Frodov
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Ahhh.. time to relax..time to warm up in the sun.. timeto enjoy a little metal detecting! Hi everyone! How have you all been? I myself have been just biding my time waiting for a weekend like this one for weeks if not months it seems. A weekend off from work, with fantastic weather (even if a bit chilly in the mornings), no rain, no pressing yard work or errands to run and a discovery of a couple of baseball fields in a park near my home that I didn't know even existed! Virgin territory.. in more ways than one.. but you'll find out about that in due time.
Saturday morning I awoke bright and early.. for a day off.. I actually slept in a couple of hours past when I would normally arise to get ready for a work day. I grabbed a few cookies and a soda from the fridge as my breakfast/lunch and headed off to one of the larger parks in my fair city here in Lexington Kentucky. I've hunted this park for a couple of years now.. as long as I've been detecting. As a popular park, it sees lots of traffic.. people traffic.. picnickers, large gatherings for reunions, festivals, free movies, "haunted halloween trails".. and just lounging around in the sun kind of stuff. Oh.. and there's one of the largest Tot Lots in the city here. <smile> It's one of the last remaining "Imagineering" playgrounds in Lexington, you know, the big wooden structures with mazes, slides, climbing stuff, etc etc... all nestled in a soft forgiving and thirsty WoodChips. <grin> I LIKE WOODCHIPS! I've not been to this tot lot in a couple of months, not a lot of traffic there over the winter months don't you know. But, with the nicer weather and warmer temperatures the kiddies are coming back, and the chips are giving up all the goodies to anyone willing to go detect in them. So I did. Bright and Early, as I said earlier.. Early so as to avoid having to play the Pied Piper to a gaggle of giggling google eyed little gremlins following me around "helping" me dig or just repeatedly asking "Hey Mister.. whatchoodooin?" "Have you found any treasure?" "I lost my power ranger, can you find it for me?" <laughing> YES.. sometimes the better part of sanity is to go early in the day when it's still too cool out to be playing on the damp plastic and wood and metal of the playground... mostly because their parents are sleeping in on the weekend probably!
Oh the woodchips can be fickle, don't get me wrong. As anyone of you out there who've hunted the tot lots and woodchips can testify to as well. Sometimes you find stuff.. sometimes you just find junk.. sometimes you find nothing at all. My last hunt at this particular Tot Lot yielded up a class ring from the class of 1988. I'm still trying to make contact with the owner of this ring, or at least the person whose name is engraved on the inside of the band anyway... but that will be another story if I ever get in contact. This weekend was a different story.. THIS story. <grin> As the woodchips can be fickle, they, too, can be rewarding as well. Saturday morning they were rewarding.. and rewarding WELL. Coins Coins Coins Coins and more Coins! Pennies to be sure, lots and lots of pennies. It would seem that the little kiddies just love to run around sprinkling pennies on the playgrounds and tot lots of the world. Oh not that I mind! I will dig or pick up as many pennies as I can find. I'm not too proud! <chuckle> I found other coins too though, a surprisingly large number of nickels this weekend. I found a total of 17 nickels this weekend, in two hunts, most in the woodchips at this tot lot . Of course dimes are popular too, I guess because they are smallish as coins go, and they nearly disappear in the grass, sand and woodchips at the parks. Nothing bigger than a quarter this weekend, but a nice number of those to be sure! I'll get to the grand totals later, but suffice it to say that my gas was well covered as were a few sodas and batteries even. <grin>
Coins are not the only things found in the woodchips of course. I often wonder why so many pull tabs are found in the tot lots and woodchips.. not so much the cans they came from, but oh the pull tabs! ..And plastic. Doll parts, toys, hair clasps, and balls. Uh.. golf balls that is. <rolling eyes> I found this tiny little helmet Saturday.. I'm thinking, what is this for? A Grasshopper? A mouse?
I found a couple of toy cars between these two parks...
