Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 22, 2024

Dusting rags.

Makes Friday’s strip memorably bad

socks collection …. dare anyone asks the dead man WHY he collected them!? o_O

Is there also moth-eaten underwear in there, too?

Socks! All we got was socks! I should have joined Clayton and watched his movie instead.

Not sure when the name change came about as we are 1770s reenactors – but if they from the 1700s or before they are stockings not socks.

It’s only Monday. What’s under those sockos, pops!

Probably crankshaft’s coin socks for paying the paper-boy

It wasn’t a man who died there. It was Goldie Hawn…….

Now I kow where to look for my lost brown socks.

I bet the chest itself is worth more than its contents.

Is it all socks?

Maybe the treasure is fragile and the socks are there to protect it

Toon in tomorrow…

Maybe…ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S ratty old brown dress socks!?! (nah, they’d be dust by now, no?)

The holes bring down the value?

Darn it!

Somewhere, the guy who planted that is laughing.

But what is underneath those ratty, moth-eaten, brown socks? A special treasure or another disappointing comic day?

Anybody know what symbol is on Dad’s tee shirt?

Keep looking. People used to hide money in their socks when they didn’t trust banks. Just like you never throw out someone’s old mattress without cutting it open first. Yes, I’m that old.

So that’s where the dryer orphan socks end up.

In a very minor way, something similar happened to me. After my father died, we discovered a Safety-Deposit Key, so we went down to the Bank and opened the box… Empty.

Maybe there’s something wrapped up in the socks.

I was expecting it to be another box. With yet another box inside. And so on, and so on, and so on….

He’s discovered the secret Moth Homeworld! They probably have a hole civilisation there!

This is some Al Capone’s “vault” stuff. Where’s Geraldo?

It was his secret moth collection.

It’s a little early for the disappointment, there has to be some intrigue before the real disappointment.

Basically, a box.

Brown? Look more like white to me. Oh, wait, maybe it’s just a white shade of brown?

The socks could be protecting something…

Don’t mend them, it’ll ruin the value. (That’s my excuse anyway)

We have misplaced the second key to our safe deposit box. We are closing the box and we need the key or they will charge us something like US$150. So we have been looking for it in places that make sense and those which do not.

The other day we actually drove to the bank where we have a new box and contents had been transferred to and opened the new box and took everything out just in case we put it in there.

Today after having searched just about everywhere else we can think of we went through everything on the top of husband’s chest of drawers – piece by piece. Similar to their treasure chest we found an odd assortment of remembered and not remembered items.

Sentimental items – he has a large wicker box on top of his dresser with many things in it plus what was on top of the dresser on it’s own – old valentine cards from me were among the items he found, standing on the dresser – also angel I made him once and some other doll type items either he or I made. His big Thomas Jefferson doll was listing a bit as he does not really stand (by the end of the day I had a found a doll stand in my bedroom closet to help Tom stand straight). Wooden pens he had turned for himself. About 6 or 7 watches – pocket and wrist – which no longer work. Puzzle box (had great hopes he had put the key in same – nope). Old pairs of eyeglasses. Etc.

But no missing key! Have gone through my dresser, jewelry box, our “take to bank envelope”, lock box etc prior with the same result twice before during this week.

We do have a problem the last several years with “fairies”. Things disappear and then reappear – we are hoping this happens and does so before the end of June.