Hello to everyone and happy Memorial Day day weekend to those in the states. Love those 3 day weekends!!!
I took a vacation day today (deserved it, worked 50 hours in the four days this week... busy working that OT... "Own Time"...lol) I took it to do a major project here at home and I ended up working my butt off. I moved in here last Oct and this place had sat unoccupied for 10 months prior to that, so the aluminium siding on the north side of the house has some major algea growth all over it. My house is 48 feet long so it was a major job hand scrubbing it all off. The neighborhood assn wrote me up for it as an eyesore so I had to get it done. I got quotes and the lowest one was $220 so I did it myself (because I am cheap...lol). I am happy to say, to whole place is nice and clean now. Powerwashed the other three sides too. Has anyone else ever thought this about cleaning? Such a thankless job... you get done, it's clean, and now looks "normal", so to anyone else seeing it, there's no way to tell the effort that went into it, it's invisible. Oh well.
It turned out to be a beautiful afternoon and I finished the "job" around 4pm, started at 7am, so after feeding the kids after school and doing all that parental duty stuff, I rewarded myself with a short hunt. I went to a school that I hit last year. It's fairly close, less then 10 miles, so it was convenient and it's in a richer school dictrict.
My first find, very apt for this Memorial Day holiday, was a small American Flag laying on the ground by the bench, so I picked it up and took it home.
As expected, the finds were coming slow, because I cleaned it out last year, but I managed a few keepers. The coolest was this teeny tiny gold coin. It's a 1853 "California Gold - 1/2 dollar". It is the smallest coin I have ever found and I am so happy to have passed over the exact place it lay. It is about half the size of a dime. My hats off to Bootstrap Vinn for his find of an authentic Calif Gold coin up in the banner, these suckers are small. You Da Man Vinn!!! Unlike his, mine is a replica I am pretty sure. It does not have "copy" on it like most replicas but it doesn't look old. It might be real gold though
maybe 10kt?? I am happy anyway. It's a cool and exciting MD'ing find. Other than that, I did manage two nice sterling keepers. A double heart "sterling" earring and a "925" heart locket. For an hour and a half hunt, I did pretty good.
I got a few other trinket jewelry pieces including a cheap-o ring. I also found a Sac $1 coin, my first this year and a very interesting Magician coin. It's the thickness of a nickel but a little bigger than a dime and has a a magicians hat on one side and a magic wand with stars around it on the other, cool. I also found a 2 cent 1999 Euro coin. I managed $4.02 in clad - 36 coins and had a great time out there too. Here's some photos of today's finds.
I plan to go out tomorrow moring if the rain holds off. Maybe hit the rich side of town and cover a school or two I hit last summer, maybe cover the soccer fields there too? Good luck to you all. Thanks for reading and happy hunting!
Smiles!
BDoo
I took a vacation day today (deserved it, worked 50 hours in the four days this week... busy working that OT... "Own Time"...lol) I took it to do a major project here at home and I ended up working my butt off. I moved in here last Oct and this place had sat unoccupied for 10 months prior to that, so the aluminium siding on the north side of the house has some major algea growth all over it. My house is 48 feet long so it was a major job hand scrubbing it all off. The neighborhood assn wrote me up for it as an eyesore so I had to get it done. I got quotes and the lowest one was $220 so I did it myself (because I am cheap...lol). I am happy to say, to whole place is nice and clean now. Powerwashed the other three sides too. Has anyone else ever thought this about cleaning? Such a thankless job... you get done, it's clean, and now looks "normal", so to anyone else seeing it, there's no way to tell the effort that went into it, it's invisible. Oh well.
It turned out to be a beautiful afternoon and I finished the "job" around 4pm, started at 7am, so after feeding the kids after school and doing all that parental duty stuff, I rewarded myself with a short hunt. I went to a school that I hit last year. It's fairly close, less then 10 miles, so it was convenient and it's in a richer school dictrict.
My first find, very apt for this Memorial Day holiday, was a small American Flag laying on the ground by the bench, so I picked it up and took it home.
As expected, the finds were coming slow, because I cleaned it out last year, but I managed a few keepers. The coolest was this teeny tiny gold coin. It's a 1853 "California Gold - 1/2 dollar". It is the smallest coin I have ever found and I am so happy to have passed over the exact place it lay. It is about half the size of a dime. My hats off to Bootstrap Vinn for his find of an authentic Calif Gold coin up in the banner, these suckers are small. You Da Man Vinn!!! Unlike his, mine is a replica I am pretty sure. It does not have "copy" on it like most replicas but it doesn't look old. It might be real gold though
maybe 10kt?? I am happy anyway. It's a cool and exciting MD'ing find. Other than that, I did manage two nice sterling keepers. A double heart "sterling" earring and a "925" heart locket. For an hour and a half hunt, I did pretty good. I got a few other trinket jewelry pieces including a cheap-o ring. I also found a Sac $1 coin, my first this year and a very interesting Magician coin. It's the thickness of a nickel but a little bigger than a dime and has a a magicians hat on one side and a magic wand with stars around it on the other, cool. I also found a 2 cent 1999 Euro coin. I managed $4.02 in clad - 36 coins and had a great time out there too. Here's some photos of today's finds.
I plan to go out tomorrow moring if the rain holds off. Maybe hit the rich side of town and cover a school or two I hit last summer, maybe cover the soccer fields there too? Good luck to you all. Thanks for reading and happy hunting!
Smiles!
BDoo
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