Lowbatts
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So I sez, “ Hey Mark, got a Barber half over here.”
And he sez, “You got a buff?”
“No, a Barber half”
“What?!?”
“Barber half.”
“No way.”
Hmmm…. I waited for his next reply,
“Awesome!”
“Yeah, stay RIGHT HERE and swing away!” sez I as he immediately heads off in every direction swinging like a cave man gone wild. Well I rechecked the hole and got nada but two feet away got another signal, silver quarter I was pretty sure. Asked him to check the signal, “No way, not again!” Sez he.
Yep, and there might be more. This time he stayed put, swinging in nice tight circles around me and we took turns digging carefully to extract the SLQ from under the root adjoining the 4” diameter tree.
I checked the tree and sure enough got another nice signal directly under the tree about 5” down. Meanwhile he was recovering a wheatie between hole 1 and hole 2. Yeah boy we was on the spot. I tried to get at the nice target directly under the tree but my own enfeebled state from the first two recoveries made it difficult to imagine what more lie beneath that tangled matrix, let alone how to manage the deliberation to recover it neatly. In a hazed fit of silver jubilation I told him if he wanted to recover it the target was his.
Ever thrown red meat to a feral dog? Man can they domesticate quickly… He went at the hole. Meanwhile I hit the spot where he got the wheatie and pulled a buff. Moments later he recovered the Barber quarter, directly under the tree. How it stayed there without growing into the tree I can’t imagine. Then again it’s not mine to imagine, it’s in the dirt, that’s all there is to it.
One dollar and six cents spread about 2 feet apart. Nice!
Later I got another buff for a total of four coins dug today by yours truly. Not a lot, but a nice ratio of oldies to clad. (4:0) Also got my first Cracker Jack toy that wasn’t broken in so long I can’t remember the last one, what, where or when. Cute little tomahawk. Liked the striations in the glass on the clear half pint whiskey and the amber and design on the other, a later prohibition era bottle.
And he sez, “You got a buff?”
“No, a Barber half”
“What?!?”
“Barber half.”
“No way.”
Hmmm…. I waited for his next reply,
“Awesome!”
“Yeah, stay RIGHT HERE and swing away!” sez I as he immediately heads off in every direction swinging like a cave man gone wild. Well I rechecked the hole and got nada but two feet away got another signal, silver quarter I was pretty sure. Asked him to check the signal, “No way, not again!” Sez he.
Yep, and there might be more. This time he stayed put, swinging in nice tight circles around me and we took turns digging carefully to extract the SLQ from under the root adjoining the 4” diameter tree.
I checked the tree and sure enough got another nice signal directly under the tree about 5” down. Meanwhile he was recovering a wheatie between hole 1 and hole 2. Yeah boy we was on the spot. I tried to get at the nice target directly under the tree but my own enfeebled state from the first two recoveries made it difficult to imagine what more lie beneath that tangled matrix, let alone how to manage the deliberation to recover it neatly. In a hazed fit of silver jubilation I told him if he wanted to recover it the target was his.
Ever thrown red meat to a feral dog? Man can they domesticate quickly… He went at the hole. Meanwhile I hit the spot where he got the wheatie and pulled a buff. Moments later he recovered the Barber quarter, directly under the tree. How it stayed there without growing into the tree I can’t imagine. Then again it’s not mine to imagine, it’s in the dirt, that’s all there is to it.
One dollar and six cents spread about 2 feet apart. Nice!
Later I got another buff for a total of four coins dug today by yours truly. Not a lot, but a nice ratio of oldies to clad. (4:0) Also got my first Cracker Jack toy that wasn’t broken in so long I can’t remember the last one, what, where or when. Cute little tomahawk. Liked the striations in the glass on the clear half pint whiskey and the amber and design on the other, a later prohibition era bottle.
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