Frodov
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Oh for a THAW!
Oh... My... GOD..!!!! It was such a pretty day today. Well for that matter so was yesterday and the day before.. but I was working those other two days. Today I was off from work and it was GORGEOUS outside. The sun was shining, no wind to speak of, no rain, no snow (falling anyway) and hardly a cloud in the sky. Why the temperatures here in Lexington even rose to the lower 40’s for the first time in what seems like weeks. Having no other obligations to attend to, you KNOW I went detecting! YEEEEHAAAAAWWWW! Well.. that was the thought anyway.
I’ve often read or heard the term “moving glacially”, usually used in a derogatory fashion to complain on how swiftly or perhaps more accurately “slowly” something is moving or progressing. Well After a couple of hours traipsing around town today checking out some parks and testing the waters...er.. woodchips that is.. I can say that the thaw is indeed moving Glacially here in the BlueGrass. We’ve had a bit of snow of late, nothing monumental or noteworthy like some of you out there reading this, but a fair amount of snow, for here, to say the least. And, we’ve had LOTS of COLD weather, nearly a week we never got out of the teens, during the day! Well the snow has mostly melted away now, slowly reducing mountains of pushed or drifted snow into smaller and smaller hills, humps, and bumps of piles of snow. Ah, but there’s the rub! That melting snow turns to water and seeps down into the ground and then overnight when the temps dip again, it freezes again. *sigh* Even my beloved woodchips have fallen victim to this trick of Winter’s mischievousness. Usually, with just a light snow, like we normally get around these parts, the woodchips in the playgrounds and tot lots just get dusted and never really freeze up that much. OH NO! Not this time! They got saturated and then very very Solidly frozen.
Yeah.. I thought I might hit a couple of playgrounds and try my luck for the first time this year with the woodchips. Boy! Digging the chips today was like trying to dig through plywood or OSB (Oriented Strand Board). Unless the targets were pretty much on the surface, it was awfully hard to dig down to them to make a recovery. SHEESH! Yeah, but I’m a diehard and I had to have my detecting fix today, so I tried my luck at a couple of playgrounds all the same, two different parks on two different sides of town.
The first park. Coolivan Park. Not a place I’d normally go to on a warm summer afternoon, but on a cold day or wet miserable day when most people are staying indoors, it’s fair game.
When I arrived there was an unmarked police cruiser parked on the street by the parking lot entrance. Surveillance? Oh well, I geared up and got busy in and around the tot lot there. I was getting targets all over the place, but no many were very shallow. I, of course, recovered those that were shallow. The deeper ones however, went into my mental notebook for a return trip when the glacial permafrost that we’ve developed around here recently finally thaws out.
The second park was a discovery in itself! I wasn’t even aware of this park until today. I was on my way to an entirely different park when I happened to see the sign for this one just off the side of the street. So, of course, I stopped to check it out.
This is a medium sized park for these parts, and has lots of wooded walking trails or paths or whatever you call them, as well as two distinct playground areas. One, an older one with swing sets that no longer have chains or swings and the other missing playground equipment is no longer in use. The second one, is much newer and has new tot lot equipment and those wonderful (when not frozen) woodchips. I visited the woodchips today. And, like the first park earlier, found lots of targets, both shallow and deep. Yeah, I’ll be coming back to this park when it warms up a bit too. I’m going to check out the other end of the park where the older equipment was as well.. and maybe even detect along the walking trails.
Yeah, the day wasn’t a total bust. The weather was wonderful, I got out of the house, I got my metal detecting fix! And, I discovered a new place to hunt! Oh.. and I came away with a nice pocket full of change too. Oh there were other finds.. like the plastic bottle caps that I collect for my darling wife who puts them into the computer for “rewards”.
There was the usual finds of course, pull tabs, buttons, snaps, grommets, rivets, and other miscellaneous metal scrap. One item looks to have been a piece of jewelry at one point or another. It’s a Solid Copper Wire that has been capped on the ends and wrapped with some sort of fabric. Even had stones glued to it (the fabric). <shrug>
I did find one lone Wheaty today. A 1951 D Wheat Penny.. cool.
And.. of course the pocket full of coins in my finds bag was a plus too. More than paid for gas used today getting me from place to place. Got to love this hobby!
Another day off tomorrow, another day in the 40’s, or so the weather man was predicting. Too bad they’re calling for slight chance of showers as well though. Then again, maybe the rain and drizzle will melt that permafrost in the woodchips and elsewhere. Here’s hoping anyway. <smile> Hope you all get to get out and enjoy a little time in the sun this week. And, as always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Oh... My... GOD..!!!! It was such a pretty day today. Well for that matter so was yesterday and the day before.. but I was working those other two days. Today I was off from work and it was GORGEOUS outside. The sun was shining, no wind to speak of, no rain, no snow (falling anyway) and hardly a cloud in the sky. Why the temperatures here in Lexington even rose to the lower 40’s for the first time in what seems like weeks. Having no other obligations to attend to, you KNOW I went detecting! YEEEEHAAAAAWWWW! Well.. that was the thought anyway.
I’ve often read or heard the term “moving glacially”, usually used in a derogatory fashion to complain on how swiftly or perhaps more accurately “slowly” something is moving or progressing. Well After a couple of hours traipsing around town today checking out some parks and testing the waters...er.. woodchips that is.. I can say that the thaw is indeed moving Glacially here in the BlueGrass. We’ve had a bit of snow of late, nothing monumental or noteworthy like some of you out there reading this, but a fair amount of snow, for here, to say the least. And, we’ve had LOTS of COLD weather, nearly a week we never got out of the teens, during the day! Well the snow has mostly melted away now, slowly reducing mountains of pushed or drifted snow into smaller and smaller hills, humps, and bumps of piles of snow. Ah, but there’s the rub! That melting snow turns to water and seeps down into the ground and then overnight when the temps dip again, it freezes again. *sigh* Even my beloved woodchips have fallen victim to this trick of Winter’s mischievousness. Usually, with just a light snow, like we normally get around these parts, the woodchips in the playgrounds and tot lots just get dusted and never really freeze up that much. OH NO! Not this time! They got saturated and then very very Solidly frozen.
Yeah.. I thought I might hit a couple of playgrounds and try my luck for the first time this year with the woodchips. Boy! Digging the chips today was like trying to dig through plywood or OSB (Oriented Strand Board). Unless the targets were pretty much on the surface, it was awfully hard to dig down to them to make a recovery. SHEESH! Yeah, but I’m a diehard and I had to have my detecting fix today, so I tried my luck at a couple of playgrounds all the same, two different parks on two different sides of town.
The first park. Coolivan Park. Not a place I’d normally go to on a warm summer afternoon, but on a cold day or wet miserable day when most people are staying indoors, it’s fair game.
When I arrived there was an unmarked police cruiser parked on the street by the parking lot entrance. Surveillance? Oh well, I geared up and got busy in and around the tot lot there. I was getting targets all over the place, but no many were very shallow. I, of course, recovered those that were shallow. The deeper ones however, went into my mental notebook for a return trip when the glacial permafrost that we’ve developed around here recently finally thaws out.
The second park was a discovery in itself! I wasn’t even aware of this park until today. I was on my way to an entirely different park when I happened to see the sign for this one just off the side of the street. So, of course, I stopped to check it out.
This is a medium sized park for these parts, and has lots of wooded walking trails or paths or whatever you call them, as well as two distinct playground areas. One, an older one with swing sets that no longer have chains or swings and the other missing playground equipment is no longer in use. The second one, is much newer and has new tot lot equipment and those wonderful (when not frozen) woodchips. I visited the woodchips today. And, like the first park earlier, found lots of targets, both shallow and deep. Yeah, I’ll be coming back to this park when it warms up a bit too. I’m going to check out the other end of the park where the older equipment was as well.. and maybe even detect along the walking trails.
Yeah, the day wasn’t a total bust. The weather was wonderful, I got out of the house, I got my metal detecting fix! And, I discovered a new place to hunt! Oh.. and I came away with a nice pocket full of change too. Oh there were other finds.. like the plastic bottle caps that I collect for my darling wife who puts them into the computer for “rewards”.
There was the usual finds of course, pull tabs, buttons, snaps, grommets, rivets, and other miscellaneous metal scrap. One item looks to have been a piece of jewelry at one point or another. It’s a Solid Copper Wire that has been capped on the ends and wrapped with some sort of fabric. Even had stones glued to it (the fabric). <shrug>
I did find one lone Wheaty today. A 1951 D Wheat Penny.. cool.
And.. of course the pocket full of coins in my finds bag was a plus too. More than paid for gas used today getting me from place to place. Got to love this hobby!
Another day off tomorrow, another day in the 40’s, or so the weather man was predicting. Too bad they’re calling for slight chance of showers as well though. Then again, maybe the rain and drizzle will melt that permafrost in the woodchips and elsewhere. Here’s hoping anyway. <smile> Hope you all get to get out and enjoy a little time in the sun this week. And, as always...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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