Frodov
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Spring Cleaning, Fairy Hearts and Bangles
Spring has Sprung! Oh yes it has! I just posted yesterday evening about my, at that time, latest adventures in metal detecting. I made a search of three elementary school playgrounds downtown here in my fair city of Lexington Kentucky. I had a good time to be sure, and I found a goodly pile of clad and treasures amongst the woodchips of the playgrounds. I also said in that at the time of writing of that last post that I was considering running down the street to detect yet another schoolyard playground before it got dark on me. Well, as life is want to do sometimes, something else came up and I didn’t actually make it back out for another search yesterday evening. Instead, I was accompanied by my darling wife on another hunt this morning. The predicted rainfall had yet to materialize this morning after breakfast and she knew that I was itching to get out and do some more detecting, so we loaded into my little detector wagon (pickup truck), and headed back downtown to check out a couple more schoolyards that I’ve never detected at before. The first tot lot was a wonderland of woodchips and playground equipment only a couple of years old, and the Spring Cleaning Commenced!
To say that I was probably the first and ONLY person to have detected at this particular playground would be an understatement to be sure. I hadn’t made two sweeps from the edge of the woodchip barrier when I got the first signal. Ten minutes later I was still only three feet from the edge where I had begun the hunt. Coins, coins, coins and more coins! Of course with the occasional pull tab or wad of foil thrown in to keep things interesting, I mean what would a treasure hunt be without the usual suspects? When I finally turned my machine off and returned to my truck, an hour later, my wife had finished reading her magazine she’d brought with her to keep herself entertained. My finds bag was bruising my leg from the weight of coins and goodies picked up. I had honestly lost count after about three dollars in coins, of which there were mostly pennies but with a load of quarters, dimes and a smattering of nickels. I found one lone wheaty and two Canadian Cents at that first playground as well though.
On the same street, several blocks away, I stopped at the second of what would be four schoolyards searched today.. before I got tired and began thinking (being reminded) about lunch. I only found about a dollar or so in coins here, at the third school and the fourth it was about the same story. But there were other treasures found as well as the usual junk and stuff. There were the buttons and snaps and studs that adorn jeans, jackets and other clothing that the kids wear to school.
There were the usual zipper pulls of every make and description...
Of course you can’t detect at a playground, be it a park or a schoolyard and NOT find toys and other plastic bits and pieces of playground flotsam and jetsam.
There was bling to be found today as well. Nothing silver or gold, but somehow I didn’t lose heart, there were bits that certainly looked the part. Shiny trinkets and bangles and a Fairy! Perhaps for good luck!
Yeah.. a real, if not LIVE fairy. Tinkerbell I believe is her name. Poor little thing lost her head I think. Like a bug she’d been pinned to some little girl’s clothing and finally broke free to be rescued from the woodchips by me.
I believe it was at the third of the four schoolyards I searched today that I found tinkerbell. So I don’t think this morning’s first venue was in anyway related to karma for rescuing a lost fairy, famous or otherwise. After stopping by a favorite eatery for lunch for myself and my patiently waiting spouse, we called it a day and headed home. At home I finally emptied out my finds bag and took inventory of the treasures and coins that I’d recovered on today’s adventure. HOLY MOLY! And I thought the last detecting trip was rewarding! I suspected that I had quite a few coins from the first playground this morning, plus those few from the other three as well, but I had no idea just how much the tally would actually be! Spring cleaning is RIGHT! I cleaned house..er.. woodchips this morning. It’ll probably be quite a while before that tot lot “reloads” with donations from the kiddies, at least to the extent of what I found this morning. CHA CHING! Loading up the vacation kitty.
Yeah! A LOT of Coins! Too bad my equipment is beginning to sour on me. Not my trusty Prizm IV, but rather my poor abused little Bullseye II pinpointer.
*sigh* I guess I’m hard on them, this is the third one I’ve owned/used in four years. They all seem to wear thin on the end of the probe and the case cracks out at the base of the probe.
