Frodov
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WhewwwwWEEEEEE! What a scorcher it was here today in Beautiful Central Kentucky! Bright Sunny HOT and HUMID! With the thermometers topping out well into the 90's and the relative humidity in the mid to upper 80% region... ICK! Ok.. so it was more like a sauna than a scorcher, and it would have been damn near unbearable had it not been for the constant breeze blowing this afternoon. A breeze that portent-ed the coming Sever Weather that was predicted and that the National Weather Service put out a "Watch" for, for my neck of the woods. And still.. I went detecting!
With a wary eye on the horizon (from time to time) and half listening for the first rumbles of any distant thunder, I drove a few miles from my home to a local park that hosts my county's annual fair. My wife and I had actually attended the fair this year, on Saturday night. We were both terribly disappointed though, it just wasn't anything like the fairs of yesteryear. No, thanks to the burgeoning immigrant population here in central Kentucky, even the county fairs are taking on a distinctly "South Of The Border" personality if you will. I'm no racist or even a bigot by any stretch of the imagination.. but it's disturbing that you feel as if you are foreigner in your own back yard because you can't understand the language being spoken around you. Whatever happened to funnel cakes and corndogs? Itallian Sausages and Philly Cheese Steaks? Kettle Corn and Cotton Candy?... They've all been replaces with "fair foods" of a differently cultural heritage.. tacos, burritos, churros... dozens of other snacks, treats and fiesta foods that I can't spell or pronounce. I'm not saying that's bad, just disturbing in that it wasn't anything like I was expecting.. or remembered. <shrug> Anyway, after making a round of the fair, being hawked at by the game booth attendants, blasted by over amplified Fiesta Musica, jostled about by the crowds of fiesta goers..er.. fair goers... and at last finding one concession trailer that still offered CORN DOGS!!! along with their chimichongas and taquitos... my wife and I took our leave. *sigh*
That was Saturday. Sunday was spent working on the Honey-Do list.. but Today, a day off, I got to indulge in some detecting. Even as sweltering a day as it was I still enjoyed getting out for a while. The Fair was over, the crowds were all gone, the last of the carnival operators were driving off with their booths or rides in tow. The fairgrounds "proper" were locked up behind closed gates, but that I knew would be the case, no, I was there to detect the Parking Lot! The parking lot is the surrounding acres of grass hillsides surrounding the fairgrounds. The Bluegrass Lions Club, who host the county fair, always lay out rows of parking areas with posts and markers and strings of flags to keep people in nice neat orderly rows.. rows after rows after rows. After about 10 days of this constant traffic the grass where the cars park is still nice and green, and the grass that was driven on for days is rather dead dry and ground into dust and straw. The flags and posts are all gone, the cars are all gone, but the layout is easily discernable. So as the carnies were pulling out, I was pulling on my gear and setting out to swing some detector.
Well I thought the cars were all gone... Geez! I must have found half a car scattered over three or four rows of parking area.. wasn't entirely sure what kind of car it was till I finally found a nameplate.. It was an Malibu! or at least one of the cars was.
Oh yeah, there were bottle caps, pull tabs, all kinds of scrap metal to be found, and besides the pulltabs, most of it was DUG up. I didn't take any pictures of the garbage bag of cans and can slaw I picked up and dropped in the nearest trash can. I found a smiley face looking up at me at one point.. and my detector going nuts! A cheap metal yo-yo, thought it was a Wal-Mart sticker at first! Some snaps and buttons, a Key Ring Caribener, A WHOLE CAR!!!
Ok, so it's a "toy" car.. but it's still a VET! Even if it's seen better days.
And one very, VERY small "Big Screen TV" Got to be the SMALLEST "Big Screen TV" I've ever seen. Stop on a dime anyone?
