piggman1
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- Apr 7, 2007
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With all of this rain we have been having it has been too wet to go to the sports field, or should I say sports swamp. So Sunday since it wasn't raining some friends and I decided to go check out some cliffs behind my old high school. It was built in 1888, and when I attended school there, there were 2 grades in one room. My last year of high school was at a new one they built. Back in the "old days" they used to throw all of their trash over the cliff. Sure enough, all down the sides of the clff are broken bottles, rusted cans, broken pottery, and any other kind of junque they discarded.
We spent a couple of hours digging around finding mostly stuff from the 40's and 50's, but the further you dug back into the cliffs the older it got. We all came away with a few old bottles. I found an "Absolutly Pure Milk" bottle in perfect conditions along with some old glue and paste bottles. My friends found old soda bottles, ink bottles, and a few Indian artifacts. I mean there is a ton of this stuff there. Most bottles are broken from bouncing down the cliffs But there's alot that's not. Finally the mosquitoes got the best of us and we had to leave.
Later that evening we took all the kids to that sports field to let the play with our metal detectors. We figured since the sun had been out a day and a half that it had dried up enough for them to give it a try. They had a blast and found some clad along with a few small trinkets. I left knowing I would be back this morning to start what I hope is the best part of the field. This morning came, I went, and no more than 5 minutes after I got there it started to rain again. I didn't even get in one trip across the field, but.....I did find one more silver ring and a whole 15 cents. This rain is driving me crazy, and it's still raining. So now it will be a few more days before I get back to the field. All in all, it was a great weekend for everyone.
We spent a couple of hours digging around finding mostly stuff from the 40's and 50's, but the further you dug back into the cliffs the older it got. We all came away with a few old bottles. I found an "Absolutly Pure Milk" bottle in perfect conditions along with some old glue and paste bottles. My friends found old soda bottles, ink bottles, and a few Indian artifacts. I mean there is a ton of this stuff there. Most bottles are broken from bouncing down the cliffs But there's alot that's not. Finally the mosquitoes got the best of us and we had to leave.
Later that evening we took all the kids to that sports field to let the play with our metal detectors. We figured since the sun had been out a day and a half that it had dried up enough for them to give it a try. They had a blast and found some clad along with a few small trinkets. I left knowing I would be back this morning to start what I hope is the best part of the field. This morning came, I went, and no more than 5 minutes after I got there it started to rain again. I didn't even get in one trip across the field, but.....I did find one more silver ring and a whole 15 cents. This rain is driving me crazy, and it's still raining. So now it will be a few more days before I get back to the field. All in all, it was a great weekend for everyone.
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