Now I’m experiencing some dodgy on/off button performance as well. I really need to replace this pinpointer and SOON. Too bad my White’s pusher..err.. distributor is closed on weekends. I’ll have to call him on Monday or go by and see if I can get a pro-rated discount or a deal on a new Bullseye II. I can detect without it, but it’s an awful lot more work and not nearly as convenient without it. I’ve been known to load back up and go home instead of detecting when I find that I’ve forgotten to bring it with me. Perhaps the Vacation Kitty will be tapped to replace my Bullseye this time. <smile> Ah Karma! Hope you all get to get out and play soon too. Good luck and as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Spring has Sprung! Oh yes it has! I just posted yesterday evening about my, at that time, latest adventures in metal detecting. I made a search of three elementary school playgrounds downtown here in my fair city of Lexington Kentucky. I had a good time to be sure, and I found a goodly pile of clad and treasures amongst the woodchips of the playgrounds. I also said in that at the time of writing of that last post that I was considering running down the street to detect yet another schoolyard playground before it got dark on me. Well, as life is want to do sometimes, something else came up and I didn’t actually make it back out for another search yesterday evening. Instead, I was accompanied by my darling wife on another hunt this morning. The predicted rainfall had yet to materialize this morning after breakfast and she knew that I was itching to get out and do some more detecting, so we loaded into my little detector wagon (pickup truck), and headed back downtown to check out a couple more schoolyards that I’ve never detected at before. The first tot lot was a wonderland of woodchips and playground equipment only a couple of years old, and the Spring Cleaning Commenced!
To say that I was probably the first and ONLY person to have detected at this particular playground would be an understatement to be sure. I hadn’t made two sweeps from the edge of the woodchip barrier when I got the first signal. Ten minutes later I was still only three feet from the edge where I had begun the hunt. Coins, coins, coins and more coins! Of course with the occasional pull tab or wad of foil thrown in to keep things interesting, I mean what would a treasure hunt be without the usual suspects? When I finally turned my machine off and returned to my truck, an hour later, my wife had finished reading her magazine she’d brought with her to keep herself entertained. My finds bag was bruising my leg from the weight of coins and goodies picked up. I had honestly lost count after about three dollars in coins, of which there were mostly pennies but with a load of quarters, dimes and a smattering of nickels. I found one lone wheaty and two Canadian Cents at that first playground as well though.
On the same street, several blocks away, I stopped at the second of what would be four schoolyards searched today.. before I got tired and began thinking (being reminded) about lunch. I only found about a dollar or so in coins here, at the third school and the fourth it was about the same story. But there were other treasures found as well as the usual junk and stuff. There were the buttons and snaps and studs that adorn jeans, jackets and other clothing that the kids wear to school.
There were the usual zipper pulls of every make and description...
Of course you can’t detect at a playground, be it a park or a schoolyard and NOT find toys and other plastic bits and pieces of playground flotsam and jetsam.
There was bling to be found today as well. Nothing silver or gold, but somehow I didn’t lose heart, there were bits that certainly looked the part. Shiny trinkets and bangles and a Fairy! Perhaps for good luck!
Yeah.. a real, if not LIVE fairy. Tinkerbell I believe is her name. Poor little thing lost her head I think. Like a bug she’d been pinned to some little girl’s clothing and finally broke free to be rescued from the woodchips by me.
I believe it was at the third of the four schoolyards I searched today that I found tinkerbell. So I don’t think this morning’s first venue was in anyway related to karma for rescuing a lost fairy, famous or otherwise. After stopping by a favorite eatery for lunch for myself and my patiently waiting spouse, we called it a day and headed home. At home I finally emptied out my finds bag and took inventory of the treasures and coins that I’d recovered on today’s adventure. HOLY MOLY! And I thought the last detecting trip was rewarding! I suspected that I had quite a few coins from the first playground this morning, plus those few from the other three as well, but I had no idea just how much the tally would actually be! Spring cleaning is RIGHT! I cleaned house..er.. woodchips this morning. It’ll probably be quite a while before that tot lot “reloads” with donations from the kiddies, at least to the extent of what I found this morning. CHA CHING! Loading up the vacation kitty.
Yeah! A LOT of Coins! Too bad my equipment is beginning to sour on me. Not my trusty Prizm IV, but rather my poor abused little Bullseye II pinpointer.
*sigh* I guess I’m hard on them, this is the third one I’ve owned/used in four years. They all seem to wear thin on the end of the probe and the case cracks out at the base of the probe.
Now I’m experiencing some dodgy on/off button performance as well. I really need to replace this pinpointer and SOON. Too bad my White’s pusher..err.. distributor is closed on weekends. I’ll have to call him on Monday or go by and see if I can get a pro-rated discount or a deal on a new Bullseye II. I can detect without it, but it’s an awful lot more work and not nearly as convenient without it. I’ve been known to load back up and go home instead of detecting when I find that I’ve forgotten to bring it with me. Perhaps the Vacation Kitty will be tapped to replace my Bullseye this time. <smile> Ah Karma! Hope you all get to get out and play soon too. Good luck and as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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