Frodov
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Rat Bit ! Danger High Pressure!
What an absolutely GORGEOUS day it was today. A day off from work, and I got to sleep late this morning. I didn’t get up to nigh on 7:15 this morning! Woo Hoo! Of course I made breakfast for my wife and I, she sleeping in till it was on the table and ready to eat. I was feeling pretty good this morning. Yesterday, at work, I felt lousy. I even got sick not once but twice. I struggle through, dragging my butt all twelve hours till the end of the shift, FINALLY! Then it was home to my baby, a good long shower and then to bed. Sleeping late and feeling better this morning.
Unfortunately the good feelings didn’t last long. After breakfast, reading the paper and catching up on email and such I realized that the headache from yesterday was returning again today. I eventually got cleaned up and dressed for the day when my wife wanted to go out for lunch. While driving to our dining experience the pounding in my head nearly had my eyes rolling around in my skull. I hardly remember lunch and my wife insisted I check my blood pressure upon returning home, as my face was “beet red” . I checked and it was HIGH! 228 over 105 !!! YIKES! I had been scheduled for a doctor’s appointment this very day, but the office had me reschedule for next week as my doctor was going to be out of town. I had a prescription expire last week and the doctor would have rewritten it today to be filled, but alas, he’s not even in town. Fortunately his office was able to call in the script to a local pharmacy to be filled this afternoon. I picked it up on my way out to detect. Of course I took a dose right away. Fortunately my blood pressure began returning to normal. Whew!
Well my “excitement” wasn’t over yet, I just didn’t know it. My first stop to detect was a local school playground. The kids are all out on “Fall Break”... uh... What the heck is that? We never had “Fall Break” when we were growing up! Anyway, the playground was deserted, just the way I like it. I recovered a bunch of coins, a handful of buttons and snaps...
I also found a few little pieces of “Bling” in the woodchips as well... An earring that I thought was silver... it’s not... I found what I think is a zipper pull “tab”... and a teeny tiny little “Hello Kitty” uh... bead..?
Then I was attacked by Indians... well ONE indian... a South American Indian... A rather ticked off looking fellow by the name of Urraca.
Yeah I did a bit of world travelling... just down the street from my house. One Panamanian Centesimo De Balboa. Cool ! On to the next stop, a Baseball/Softball park. Nobody was practicing or playing any games this afternoon/evening so I had the park basically to myself. Although it started off kind of slow, the coins kept coming. I love the “Plink” sound that a newly unearthed coin makes as you drop it into your finds bag along with your other recoveries. Plink, plink, plink... Then I got held up.
Yeah.. some guy with a gun, talking on his cell phone... oh wait that is a radio. <grin> I found, by eyeball, one lone toy soldier. Not far away was the mechanical pencil. There were plenty of pull tabs being added to the finds bag too,
along with junk and scrap metal... *sigh*... I know... “DIG EVERYTHING”.
Coins, coins and more coins... dig, plink, dig, plink, dig, plink... Then I got RAT BIT! Oh don’t worry, it wasn’t by the furry four legged vermin type Rat, but rather the Big Surprisingly well traveled Chuck E Cheese type of rat.
Man... I find these things EVERYWHERE! Not that I mind though, got quite a growing collection of them that’s for sure. Well, by now the sun has not only kissed the horizon, but has settled well below it so that the western sky was glowing like a dying ember. I hadn’t realized that it was getting dark because the lights had come on at the park and it was nearly as bright as when I’d arrived earlier. I was still finding coins even as I walked (detected) back to my truck. Plink, plink, plink. This finds bag was getting heavy. Cool!
Yeah... that’ll be another nice contribution to the old Vacation fund! GOT TO LOVE THIS HOBBY!