Then there was the "bling" Some little princess lost her tiara.. it must have gotten stepped on or driven over because it was rather flattened under the tuft of grass that I moved aside when I found it. I found one lone Hoop earring, a couple of hair clasps, a beaded name bracelet, I'm guessing the girl's name was "Ashley" for some reason.<shrug> and a cross made from or at least to look like it was made from old fashioned cut nails. A little "Gothic" if you ask me, but it was still a cool find I though.
I found yet another "Sketchers Girl" heart pendant.. and a rather nicer "heart pendant" with a stone in it. While the "golden heart" is rather heavy for its size I don't think it's real gold, or even a real stone for that matter *sigh* that WOULD have been nice. <grin>
Here's a closer look at that Cross..
I found a pocket full of plastic "code caps" from soda bottles scattered around the grounds, I always pick them up and save them for my wife. She enjoys entering the codes in at the various websites.. even gets some cool stuff for them from time to time. I'll post a picture of her most recent "prize" in a response to this very post.
Besides the soda caps there were disposable lighters (only took the picture of this one <grin>) Batteries, toys.. Plastic frog anyone?
Oh I found coins too.. very few of which were on the surface. I had expected to find MOST of the coins on the surface or at least above the grass roots, but that was not the case. Most coins were under the grass in the soil, so they had been there for some time. Of the coins there were but one Wheat penny, a '55 D, one Canadian penny, a '63 (good year!).. and one very very odd coin.. French?
I thought it was a foreign coin.. till I turned it over.. it's actually a button. <rolling eyes>
Well there were quite a few other coins.. but they were all domestic and clad.. but spendable nonetheless. More than paid for my gas today, or would have, if it didn't all go towards the vacation fund. <grin> I did utilize one of the plastic soda caps though..a "buy one get one free" cap. Cool. Here's the day's finds and contribution to the vacation fund.. all $6.49 of it... not counting the wheaty or Canadian.
Not a bad afternoon at all... but with the skies darkening and the breeze definitely cooling off with and carrying the scent of rain, if not the rumble of thunder yet (thankfully) I headed to the house. I only covered about four rows of the parking area, out of maybe 24 or more. I'll have more opportunity to detect that park in the future, hopefully before the grass grows back though. And there's not a storm in the offing!
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
Oh.. I've got some more pictures to be posted in a "response" to this post... they wouldn't all fit, and my wife thought I should show off my "detector's tan" (think "Farmer's tan).. <grin>
With a wary eye on the horizon (from time to time) and half listening for the first rumbles of any distant thunder, I drove a few miles from my home to a local park that hosts my county's annual fair. My wife and I had actually attended the fair this year, on Saturday night. We were both terribly disappointed though, it just wasn't anything like the fairs of yesteryear. No, thanks to the burgeoning immigrant population here in central Kentucky, even the county fairs are taking on a distinctly "South Of The Border" personality if you will. I'm no racist or even a bigot by any stretch of the imagination.. but it's disturbing that you feel as if you are foreigner in your own back yard because you can't understand the language being spoken around you. Whatever happened to funnel cakes and corndogs? Itallian Sausages and Philly Cheese Steaks? Kettle Corn and Cotton Candy?... They've all been replaces with "fair foods" of a differently cultural heritage.. tacos, burritos, churros... dozens of other snacks, treats and fiesta foods that I can't spell or pronounce. I'm not saying that's bad, just disturbing in that it wasn't anything like I was expecting.. or remembered. <shrug> Anyway, after making a round of the fair, being hawked at by the game booth attendants, blasted by over amplified Fiesta Musica, jostled about by the crowds of fiesta goers..er.. fair goers... and at last finding one concession trailer that still offered CORN DOGS!!! along with their chimichongas and taquitos... my wife and I took our leave. *sigh*
That was Saturday. Sunday was spent working on the Honey-Do list.. but Today, a day off, I got to indulge in some detecting. Even as sweltering a day as it was I still enjoyed getting out for a while. The Fair was over, the crowds were all gone, the last of the carnival operators were driving off with their booths or rides in tow. The fairgrounds "proper" were locked up behind closed gates, but that I knew would be the case, no, I was there to detect the Parking Lot! The parking lot is the surrounding acres of grass hillsides surrounding the fairgrounds. The Bluegrass Lions Club, who host the county fair, always lay out rows of parking areas with posts and markers and strings of flags to keep people in nice neat orderly rows.. rows after rows after rows. After about 10 days of this constant traffic the grass where the cars park is still nice and green, and the grass that was driven on for days is rather dead dry and ground into dust and straw. The flags and posts are all gone, the cars are all gone, but the layout is easily discernable. So as the carnies were pulling out, I was pulling on my gear and setting out to swing some detector.