.. and the odd stuff began to appear. Anyone who's detected for a while will have a whole collection of "Whatzits" and "thingamajigs" that have eluded their identification.. sometimes no one on line is able to help identify them either. Some odd things are just odd simply because of where they are found.. they make you sit back on your heels and say.. "What the heck?.. How did this get HERE?" I've lost count of the number of bullets and shell casings I've found in playgrounds for instance. This weekend was no exception. I found a rifle shell casing in one park, and a bullet or the remains of a lead bullet anyway, at the other park. Then there is the wire, the nails, the screws..
... the odd bits and pieces of metal.. and the rocks. ROCKS? Yes.. ROCKS. I've read other people posting about finding "hot rocks" or metallic rocks before, and I've even found a few myself and they still amaze me. I found one today actually that is puzzling in that it is so light, but makes my detector go nuts.
Parks and tot lots always have the usual metallic clutter of buttons, snaps, zipper pulls and pins.. Junk jewelry, and occasionally even real jewelry as in the class ring I found last fall. This weekend I only found junk, but it's still neat to find as your heart beats a little faster as you brush off the dirt and look for that stamp or hallmark. <smile> At the ball fields I found a big brass tag that rang up as a fifty cent piece on my detector.. too bad it was but a bit of brass with Green on it. I found another soccer pin this weekend too though, that was neat, especially since the tournament it was for was not held here in Kentucky.
Here's a closer look at that rifle shell casing..
... Junk earring..
I found a couple of oldies this weekend, this morning actually at that "new" ball park I mentioned. Ok, so they weren't really that old by the standards of most of the folks on here but they were older than anything else I found this weekend. One lone wheat penny, and an older nickel 1940 and 1948 respectfully..
.. I forgot to mention the one lone Canadian penny I found too.. I've got a pile of them growing in my treasure chest, a few quarters and a dime or two as well, but just the one penny to be added today.
Today's hunt, at that "new" baseball park I mentioned.. new to me anyway.. started off much as the Tot lot hunt yesterday started. Bright and early in the morning. Sunday morning, when most people are home still in bed or just getting up and thinking about starting their day. I made breakfast for my wife and I and we ate just after daybreak... she went back to bed, I went metal detecting. Not a waste of time in my book. I found lots more quarters, dimes and pennies.. a few nickels as well. LOTS more pull tabs, wires, nails and can slaw too. But the most unique find for today was one that had me getting religious.. about the time. When I first got the target on my detector it rang up loud and clear, and HUGE.. like a fifty cent piece! I'd been finding quarters this morning and they all rang up in the quarter range or the fifty cent range as well, so I figured it was another quarter or two close together or near the surface. However.. as I began probing around I found a metallic band.. wrist band.. a wrist WATCH band. Cool! HOLY! Sweet Mother Mary! What time IS it? Sunday morning on top of everything else and I found Jesus looking back at me at 6 O'clock ! Jesus AND The Virgin Mother Mary! CHRIST! <ducking the thunderbolts> Ok ok ok..I'm sorry if I've offended anyone with that little bit of babbling.. but when you see the pictures of this watch you might understand a little better.. <grinning with a twinkle in the eye>
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Well it actually was NOT 6 o'clock.. at least when I found it anyway. It was closer to noon, to be honest, and I was pretty well done for the day, even for a die hard metal detector like myself.. and I was getting hungry.. and I was expecting a call from my dear wife wondering what we were going to do for lunch. Dining at home? or going out? I brushed off the Holy wrist watch and headed for my truck.. detecting along the way of course.. I *am* a diehard after all. I found a few more coins along the way too. <smile>
After getting home.. well.. getting home AGAIN, after taking my darling out for lunch and a bit of shopping.. I must pay my dues you know. <smile> Anyway, after getting home again, I emptied out my finds bag and sorted all the goodies and cleaned and counted the coins and tallied up the finds for the two hunts this weekend. OH SWEET! Like I said earlier.. paid for my gas, sodas, batteries and would have still had change left over! You gotta love a hobby that PAYS for itself!.. Here's my haul for two days hunting.. a total of about four and a half hours of detecting..