When I got home, my headache was returning and yeah, my blood pressure was a little high again. *sigh* Not due for another dose of bp meds till morning so it’s just slowing down and relaxing, going to bed early to get it lower. Well, that is after I took my pics and wrote this post to share with you. With that done, here’s wishing you all a happy and healthy weekend. Get out and enjoy the weather! As always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
What an absolutely GORGEOUS day it was today. A day off from work, and I got to sleep late this morning. I didn’t get up to nigh on 7:15 this morning! Woo Hoo! Of course I made breakfast for my wife and I, she sleeping in till it was on the table and ready to eat. I was feeling pretty good this morning. Yesterday, at work, I felt lousy. I even got sick not once but twice. I struggle through, dragging my butt all twelve hours till the end of the shift, FINALLY! Then it was home to my baby, a good long shower and then to bed. Sleeping late and feeling better this morning.
Unfortunately the good feelings didn’t last long. After breakfast, reading the paper and catching up on email and such I realized that the headache from yesterday was returning again today. I eventually got cleaned up and dressed for the day when my wife wanted to go out for lunch. While driving to our dining experience the pounding in my head nearly had my eyes rolling around in my skull. I hardly remember lunch and my wife insisted I check my blood pressure upon returning home, as my face was “beet red” . I checked and it was HIGH! 228 over 105 !!! YIKES! I had been scheduled for a doctor’s appointment this very day, but the office had me reschedule for next week as my doctor was going to be out of town. I had a prescription expire last week and the doctor would have rewritten it today to be filled, but alas, he’s not even in town. Fortunately his office was able to call in the script to a local pharmacy to be filled this afternoon. I picked it up on my way out to detect. Of course I took a dose right away. Fortunately my blood pressure began returning to normal. Whew!
Well my “excitement” wasn’t over yet, I just didn’t know it. My first stop to detect was a local school playground. The kids are all out on “Fall Break”... uh... What the heck is that? We never had “Fall Break” when we were growing up! Anyway, the playground was deserted, just the way I like it. I recovered a bunch of coins, a handful of buttons and snaps...
I also found a few little pieces of “Bling” in the woodchips as well... An earring that I thought was silver... it’s not... I found what I think is a zipper pull “tab”... and a teeny tiny little “Hello Kitty” uh... bead..?
Then I was attacked by Indians... well ONE indian... a South American Indian... A rather ticked off looking fellow by the name of Urraca.
Yeah I did a bit of world travelling... just down the street from my house. One Panamanian Centesimo De Balboa. Cool ! On to the next stop, a Baseball/Softball park. Nobody was practicing or playing any games this afternoon/evening so I had the park basically to myself. Although it started off kind of slow, the coins kept coming. I love the “Plink” sound that a newly unearthed coin makes as you drop it into your finds bag along with your other recoveries. Plink, plink, plink... Then I got held up.
Yeah.. some guy with a gun, talking on his cell phone... oh wait that is a radio. <grin> I found, by eyeball, one lone toy soldier. Not far away was the mechanical pencil. There were plenty of pull tabs being added to the finds bag too,
along with junk and scrap metal... *sigh*... I know... “DIG EVERYTHING”.
Coins, coins and more coins... dig, plink, dig, plink, dig, plink... Then I got RAT BIT! Oh don’t worry, it wasn’t by the furry four legged vermin type Rat, but rather the Big Surprisingly well traveled Chuck E Cheese type of rat.
Man... I find these things EVERYWHERE! Not that I mind though, got quite a growing collection of them that’s for sure. Well, by now the sun has not only kissed the horizon, but has settled well below it so that the western sky was glowing like a dying ember. I hadn’t realized that it was getting dark because the lights had come on at the park and it was nearly as bright as when I’d arrived earlier. I was still finding coins even as I walked (detected) back to my truck. Plink, plink, plink. This finds bag was getting heavy. Cool!
Yeah... that’ll be another nice contribution to the old Vacation fund! GOT TO LOVE THIS HOBBY!
When I got home, my headache was returning and yeah, my blood pressure was a little high again. *sigh* Not due for another dose of bp meds till morning so it’s just slowing down and relaxing, going to bed early to get it lower. Well, that is after I took my pics and wrote this post to share with you. With that done, here’s wishing you all a happy and healthy weekend. Get out and enjoy the weather! As always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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