Well I thought the cars were all gone... Geez! I must have found half a car scattered over three or four rows of parking area.. wasn't entirely sure what kind of car it was till I finally found a nameplate.. It was an Malibu! or at least one of the cars was.
Oh yeah, there were bottle caps, pull tabs, all kinds of scrap metal to be found, and besides the pulltabs, most of it was DUG up. I didn't take any pictures of the garbage bag of cans and can slaw I picked up and dropped in the nearest trash can. I found a smiley face looking up at me at one point.. and my detector going nuts! A cheap metal yo-yo, thought it was a Wal-Mart sticker at first! Some snaps and buttons, a Key Ring Caribener, A WHOLE CAR!!!
Ok, so it's a "toy" car.. but it's still a VET! Even if it's seen better days.
And one very, VERY small "Big Screen TV" Got to be the SMALLEST "Big Screen TV" I've ever seen. Stop on a dime anyone?
Then there was the "bling" Some little princess lost her tiara.. it must have gotten stepped on or driven over because it was rather flattened under the tuft of grass that I moved aside when I found it. I found one lone Hoop earring, a couple of hair clasps, a beaded name bracelet, I'm guessing the girl's name was "Ashley" for some reason.<shrug> and a cross made from or at least to look like it was made from old fashioned cut nails. A little "Gothic" if you ask me, but it was still a cool find I though.
I found yet another "Sketchers Girl" heart pendant.. and a rather nicer "heart pendant" with a stone in it. While the "golden heart" is rather heavy for its size I don't think it's real gold, or even a real stone for that matter *sigh* that WOULD have been nice. <grin>
Here's a closer look at that Cross..
I found a pocket full of plastic "code caps" from soda bottles scattered around the grounds, I always pick them up and save them for my wife. She enjoys entering the codes in at the various websites.. even gets some cool stuff for them from time to time. I'll post a picture of her most recent "prize" in a response to this very post.
Besides the soda caps there were disposable lighters (only took the picture of this one <grin>) Batteries, toys.. Plastic frog anyone?
Oh I found coins too.. very few of which were on the surface. I had expected to find MOST of the coins on the surface or at least above the grass roots, but that was not the case. Most coins were under the grass in the soil, so they had been there for some time. Of the coins there were but one Wheat penny, a '55 D, one Canadian penny, a '63 (good year!).. and one very very odd coin.. French?
I thought it was a foreign coin.. till I turned it over.. it's actually a button. <rolling eyes>
Well there were quite a few other coins.. but they were all domestic and clad.. but spendable nonetheless. More than paid for my gas today, or would have, if it didn't all go towards the vacation fund. <grin> I did utilize one of the plastic soda caps though..a "buy one get one free" cap. Cool. Here's the day's finds and contribution to the vacation fund.. all $6.49 of it... not counting the wheaty or Canadian.
Not a bad afternoon at all... but with the skies darkening and the breeze definitely cooling off with and carrying the scent of rain, if not the rumble of thunder yet (thankfully) I headed to the house. I only covered about four rows of the parking area, out of maybe 24 or more. I'll have more opportunity to detect that park in the future, hopefully before the grass grows back though. And there's not a storm in the offing!
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
Oh.. I've got some more pictures to be posted in a "response" to this post... they wouldn't all fit, and my wife thought I should show off my "detector's tan" (think "Farmer's tan).. <grin>
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