.... Seventeen dollars Plus! SWEEET! But not as sweet at the actually getting out and enjoying the detecting and the weather and the peace and quiet.. and the TIME. I hope you all get out to enjoy some detecting or just the weather as well.. and as always!
Happy Hunting Everyone~
Frodov
Saturday morning I awoke bright and early.. for a day off.. I actually slept in a couple of hours past when I would normally arise to get ready for a work day. I grabbed a few cookies and a soda from the fridge as my breakfast/lunch and headed off to one of the larger parks in my fair city here in Lexington Kentucky. I've hunted this park for a couple of years now.. as long as I've been detecting. As a popular park, it sees lots of traffic.. people traffic.. picnickers, large gatherings for reunions, festivals, free movies, "haunted halloween trails".. and just lounging around in the sun kind of stuff. Oh.. and there's one of the largest Tot Lots in the city here. <smile> It's one of the last remaining "Imagineering" playgrounds in Lexington, you know, the big wooden structures with mazes, slides, climbing stuff, etc etc... all nestled in a soft forgiving and thirsty WoodChips. <grin> I LIKE WOODCHIPS! I've not been to this tot lot in a couple of months, not a lot of traffic there over the winter months don't you know. But, with the nicer weather and warmer temperatures the kiddies are coming back, and the chips are giving up all the goodies to anyone willing to go detect in them. So I did. Bright and Early, as I said earlier.. Early so as to avoid having to play the Pied Piper to a gaggle of giggling google eyed little gremlins following me around "helping" me dig or just repeatedly asking "Hey Mister.. whatchoodooin?" "Have you found any treasure?" "I lost my power ranger, can you find it for me?" <laughing> YES.. sometimes the better part of sanity is to go early in the day when it's still too cool out to be playing on the damp plastic and wood and metal of the playground... mostly because their parents are sleeping in on the weekend probably!
Oh the woodchips can be fickle, don't get me wrong. As anyone of you out there who've hunted the tot lots and woodchips can testify to as well. Sometimes you find stuff.. sometimes you just find junk.. sometimes you find nothing at all. My last hunt at this particular Tot Lot yielded up a class ring from the class of 1988. I'm still trying to make contact with the owner of this ring, or at least the person whose name is engraved on the inside of the band anyway... but that will be another story if I ever get in contact. This weekend was a different story.. THIS story. <grin> As the woodchips can be fickle, they, too, can be rewarding as well. Saturday morning they were rewarding.. and rewarding WELL. Coins Coins Coins Coins and more Coins! Pennies to be sure, lots and lots of pennies. It would seem that the little kiddies just love to run around sprinkling pennies on the playgrounds and tot lots of the world. Oh not that I mind! I will dig or pick up as many pennies as I can find. I'm not too proud! <chuckle> I found other coins too though, a surprisingly large number of nickels this weekend. I found a total of 17 nickels this weekend, in two hunts, most in the woodchips at this tot lot . Of course dimes are popular too, I guess because they are smallish as coins go, and they nearly disappear in the grass, sand and woodchips at the parks. Nothing bigger than a quarter this weekend, but a nice number of those to be sure! I'll get to the grand totals later, but suffice it to say that my gas was well covered as were a few sodas and batteries even. <grin>
Coins are not the only things found in the woodchips of course. I often wonder why so many pull tabs are found in the tot lots and woodchips.. not so much the cans they came from, but oh the pull tabs! ..And plastic. Doll parts, toys, hair clasps, and balls. Uh.. golf balls that is. <rolling eyes> I found this tiny little helmet Saturday.. I'm thinking, what is this for? A Grasshopper? A mouse?
I found a couple of toy cars between these two parks...
.. and the odd stuff began to appear. Anyone who's detected for a while will have a whole collection of "Whatzits" and "thingamajigs" that have eluded their identification.. sometimes no one on line is able to help identify them either. Some odd things are just odd simply because of where they are found.. they make you sit back on your heels and say.. "What the heck?.. How did this get HERE?" I've lost count of the number of bullets and shell casings I've found in playgrounds for instance. This weekend was no exception. I found a rifle shell casing in one park, and a bullet or the remains of a lead bullet anyway, at the other park. Then there is the wire, the nails, the screws..
