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The absolute best pork you can get is a 100 pound or so wild shoat that,s been feeding on acorns and pecans in the fall and early winter.Scrumpdillyumptous!
That's what they do in Italy, put the pigs in the oak forests for 6 months.
Acorns, oak leaves, high tannin diet.
Prosciutto ham cured for 12-16 months.
The ones that are cured for 3 yrs sell in NY for a $100 a pound.
I gathered up 250 lbs of acorns a few yrs back off the lawn.
Our friends 2 pigs ate it like popcorn.
 

Yes. What’s the odds that there’s another one of those , unbroken, buried under bricks, dirt and other debris? Dang it!
Well there's 2 things that seem not to mix well with glass-and that's rocks and bricks for some reason.
Winters was the friend of glass, and it covered it up before the rocks caught them. (or the children throwing the rocks)
 

Well... Some crew members that have dropped off i feel may have passed or something.
Most notably ... Simon and Rook.

I remember Rook saying something about Covid prior.
 

Well... Some crew members that have dropped off i feel may have passed or something.
Most notably ... Simon and Rook.

I remember Rook saying something about Covid prior.
I do think of them often and wonder if...
Some folks share the private contact stuff and some not.
Though some members just pop back up and start posting again.
Life grabbed them, and they dealt with it, and landed on the right side of the grass.
All we can do is hope that they'll return or we hear different.
 

well Good morning my lovelies xx I’m up to my ears in Board Reports 😔 hope you all have more a exciting day planned x
Morning blossom
I find I'm really bored doing any sort of reports.
Dream of detecting and digging things up.
Hope the day passes quickly for you.
 

Well I got the clutch unstuck, drove it in a high gear, cluthed pushed down, spiked the brakes, popped out.
Going blueberry picking today.
Yummy yummy yum 😋
1 for the basket
2 for me
Yippy
You'll have a great day.
May the hump day be kinds to you all.
May the thoughts of a treasure be with you all.
 

well Good morning my lovelies xx I’m up to my ears in Board Reports 😔 hope you all have more a exciting day planned x
Good morning, blossom. I was going to say that earlier , but I didn't know if you would be logged on at (I think ) 6:30 am. I see you post while at work. LOL I used to do that. Of course, I worked for my hubby and brother-in-law, so I could get away with that kind of behavior. Do you find it hard to concentrate? Does your mind wander to images of swinging the detector and getting that perfect signal? You are not alone. The addiction is real!
 

Well I got the clutch unstuck, drove it in a high gear, cluthed pushed down, spiked the brakes, popped out.
Going blueberry picking today.
Yummy yummy yum 😋
1 for the basket
2 for me
Yippy
You'll have a great day.
May the hump day be kinds to you all.
May the thoughts of a treasure be with you all.
Blueberries! I want to help!
 

Good morning, blossom. I was going to say that earlier , but I didn't know if you would be logged on at (I think ) 6:30 am. I see you post while at work. LOL I used to do that. Of course, I worked for my hubby and brother-in-law, so I could get away with that kind of behavior. Do you find it hard to concentrate? Does your mind wander to images of swinging the detector and getting that perfect signal? You are not alone. The addiction is real!
Oh my, you are so RIGHT, I work from home, and sometimes the system is slow so I utilise my time by checking on you all! 😂 and yes I dream of retiring and being able to tramp across the fields, desperately craving that ding 😂😂 Little did I know what would happen when I unwrapped my Garret! Id love to know how everyone got into it, maybe “we“ should start a thread “How it all began…”?? 🤔 (skip to next post telling me there is already one 😳) 😂😂 xx
 

Morning blossom
I find I'm really bored doing any sort of reports.
Dream of detecting and digging things up.
Hope the day passes quickly for you.
😂 i Think we must be twins 😂 thank you x look forward to getting some of that jam your making on board, it will take the edge off the scurvy 😂😂
 

Oh my, you are so RIGHT, I work from home, and sometimes the system is slow so I utilise my time by checking on you all! 😂 and yes I dream of retiring and being able to tramp across the fields, desperately craving that ding 😂😂 Little did I know what would happen when I unwrapped my Garret! Id love to know how everyone got into it, maybe “we“ should start a thread “How it all began…”?? 🤔 (skip to next post telling me there is already one 😳) 😂😂 xx
I am sure there is a thread. Probably more than one. LOL.

If everyone was to really look back over there lives, they would probably find lots of little finds and events molded them into what we lump together and label , "Treasure Hunter."

I'll tell you my story.

First digging experience:

I was staying with my cousins, 3 of them. I'd say we were around 9-11 years old. They lived on a dead end road. At the end there was a mulberry tree. We kept going down there and picked and ate them. One of my cousins wandered and trespassed through someones property to the woods behind, where he found the remnants of a home. He brought us all back there and we spent hours and days playing "archeologists on a dig." I remember there were 2 fireplaces remaining. I remember wondering why there were 2? I remember finding lots of broken dishes. Oh, to this day, my heart aches to have another chance at that place! But, a church bought the property and it is under a parking lot now.

Other events:
Then, of course, there were the field trips at school, where we went fossil hunting, or learning about early american life. (OH my! I can only imagine what your history classes in school were like!) All the family trips with my parents, and then my own family, and visiting historical sites. Our first home was 100+/- years old with a crawl space. Some remodeling caused us to access the crawl space and there were old bottles, a smashed, rusted out tub, etc.

Where I live now:
Then, about 30 years later, we bought this 40 acre farm. It had an old barn on it that we had tore down, and hubby dug a huge hole and pushed the remnants into and burned it. Are you all cringing yet? LOL. Some where in here, my dad gave me his Bounty Hunter metal detecter. I couldn't figure it out, so it went in the new barn loft. We started finding a bottle here and there along the creek. Then we stumbled upon the foundation & cellar hole. Then one spring I found this pretty little cobalt blue bottle in the creek. It had "Bromo Seltzer" embossed on it. I googled it and found this site. I fell in love! So much knowledge on here. It was unbelievable. Of course I revisited my dad's metal detector and we couldn't get it to work. Left the batteries in it, don't ya know. So we were walking around this sporting goods store. It was nearing Christmas. They had a display of Technetics Delta 4000 metal detectors on sale. I showed interest and hubby said to get it because he always struggles with what to get me for Christmas. Next spring, I got it out with my grandson and we walked all over this 40 acres with it! Every time I swung it, we would get beeps, he would dig, and find nothing. He would swing it and there would be no beeps. Oh we got lucky a couple of times and found a rusty nail or piece of fence here and there. We both got discouraged and I put it on a shelf. But, I still hung around on this site. The subject came up, and someone told me to get it back down and try again. Don't give up. Well, I did, and figured out that I was making a classical mistake, memories flooded of the first time out, and I just had to laugh. I had steel toed boots on!
 

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