Frodov
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Top O' the Mornin' to ya! Or Evening as the case may be. Yes, Another Saint Patrick's Day has come and gone. How did you spend the day? My day was spent pursuing this wonderfull hobby.. well, at least the last couple of hours of it anyway. I began my day in a waiting room.
Yes, Waiting room, I'm sick, illing, got sinusitis and all that drainage is clogging up the pipes. But it wasn't a doctor's waiting room I was in this morning, it was at my local Midas Store. I had to have my little white truck looked at today. I've noticed over the past two weeks that my little wagon wants to pull to the right if I don't have at least one hand firmly on the steering wheel keeping it corrected. Oh Goody! With all this winter's new crop of pot holes in the streets I was thinking that I was going to need a front end alignment.. could be expensive. I wasn't though, didn't need an alignment after all, one of my front tires had a couple of cords separate (radial tires) and it was causing my truck to pull to the right, a simply cross rotation of the tires and I was no longer pulling to one side. Of course I'm going to need new tires this summer, but it was an expense that I didn't incur today anyway. Feeling better, about my ride anyway, I returned home and found that I was at loose ends today, being a day off and no errands to run (*GASP*)
I dosed myself with another round of decongestant and grabbed my detector and headed off to a couple of grade schools I've had my eyes on. In another town, and NOBODY has been detecting these playgrounds! I could hardly wait till school had let out for the day, but I wanted to make sure the School business was done for the day before I made my entrance. While I waited for about an hour, I drove around this little town and checked out some future metal detecting sites. Ah, the sights of Paris... Paris Kentucky that is. Not a bad little town. Anyway by 3:30 I figured I'd waited long enough so I stopped at the first of the two elementary schools I'd planned on searching today.
I wasn't long into the woodchips before I started finding goodies. Mostly clad, but hey! That's Money! Lots of Dimes and Quarters too! I found a portion of a small bracelet, looks like the chain broke. I don't think it's even silver plated from the looks of it, perhaps nickel plated copper or something like that. Not far from that was my first foreign coin of the day, a whopper too! It's a Two Schilling piece, dated 1941.
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I'm thinking someone may have brought this home from the war (World War II) and little Johnny ended up with it, and lost it.. and *I* ended up with it. <grin> I found a few nickels, some pennies and of course pull tabs, but these were mostly older style pull tabs.. "Duck calls" if you will. At one point I looked up and there was a woman in a business suit approaching me from the direction of the school. I stopped detecting to greet her and was informed that she was the principle of the school and was concerned that I might be damaging the playground somehow and was checking to see if that was the case. I reassured her that I was not damaging anything and even showed her how I would go about "digging" a target.. basically just brushing the woodchips aside to get to the coin and then filling the hole back in behind me. That and my giving her one of my cards that my darling wife made for me put the principle's mind to rest. And with that I continued my search of the playground. Of course it didn't hurt that she saw me pick up a couple of drink bottles and a can or two and put them in the garbage can on my way out. I'll be welcomed back to that playground. Of course it might be a year or so before I go back there, take a while to "restock" all the coins that I found today!
At the second school I found the usual clad and pull tabs.. and pencil "heads" (erasure holders), and another foreign coin. This coin is the size of a quarter but it has no decipherable denomination on it, the only English on it is the United Arab Emirates on one side, I guess the rest is in Arabic or whatever. Pretty cool. I also found my Irish Rose at this playground. Some little girl was heartbroken today when she discovered it missing I'm sure. Well maybe not, this little pin still had the back on it, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't being worn when it was lost in the woodchips.
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Perhaps it was in a pocket and got spilled like so many coins that I was finding. SHEESH! Not a record day for me by any stretch of the imagination, but a VERY good day all the same.
Between the two grade school playgrounds I found $7.66 in clad, Two Schillings, One (whatever the hell it is) United Arab Emirates coin, One gold or gold plated rose pin with two green gemstones (real?), and the usual mix of pull tabs and pencil heads etc. Of course I didn't realize that till I got home and counted everything. I was just relieved that I'd not lost my phone. Oh yeah..forgot to mention that I nearly lost my cell phone while detecting today.
