Frodov
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I knew when I woke up this morning that it was going to be a STRANGE day with a capital S. Here in Kentucky, on Easter Sunday (yesterday) the temperatures were in the cool 50's (Fahrenheit), sunny and seasonable for springtime. The daffodils and crocuses are blooming, the birds are singing and beginning to nest in some cases, just an all around beautiful Spring day. Not this morning though. At 6:00 AM this morning, the day after Easter, there was SNOW on the ground!!!!
!!! And what's more, it was SNOWING!
Ok, so the snow on the ground didn't amount to much more than a light dusting and the snow that was falling was barely a flurry, but STILL! Cloudy, cold, windy and snow. Brrrrr. I had thought I might go metal detecting today and I wake up to this nonsense! So, I made breakfast instead. Bacon, Eggs-in-toast.. on cheese.. My wife was thrilled. <smile> Yeah.. made some Brownie points this morning. After breakfast I settled in my recliner to read the daily rag (newspaper) and salve my desire to go detecting.
After reading the paper and flipping through the tv cable channels for the third time I decided that it wasn't wet outside so I could handle a little nip in the air and by golly I was going to go detecting anyway. Surprisingly enough, my wife decided to join me. <look of shock> Uhhhhh.. Okayyyy. Before she could change her mind I had my detector loaded into the car and we were on our way. I headed downtown, here in Lexington Kentucky, where the city is tearing down a playground due to problems with drugs, alcohol and sex... seems all of those things in one form or any number of combinations have been going on in this Imagine'ered Playground for the last few years and not enough upkeep has been done due to budget restraints.. so they decided to raze it and put up something less challenging maintenance wise and less inviting for the less desirable activities that plagued this one. Long story short, the playground is 14 years old and I seriously doubt anyone has detected there, at least not in the past few years... $$$$$ Hey.. could be a gold mine for a coin fisher like me.
Not... *sigh* Seems that while yes the city is tearing it down to make way for a new playground, this lot is a LONG way from being able to detect yet, they were still moving out the torn down pieces of the wooden playground structures and it didn't look like they were in a hurry to get it done. Besides being cold and snowing and.. well.. I've already covered that. Dang it! So it was back to the house for me and my wife.
Actually, we stopped at the grocery store for a few items on the way.. and got a bargain on some Easter candy marked down, drastically! Less than half price from just yesterday. Well we got a little, but didn't go overboard.. that would have been TOO easy. <grin> We did stop at one of our favorite eateries and have lunch before returning home though, so the outing wasn't a complete loss.
After getting home though I just couldn't get settled in. I still had an itch to get out and swing the detector. I was JONESING MAN!!!! I needed a fix... BAD!!! After my wife got a call from her "boss" at the Volunteer organization she works for, I decided that I was going to go back out and try my luck again, somewhere else. Dang it!
I've been detecting a lot of Tot-Lots and Playgrounds over the winter, and have compiled quite a list of places that I've hunted, and more importantly, a list of places I'd like to hunt eventually. Well "eventually" arrived for one of them today. Actually, I had to mark two of my listed places off the list today but I got to hunt the third one. The two I had to nix were parks inside what turned out to be a gated community, private property.. *sigh* I wish I had known that when I was making that list. Oh well. On to the third site on my list, it was an Elementary School playground in the heart of my State Capital city Frankfort KY. Even thought it's only a couple of miles from the State Capital house and all the legislators etc etc, this school is not the newest or situated in the best of neighborhoods. But, school was out for the day and it was chilly enough to keep most from wanting to hang out in the playground. So, I had the place to myself.. well myself and a city maintenance worker who was diligently touching up some cement and concrete work on a walkway.
Had my luck actually changed? I thought it had, finding some clad nearly as soon as I turned on my detector just a couple of feet from my parking space. Pennies, but still, they were finds! And more, and More.. eventually some dimes, a quarter.. of course there was junk too. pull tabs and what not. Then things took a decidedly downward turn for the worse. I came across this poor little mouse.. decapitated. *sigh* and it was sooooo cute. Who could have done such a thing.
Then there was the skull.. and more bones.. *gulp*
I was beginning to think it was time to move on, if you know what I mean. Who could have been doing all this? But then I discovered the culprit.. possibly.. I mean, maybe.. Who is usually the first suspect in the death of a mouse? Could it be this little felon..er.. feline?
I'm thinking it was, because not far from where I found him(her?) I found the missing head of the mouse. I think his name was Chuck.
This homicide..er.. mouse'icide.. might have been politically motivated though. A conspiracy! A "coup de'tat. Chuck must have been royalty or something, he may have lost his head as well as his crown..
... that or someone was just monkey'ing around with me and pulling my chain..
It was probably the same person or people who kept hiding pull tabs and other crap to keep me busy with my detector. Maybe.... but then I found what might be part of the murder weapon..
<laughing> Looks like an expensive BB-gun magazine. Part of the "smoking gun" perhaps? <grin>
Just when I thought that all was lost however, I found redemption, rebirth, Resurrection.. of sorts.. I Found JESUS! In the Grade School Playground amidst all the dismembered bodies, and bones and woodchips..
.. and lots more clad! Well I didn't strike it rich, monetarily, but I hadn't really expected to in the first place. I *DID* have a great time getting out and detecting, regardless of the fickle weather conditions. I didn't even find enough clad to cover my gas driving from my home (city) to this town to detect here, not to mention the drive back. Oh it's not that terribly far to drive, but still at over $3.00 a gallon for gas ANYWHERE is getting to be expensive. Regardless, I had a good time, I found some neat little items and certainly story worthy material to share with my wife and all of you sorts who bother to read this drivel. I got a neat pen out of it, and one little earring.. don't even think it's silver, the stones are either rhinestones or paste.. possibly CZ but that's probably pushing it too. <grin> Here's the whole lot, all the main characters included.
I hope you all get to get out soon and enjoy this hobby yourselves. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
!!! And what's more, it was SNOWING!Ok, so the snow on the ground didn't amount to much more than a light dusting and the snow that was falling was barely a flurry, but STILL! Cloudy, cold, windy and snow. Brrrrr. I had thought I might go metal detecting today and I wake up to this nonsense! So, I made breakfast instead. Bacon, Eggs-in-toast.. on cheese.. My wife was thrilled. <smile> Yeah.. made some Brownie points this morning. After breakfast I settled in my recliner to read the daily rag (newspaper) and salve my desire to go detecting.
After reading the paper and flipping through the tv cable channels for the third time I decided that it wasn't wet outside so I could handle a little nip in the air and by golly I was going to go detecting anyway. Surprisingly enough, my wife decided to join me. <look of shock> Uhhhhh.. Okayyyy. Before she could change her mind I had my detector loaded into the car and we were on our way. I headed downtown, here in Lexington Kentucky, where the city is tearing down a playground due to problems with drugs, alcohol and sex... seems all of those things in one form or any number of combinations have been going on in this Imagine'ered Playground for the last few years and not enough upkeep has been done due to budget restraints.. so they decided to raze it and put up something less challenging maintenance wise and less inviting for the less desirable activities that plagued this one. Long story short, the playground is 14 years old and I seriously doubt anyone has detected there, at least not in the past few years... $$$$$ Hey.. could be a gold mine for a coin fisher like me.
Not... *sigh* Seems that while yes the city is tearing it down to make way for a new playground, this lot is a LONG way from being able to detect yet, they were still moving out the torn down pieces of the wooden playground structures and it didn't look like they were in a hurry to get it done. Besides being cold and snowing and.. well.. I've already covered that. Dang it! So it was back to the house for me and my wife.
Actually, we stopped at the grocery store for a few items on the way.. and got a bargain on some Easter candy marked down, drastically! Less than half price from just yesterday. Well we got a little, but didn't go overboard.. that would have been TOO easy. <grin> We did stop at one of our favorite eateries and have lunch before returning home though, so the outing wasn't a complete loss.
After getting home though I just couldn't get settled in. I still had an itch to get out and swing the detector. I was JONESING MAN!!!! I needed a fix... BAD!!! After my wife got a call from her "boss" at the Volunteer organization she works for, I decided that I was going to go back out and try my luck again, somewhere else. Dang it!
I've been detecting a lot of Tot-Lots and Playgrounds over the winter, and have compiled quite a list of places that I've hunted, and more importantly, a list of places I'd like to hunt eventually. Well "eventually" arrived for one of them today. Actually, I had to mark two of my listed places off the list today but I got to hunt the third one. The two I had to nix were parks inside what turned out to be a gated community, private property.. *sigh* I wish I had known that when I was making that list. Oh well. On to the third site on my list, it was an Elementary School playground in the heart of my State Capital city Frankfort KY. Even thought it's only a couple of miles from the State Capital house and all the legislators etc etc, this school is not the newest or situated in the best of neighborhoods. But, school was out for the day and it was chilly enough to keep most from wanting to hang out in the playground. So, I had the place to myself.. well myself and a city maintenance worker who was diligently touching up some cement and concrete work on a walkway.
Had my luck actually changed? I thought it had, finding some clad nearly as soon as I turned on my detector just a couple of feet from my parking space. Pennies, but still, they were finds! And more, and More.. eventually some dimes, a quarter.. of course there was junk too. pull tabs and what not. Then things took a decidedly downward turn for the worse. I came across this poor little mouse.. decapitated. *sigh* and it was sooooo cute. Who could have done such a thing.
Then there was the skull.. and more bones.. *gulp*
I was beginning to think it was time to move on, if you know what I mean. Who could have been doing all this? But then I discovered the culprit.. possibly.. I mean, maybe.. Who is usually the first suspect in the death of a mouse? Could it be this little felon..er.. feline?
I'm thinking it was, because not far from where I found him(her?) I found the missing head of the mouse. I think his name was Chuck.
This homicide..er.. mouse'icide.. might have been politically motivated though. A conspiracy! A "coup de'tat. Chuck must have been royalty or something, he may have lost his head as well as his crown..
... that or someone was just monkey'ing around with me and pulling my chain..
It was probably the same person or people who kept hiding pull tabs and other crap to keep me busy with my detector. Maybe.... but then I found what might be part of the murder weapon..
<laughing> Looks like an expensive BB-gun magazine. Part of the "smoking gun" perhaps? <grin>
Just when I thought that all was lost however, I found redemption, rebirth, Resurrection.. of sorts.. I Found JESUS! In the Grade School Playground amidst all the dismembered bodies, and bones and woodchips..
.. and lots more clad! Well I didn't strike it rich, monetarily, but I hadn't really expected to in the first place. I *DID* have a great time getting out and detecting, regardless of the fickle weather conditions. I didn't even find enough clad to cover my gas driving from my home (city) to this town to detect here, not to mention the drive back. Oh it's not that terribly far to drive, but still at over $3.00 a gallon for gas ANYWHERE is getting to be expensive. Regardless, I had a good time, I found some neat little items and certainly story worthy material to share with my wife and all of you sorts who bother to read this drivel. I got a neat pen out of it, and one little earring.. don't even think it's silver, the stones are either rhinestones or paste.. possibly CZ but that's probably pushing it too. <grin> Here's the whole lot, all the main characters included.
I hope you all get to get out soon and enjoy this hobby yourselves. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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Glad to see you got to get out and search a bit and you obviously found some cool stuff as well! Thanks oh so very much for sharing your finds and your great story!
