Frodov
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You Know It’s Been Hot When...
Hello again everyone. I hope you are all comfortable and content as you sit and read this ramble. I’ll be lucky to sit long enough to actually put pen to paper... er... uh... Text to Screen I mean. <rolling eyes> Sometimes old cliché’s just don’t apply do they? Anyway, I’m rushing a bit to put my thoughts and recollections of this my latest adventure in Metal Detecting into this format before my bum leg starts cramping up on me again. Oooh I can feel the charley horse coming!
Today was a good day even if I do resort to using some well worn cliché’s. First of all, it was a day off! That’s always a “good day” in my book. Secondly, I had no pressing issues or errands or prior commitments to attend to today. I slept in, for me anything past 5:30 A.M. is sleeping in. I made waffles for breakfast for my wife and I, which is a rare treat even if I do say so myself. After perusing the daily news paper, I even fell asleep on the couch and napped a while. Yeah... “napped”. I wasted a BIG part of the day and most of the late morning. *sigh* But, I was refreshed after the nap, and my knee wasn’t hurting so I took advantage of the pain free mobility and headed out to detect a couple of parks this afternoon.
I was early enough, in the afternoon yet, to be able to have the parks to myself for the most part. The local kids were still in school at that time. Besides, they would probably gravitate towards the indoors today anyway, as it was still a bit warm out, and dry. VERY DRY. Walking across the grass from the parking lot to the tot lot at the first park sounded like I was walking on cornflakes or something. “You know it’s been hot when..” When the grass crumbles under your shoes as you walk on it. And..
You know it’s been hot when:
You find nearly if not more change UNDER the shade trees around the tot lots than you do amongst the wood chips.
You find that the woodchips are the consistency of sawdust when you try to dig a target out of them.
You see the vinyl or plastic coating on the swing set chains is dripping off the end of the chains.
Normally pestering flies and moths spontaneously burst into flame if they land on the woodchips next to you while you are digging a target.
Squirrels are mobbing the bird baths and mostly dry creek beds in the parks.
<laughing> Sorry... just had to get some of that out. Yeah, it’s been hot and dry around these parts, as I’m sure it has where a lot of you are at as well. We’ve all heard the horror stories of trying to dig in soil that’s so hard and dry that It’s like digging through concrete... and for what? A Zincoln Penny? <laughing> Well I did just that today. Not all of them were pennies though, and not all of them were in the concrete hard dirt. Some were on top of the dirt, just under the tinder dry chaff that used to be grass until recently. Some coins were recovered from the thoroughly baked woodchips too. But dig I did do, and find I did too. Perhaps it wasn’t my best day of metal detecting, but I’m happy with what I recovered in the time that I spent. I did, however, spend as much or more time under and around the shade trees today as I did in the tot lots though, both because it was hot and dry, and because that’s apparently where other people have been hanging out as well. My first find today, literally ONE STEP from the curb of the parking lot was another one of those bleepin’ GOLF EGGS. Must be one UGLY bird to drop such hard boiled eggs .
It being so hot and all recently, it’s understandable that people would be drinking water, and soda... and lord knows how much beer at the parks. I found and picked up handfuls of pull tabs, bottle caps and these plastic bottle caps that my wife enjoys putting into the computer (the codes anyway).
I found all manner of other “stuff” around and under the trees and the woodchips as well today. Lots of buttons and snaps of course, one little “back” to an earring or a pin of some sort. One of those little pendant “rings” that says “MOMMY” encrusted with little stones of some sort, and some sort of shoe bling with a religious bent I think. A piece of chain from what? A bug zapper? A lighting fixture perhaps?
I found someone’s lost key, I wonder how many that makes now for the little over 4 years I’ve been detecting. I’m going to have to count them up and keep a running total maybe. <laughing> “Number 378..” <shrug>
Today’s hunt was good for the old Used Car lot too... I found a total of four vehicles between the two parks I hunted this afternoon. Three were buried down in the soil, one (the road kill recovery vehicle) was uncovered in the woodchips.
I found a few DOLLAR coins today too. That’s always a rush. One little Indian Maiden (Sacagawea ) Coin near the roots of an old oak tree, about two inches down.... at Park number one. And, I found two Presidential Dollar coins in the woodchips at Park number two.
ChaChing! I like those big coins... well... they’re bigger than quarters and pennies. <smile> I like finding those just as well though. I found over a hundred pennies today between the woodchips and the shade trees and two parks. Wish I could say the same for the quarters or even dimes, but I’ll keep what I found, till vacation anyway.