I'd just started hunting the first playground this afternoon when my wife called to see what I was up to. After finishing that call I put my phone in my finds bag.. or so I had thought. I stopped to get a soda on my way home and was going to call my wife to let her know I was on my way.. but no phone! I looked in my pockets, looked in the truck seat, under the seat, behind the seat.. looked in my finds bag, under it, around it, all through the back of my truck... YIKES! Then I started backtracking. I thought of the last time I'd used the phone and headed back to the first grade school playground.. sure enough, there it was! WHEW! I got back in my truck and headed home, calling my wife to let her know and tell her about my little panic session. SHEESH!
Anyway, that's how I spent my Saint Patrick's Day. For the most part it was rather enjoyable, and somewhat profitable, if not monetarily at least for my well being. Any day I can get out and swing the detector is a good day in my book. Hope you all had a good day too. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
Yes, Waiting room, I'm sick, illing, got sinusitis and all that drainage is clogging up the pipes. But it wasn't a doctor's waiting room I was in this morning, it was at my local Midas Store. I had to have my little white truck looked at today. I've noticed over the past two weeks that my little wagon wants to pull to the right if I don't have at least one hand firmly on the steering wheel keeping it corrected. Oh Goody! With all this winter's new crop of pot holes in the streets I was thinking that I was going to need a front end alignment.. could be expensive. I wasn't though, didn't need an alignment after all, one of my front tires had a couple of cords separate (radial tires) and it was causing my truck to pull to the right, a simply cross rotation of the tires and I was no longer pulling to one side. Of course I'm going to need new tires this summer, but it was an expense that I didn't incur today anyway. Feeling better, about my ride anyway, I returned home and found that I was at loose ends today, being a day off and no errands to run (*GASP*)
I dosed myself with another round of decongestant and grabbed my detector and headed off to a couple of grade schools I've had my eyes on. In another town, and NOBODY has been detecting these playgrounds! I could hardly wait till school had let out for the day, but I wanted to make sure the School business was done for the day before I made my entrance. While I waited for about an hour, I drove around this little town and checked out some future metal detecting sites. Ah, the sights of Paris... Paris Kentucky that is. Not a bad little town. Anyway by 3:30 I figured I'd waited long enough so I stopped at the first of the two elementary schools I'd planned on searching today.
I wasn't long into the woodchips before I started finding goodies. Mostly clad, but hey! That's Money! Lots of Dimes and Quarters too! I found a portion of a small bracelet, looks like the chain broke. I don't think it's even silver plated from the looks of it, perhaps nickel plated copper or something like that. Not far from that was my first foreign coin of the day, a whopper too! It's a Two Schilling piece, dated 1941.
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I'm thinking someone may have brought this home from the war (World War II) and little Johnny ended up with it, and lost it.. and *I* ended up with it. <grin> I found a few nickels, some pennies and of course pull tabs, but these were mostly older style pull tabs.. "Duck calls" if you will. At one point I looked up and there was a woman in a business suit approaching me from the direction of the school. I stopped detecting to greet her and was informed that she was the principle of the school and was concerned that I might be damaging the playground somehow and was checking to see if that was the case. I reassured her that I was not damaging anything and even showed her how I would go about "digging" a target.. basically just brushing the woodchips aside to get to the coin and then filling the hole back in behind me. That and my giving her one of my cards that my darling wife made for me put the principle's mind to rest. And with that I continued my search of the playground. Of course it didn't hurt that she saw me pick up a couple of drink bottles and a can or two and put them in the garbage can on my way out. I'll be welcomed back to that playground. Of course it might be a year or so before I go back there, take a while to "restock" all the coins that I found today!
At the second school I found the usual clad and pull tabs.. and pencil "heads" (erasure holders), and another foreign coin. This coin is the size of a quarter but it has no decipherable denomination on it, the only English on it is the United Arab Emirates on one side, I guess the rest is in Arabic or whatever. Pretty cool. I also found my Irish Rose at this playground. