of my favorite whole grain flours. I make icing out of cream cheese, sour cream and maple syrup... made from the sap of the trees that grow all around me. Hehehe... it's still got plenty of fat and sugar (I use evaporated cane juice or maple sugar) but it is packed with wholesome nutrients from nature's own bounty. Can't say that for this almond dipped in creamy chocolate and covered with a hard candy shell, hehehehe... I find myself wondering if its indeed a real almond! Gawd, I sound like a Martha Stewart wannabe... the health nut version. Maybe I should have my own tv show... I'll call it "Empowering Choices Even YOU Can Make" or something equally condescending.

I find your $20 discovery much sweeter than the m and m's and much more satisfying. :) I also picked up some "fresh" asparagus at the store and will have it Sunday. gotta plant some... I think it takes 2 years.

Wow--you were sure lucky that wad of money was still there

It takes a few years for an asparagus patch to get going. These patches by the side of the road have been growing for years and years. I have clipped all the tall grass growing around them down real short so I can more easily see the sprouts when they start coming up. I am certain to get a nice haul unless I have just made it easier for some other forager to come along and collect up my little treasures before I get a chance to! I thought I would be eating M&M's for days, but I gave a couple packets to my mother and except for one pack I have gobbled up the rest all in one night! I was shopping one day and for some reason I was carrying money in my hand, I think it was something like 100 bucks, more or less, but it was a good chunk of money. I have no idea why it was in my hand. Anyway, while looking for a nice canteloupe I laid it down! And then walked away without it!! Something like 10 minutes later I realized I was no longer holding that money in my grubby little fist! In a panic I retraced my steps and there it was, obediently waiting for me right there under the bright lights of the cantaloupe bin. It was like the solo performer spotlighted on the stage it was that obvious!

Sorry, finders keepers! On the other hand I really can't think of any use for yet another voice in my head so maybe I would send it scurrying back home to you. Although I would probably be more inclined to studiously ignore that phantom wandering without purpose up and down these mountain roads!

Yeah, I am definitely enjoying my M&M's! A little too much actually, I am going to have to use some discipline and save some for tomorrow, hehehehe. I was wondering how they could have got there myself. A lot of people around here drive pick-ups, but I can't think that someone would put groceries in their truck and not close it up. Another possibility is that a driver of one of the trucks that delivers stuff to the little grocery stores around here could have set it on the back of his truck and forgot to put it away. It sure is a mystery to me how they got there! But no way am I gonna let paranoia ruin my fun!!!

Well, up here in the mountains where everybody knows each other it is not too likely that they would be poisoned, I've already eaten 3 or 4 packages and I'm still alive so far, and feeling pretty good besides!

Hehehe. It's good to hear that. People in cities are a lot different LOL. Enjoy your M&M's... :-)

Hahahahaha... that's very funny! I was laughing so hard I couldn't even light my cig! Although to test you I would ask you what town in Oregon you lost your stool in, and what mountain road in Virginia you lost your M&Ms on, and how many years spanned between... and if you answered those questions correctly I would be stupefied and would from that moment forward consider you a long lost friend and think it was about time we communicated in words rather than a mystery trail of mysterious clues... although it's really fun trying to figure out what you might be trying to tell me with these cryptic messages! "Ummm a footstool... what? Are you trying to say I need some rest? OK, now some M&Ms... hmmmm I get it! You're saying I am sweet as candy!!" My daughter dropped her purse once on her way to work, which had all of her christmas shopping money in it! When she got to work and discovered it missing she was pretty distressed, to put it mildly. She retraced her steps back to our apartment building where the security guard asked her if she had lost her purse. Someone had found it on the sidewalk and turned it in at the front desk of our apartment building for some reason... maybe she had dropped it right out in front, I'm not sure, but I'm glad they did that because it would have never occurred to us to call the police! And yeah, I would definitely not feel comfortable keeping money if I found it in a wallet with somebody's id and credit cards in it. It would feel much better to see or imagine their joy in recovering it!