Not a bad collection for just over two hours hunting time. I would likely have found more, or recovered more if my knee hadn’t started to STOP cooperating. Each time I stooped down to make a recovery my knee would begin throbbing and there was just a ghost of pain as I stood back up. I know better than to push it too much while I’m still mending so I called it a day earlier than I would have liked. Better safe than sorry I guess. Still though, I had a great time and a “GOOD DAY” all the same. I hope you all have as much luck or at least as much enjoyment as well. As always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Hello again everyone. I hope you are all comfortable and content as you sit and read this ramble. I’ll be lucky to sit long enough to actually put pen to paper... er... uh... Text to Screen I mean. <rolling eyes> Sometimes old cliché’s just don’t apply do they? Anyway, I’m rushing a bit to put my thoughts and recollections of this my latest adventure in Metal Detecting into this format before my bum leg starts cramping up on me again. Oooh I can feel the charley horse coming!
Today was a good day even if I do resort to using some well worn cliché’s. First of all, it was a day off! That’s always a “good day” in my book. Secondly, I had no pressing issues or errands or prior commitments to attend to today. I slept in, for me anything past 5:30 A.M. is sleeping in. I made waffles for breakfast for my wife and I, which is a rare treat even if I do say so myself. After perusing the daily news paper, I even fell asleep on the couch and napped a while. Yeah... “napped”. I wasted a BIG part of the day and most of the late morning. *sigh* But, I was refreshed after the nap, and my knee wasn’t hurting so I took advantage of the pain free mobility and headed out to detect a couple of parks this afternoon.
I was early enough, in the afternoon yet, to be able to have the parks to myself for the most part. The local kids were still in school at that time. Besides, they would probably gravitate towards the indoors today anyway, as it was still a bit warm out, and dry. VERY DRY. Walking across the grass from the parking lot to the tot lot at the first park sounded like I was walking on cornflakes or something. “You know it’s been hot when..” When the grass crumbles under your shoes as you walk on it. And..
You know it’s been hot when:
You find nearly if not more change UNDER the shade trees around the tot lots than you do amongst the wood chips.
You find that the woodchips are the consistency of sawdust when you try to dig a target out of them.
You see the vinyl or plastic coating on the swing set chains is dripping off the end of the chains.
Normally pestering flies and moths spontaneously burst into flame if they land on the woodchips next to you while you are digging a target.
Squirrels are mobbing the bird baths and mostly dry creek beds in the parks.
<laughing> Sorry... just had to get some of that out. Yeah, it’s been hot and dry around these parts, as I’m sure it has where a lot of you are at as well. We’ve all heard the horror stories of trying to dig in soil that’s so hard and dry that It’s like digging through concrete... and for what? A Zincoln Penny? <laughing> Well I did just that today. Not all of them were pennies though, and not all of them were in the concrete hard dirt. Some were on top of the dirt, just under the tinder dry chaff that used to be grass until recently. Some coins were recovered from the thoroughly baked woodchips too. But dig I did do, and find I did too. Perhaps it wasn’t my best day of metal detecting, but I’m happy with what I recovered in the time that I spent. I did, however, spend as much or more time under and around the shade trees today as I did in the tot lots though, both because it was hot and dry, and because that’s apparently where other people have been hanging out as well. My first find today, literally ONE STEP from the curb of the parking lot was another one of those bleepin’ GOLF EGGS. Must be one UGLY bird to drop such hard boiled eggs .
It being so hot and all recently, it’s understandable that people would be drinking water, and soda... and lord knows how much beer at the parks. I found and picked up handfuls of pull tabs, bottle caps and these plastic bottle caps that my wife enjoys putting into the computer (the codes anyway).
I found all manner of other “stuff” around and under the trees and the woodchips as well today. Lots of buttons and snaps of course, one little “back” to an earring or a pin of some sort. One of those little pendant “rings” that says “MOMMY” encrusted with little stones of some sort, and some sort of shoe bling with a religious bent I think. A piece of chain from what? A bug zapper? A lighting fixture perhaps?
I found someone’s lost key, I wonder how many that makes now for the little over 4 years I’ve been detecting. I’m going to have to count them up and keep a running total maybe. <laughing> “Number 378..” <shrug>
Today’s hunt was good for the old Used Car lot too... I found a total of four vehicles between the two parks I hunted this afternoon. Three were buried down in the soil, one (the road kill recovery vehicle) was uncovered in the woodchips.
I found a few DOLLAR coins today too. That’s always a rush. One little Indian Maiden (Sacagawea ) Coin near the roots of an old oak tree, about two inches down.... at Park number one. And, I found two Presidential Dollar coins in the woodchips at Park number two.
ChaChing! I like those big coins... well... they’re bigger than quarters and pennies. <smile> I like finding those just as well though. I found over a hundred pennies today between the woodchips and the shade trees and two parks. Wish I could say the same for the quarters or even dimes, but I’ll keep what I found, till vacation anyway.
Not a bad collection for just over two hours hunting time. I would likely have found more, or recovered more if my knee hadn’t started to STOP cooperating. Each time I stooped down to make a recovery my knee would begin throbbing and there was just a ghost of pain as I stood back up. I know better than to push it too much while I’m still mending so I called it a day earlier than I would have liked. Better safe than sorry I guess. Still though, I had a great time and a “GOOD DAY” all the same. I hope you all have as much luck or at least as much enjoyment as well. As always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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