halfdime
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Fall baseball has started and the team I'm coaching has yellow jerseys; for that reason, we decided to call ourselves the Yellowjackets. Optimistically, we hope to sting a few of our opponents this season 
. At breakfast this morning, one of my uncles hooked me up with a detecting site out his way; never one to pass up a good piece of information, I headed out there after a great meal! School starts in two days, so I still had the kids with me; they enjoy detecting with me, or at least Miss halfdime does. Junior announced in advance that he'd be bored. His complaint was noted and added to the minutes of our very brief meeting about the morning agenda 
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At the site, my first good signal turned out to be this 1892 Indian head penny; I'm pretty sure both kids have one already but it's always a good sign of what else might be lurking. A couple signals later, after replacing a plug that yielded some sort of metal debris, I realized that I was being swarmed by yellow jackets. No, they weren't little ballplayers with yellow shirts, just little fiends with stingers! I managed to fend off the attack, but not before five of them got me! I thought that maybe I had set my kneeling pad or towel on their hole and was finally able to approach the area to look. I hadn't! Their hole in the ground was several feet from where I was but someone in the colony took offense at my being there. Pretty soon, the air cavalry was in action! Of course, I worried that the halfdime Einsteins with me would want too close a look at the nest; this kind of killed the passion I had for that spot. I'll probably return when the yellow jackets are done for the season!
. At breakfast this morning, one of my uncles hooked me up with a detecting site out his way; never one to pass up a good piece of information, I headed out there after a great meal! School starts in two days, so I still had the kids with me; they enjoy detecting with me, or at least Miss halfdime does. Junior announced in advance that he'd be bored. His complaint was noted and added to the minutes of our very brief meeting about the morning agenda . At the site, my first good signal turned out to be this 1892 Indian head penny; I'm pretty sure both kids have one already but it's always a good sign of what else might be lurking. A couple signals later, after replacing a plug that yielded some sort of metal debris, I realized that I was being swarmed by yellow jackets. No, they weren't little ballplayers with yellow shirts, just little fiends with stingers! I managed to fend off the attack, but not before five of them got me! I thought that maybe I had set my kneeling pad or towel on their hole and was finally able to approach the area to look. I hadn't! Their hole in the ground was several feet from where I was but someone in the colony took offense at my being there. Pretty soon, the air cavalry was in action! Of course, I worried that the halfdime Einsteins with me would want too close a look at the nest; this kind of killed the passion I had for that spot. I'll probably return when the yellow jackets are done for the season!
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I grabbed my stuff and run like the wind. Thank God they did not follow me and I did leave that hole open 
. I am anaphylactic when one stings me, let alone many, I do carry an Epi-Pen, but did not feel like going to emergency today. be very careful out there, especially if you are as allergic as I am..........NGE