No, I do not feel the slightest bit guilty. I am learning to thoroughly enjoy everything that comes my way without any compunction whatsoever. If you had REALLY wanted that stool it would have been in the RV with you when you drove off! And regarding the M&Ms in Virginia... if they were expecting them for prizes at some Easter Festival in Oregon they wouldn't have got them nohow, whether I ate them or not... unless you could have somehow made a 3000 mile drive in a day and a half!!

Well lets see..hmmm..it was quite a long time ago when I lost the stool so I cant quite remember...You know, the memory is always the first thing to go. But as I recall, I was driving up the west coast of Oregon when I lost it...it was the cutest little folding stool..I sure do miss it As for the M&Ms...since you found them, I dont need to tell you on which road now do I?...lol..I bought them for easter and had travelled up River Rd. I was going to the park in Eugene..You know, where they are holding the easter events this year!..But someone will be out a prize cause YOU ate it!!! How was that? Do you feel guilty yet??..I know for certain that I lost that foot stool, on that road where you found it, thats where!!

I think you found part of someone's grocery shopping, as you said.;)

I'm wondering about that now, because yesterday I went back up the road to check on the asparagus again, and about 1/2 mile from the big 'M&M spill' there was another pile with just a couple bags of M&Ms and this time there were 4 cans of Mountain Dew along with it!!! Maybe I should get on my bike and ride WAY up the road to see if they lost little piles of their groceries all the way home!

That's right, you did find little Gypsy by the side of the road didn't you! Hehehe. There isn't anything like terrorist attacks up here in the mountains where I live, but I have still retained some old 'watch out for this watch out for that' type conditioning, so I did have a moment of indecision. In the end I decided that I would rather take a chance on love rather than succumb to fear, hehehe, and so far so good, as I have consumed the entire stash and am still alive and kicking!

Yeah, I am reminded of a poem by my all time favorite poet, Robin Williamson. It goes like this: My friend from the court of louis he wears around his neck a little silver fish it moves and wriggles in all its joints next day I find one almost the same I wear it for a month and a day riding on a black horse in the kentucky woods the string breaks and the little fish falls in the long weeds some day someone will find it there a little girl I think I lost a big beautiful crockpot once. I didn't lose it by the side of the road exactly, but it did involve me getting on down the road. I figure I left it behind in the back of some cupboard. Everytime I think of that crockpot I have to hope some new tenant moved in and could hardly believe their good fortune when they found it there, hehehe. That's another of my favorite places to find stuff... in houses or apartments where tenants have recently vacated. I once found a beautiful (and valuable) ring on the top shelf of the bathroom medicine cabinet in an apartment I moved into. I wore it on my 'goddess finger' for a year or so, then one day I lost it... while I was hanging clothes out on the line I think. I don't believe anybody will find that ring for a long time since the guy who bought the house from me is a pale skinned computer 'nerd' who does not spend too much time out of doors. His son is not much different. At least I found another ring to take it's place... and it's amber besides!

Boy, there is a belief that sounds to me like it could use changing! I LOVE finding things! It is one of my most absolute favorite things! How do you expect to find a house if you believe you are not a good 'finder'???

50 bucks is a great find! And yeah, letting things find you sounds like an excellent plan... and a very useful belief to cultivate!! Start by proving it to yourself, if you haven't already. Most of my dearest treasures found me.

How did you turn less exciting into not a good "finder" I found a house, but the government said I couldn't have it, now someone else lives there already. 3 more to look at tomorrow now, I know I said 2 earlier but now it is three. All right, exciting things I have found. Used to find money all the time, just laying on the ground. Even a $50 dollar bill one day in the weeds by the schools foot ball field. What else. I don't think I stop when I see things on the side of the road. Maybe I should start. My house will find me. Things find me, I don't have to go looking, they find me.

Well, even if I had seen the vehicle it fell out of the only way I could have given it back was if I knew who drove that car, or if I could have got their attention with a bunch of yelling and waving of my arms, because certainly I could not run so fast after their car... huffing and puffing as I ran up to their window with an armload of M&Ms! A hundred dollar bill is a nice find!!!