excav
Jr. Member
Post your 'lf I knew then what I know now' stories.
l'll start:
When I was at the age when the most important things lived under rocks in the creek my friend and I spent a lot of time haunting a small creek near his house. This creek, as I said, small but with a few larger pools. We hunted the same areas a lot and I had noticed a different shaped object on the bottom of one of the pools on several occasions. I never paid much attention because the most important things lived under the rocks or jumped in the water when you spooked them.
One time one of the kids from the trailer park came with us. He took one look at the object in that pool and was gone. Soon he came back with his much older brother. I have been calling this a pool but it was more like an oversized puddle maybe 16 inches deep. He got the rusted muddy thing out of the puddle and left. I don't think he had much use for little kids.
After we were done creeking we went over to this other kids house and there was older brother scrubbing something in a bucket of kerosene. What it was, he told me, was a German Lugar. As I remember it couldn't have been in the water very long because it was cleaning up pretty good. He was trying to get the action working. If I knew then......
Another time, when I was much older - maybe late twentys I took my family to an island in Lake Erie for a short vacation. A friend had built a cottage on this island, we had done the excavating really cheap, and he let me use the cottage for free.
There were no real beaches there but there was a place at the water's edge where the water had washed the soil away and there was a gravelly area. It was a small area, maybe only 6'long and16" wide. I was looking around there one day and noticed some very small donut shaped thing mixed with the gravel. I picked one up and thought "I wonder what kind of animal would make a shell like that in this lake?". I was going to pick some up before we left but never did. I think there must have been at least a dozen of them from what I could see.
I've always looked on beaches as I now live very near some of them. I never find donut shaped things. Then not long ago, lurking on tnet I ran across a thread about pre-historic stone beads, small ones. If I knew then.........
l'll start:
When I was at the age when the most important things lived under rocks in the creek my friend and I spent a lot of time haunting a small creek near his house. This creek, as I said, small but with a few larger pools. We hunted the same areas a lot and I had noticed a different shaped object on the bottom of one of the pools on several occasions. I never paid much attention because the most important things lived under the rocks or jumped in the water when you spooked them.
One time one of the kids from the trailer park came with us. He took one look at the object in that pool and was gone. Soon he came back with his much older brother. I have been calling this a pool but it was more like an oversized puddle maybe 16 inches deep. He got the rusted muddy thing out of the puddle and left. I don't think he had much use for little kids.
After we were done creeking we went over to this other kids house and there was older brother scrubbing something in a bucket of kerosene. What it was, he told me, was a German Lugar. As I remember it couldn't have been in the water very long because it was cleaning up pretty good. He was trying to get the action working. If I knew then......
Another time, when I was much older - maybe late twentys I took my family to an island in Lake Erie for a short vacation. A friend had built a cottage on this island, we had done the excavating really cheap, and he let me use the cottage for free.
There were no real beaches there but there was a place at the water's edge where the water had washed the soil away and there was a gravelly area. It was a small area, maybe only 6'long and16" wide. I was looking around there one day and noticed some very small donut shaped thing mixed with the gravel. I picked one up and thought "I wonder what kind of animal would make a shell like that in this lake?". I was going to pick some up before we left but never did. I think there must have been at least a dozen of them from what I could see.
I've always looked on beaches as I now live very near some of them. I never find donut shaped things. Then not long ago, lurking on tnet I ran across a thread about pre-historic stone beads, small ones. If I knew then.........
