And wish you could take home.

The first thing I had to pass up on Friday's ride was a nice roll of wire screen, all bound up with tape, about 2.5 feet long. It would have been handy for screening garden soil, but would have torn the bejesus out of my lycra.

About 10 miles later I had to ride right by a perfectly good hard hat in the ditch! Not that I need a hard hat, exactly , but my 6 year old would love it . And there would just be something so novel about having a hard hat that I found by the road, ya know? I actually contemplated ways to carry it for a few minutes !

What have you left (or not) by the wayside?