... the odd bits and pieces of metal.. and the rocks. ROCKS? Yes.. ROCKS. I've read other people posting about finding "hot rocks" or metallic rocks before, and I've even found a few myself and they still amaze me. I found one today actually that is puzzling in that it is so light, but makes my detector go nuts.
Parks and tot lots always have the usual metallic clutter of buttons, snaps, zipper pulls and pins.. Junk jewelry, and occasionally even real jewelry as in the class ring I found last fall. This weekend I only found junk, but it's still neat to find as your heart beats a little faster as you brush off the dirt and look for that stamp or hallmark. <smile> At the ball fields I found a big brass tag that rang up as a fifty cent piece on my detector.. too bad it was but a bit of brass with Green on it. I found another soccer pin this weekend too though, that was neat, especially since the tournament it was for was not held here in Kentucky.
Here's a closer look at that rifle shell casing..
... Junk earring..
I found a couple of oldies this weekend, this morning actually at that "new" ball park I mentioned. Ok, so they weren't really that old by the standards of most of the folks on here but they were older than anything else I found this weekend. One lone wheat penny, and an older nickel 1940 and 1948 respectfully..
.. I forgot to mention the one lone Canadian penny I found too.. I've got a pile of them growing in my treasure chest, a few quarters and a dime or two as well, but just the one penny to be added today.
Today's hunt, at that "new" baseball park I mentioned.. new to me anyway.. started off much as the Tot lot hunt yesterday started. Bright and early in the morning. Sunday morning, when most people are home still in bed or just getting up and thinking about starting their day. I made breakfast for my wife and I and we ate just after daybreak... she went back to bed, I went metal detecting. Not a waste of time in my book. I found lots more quarters, dimes and pennies.. a few nickels as well. LOTS more pull tabs, wires, nails and can slaw too. But the most unique find for today was one that had me getting religious.. about the time. When I first got the target on my detector it rang up loud and clear, and HUGE.. like a fifty cent piece! I'd been finding quarters this morning and they all rang up in the quarter range or the fifty cent range as well, so I figured it was another quarter or two close together or near the surface. However.. as I began probing around I found a metallic band.. wrist band.. a wrist WATCH band. Cool! HOLY! Sweet Mother Mary! What time IS it? Sunday morning on top of everything else and I found Jesus looking back at me at 6 O'clock ! Jesus AND The Virgin Mother Mary! CHRIST! <ducking the thunderbolts> Ok ok ok..I'm sorry if I've offended anyone with that little bit of babbling.. but when you see the pictures of this watch you might understand a little better.. <grinning with a twinkle in the eye>
;Well it actually was NOT 6 o'clock.. at least when I found it anyway. It was closer to noon, to be honest, and I was pretty well done for the day, even for a die hard metal detector like myself.. and I was getting hungry.. and I was expecting a call from my dear wife wondering what we were going to do for lunch. Dining at home? or going out? I brushed off the Holy wrist watch and headed for my truck.. detecting along the way of course.. I *am* a diehard after all. I found a few more coins along the way too. <smile>
After getting home.. well.. getting home AGAIN, after taking my darling out for lunch and a bit of shopping.. I must pay my dues you know. <smile> Anyway, after getting home again, I emptied out my finds bag and sorted all the goodies and cleaned and counted the coins and tallied up the finds for the two hunts this weekend. OH SWEET! Like I said earlier.. paid for my gas, sodas, batteries and would have still had change left over! You gotta love a hobby that PAYS for itself!.. Here's my haul for two days hunting.. a total of about four and a half hours of detecting..
.... Seventeen dollars Plus! SWEEET! But not as sweet at the actually getting out and enjoying the detecting and the weather and the peace and quiet.. and the TIME. I hope you all get out to enjoy some detecting or just the weather as well.. and as always!
Happy Hunting Everyone~
Frodov
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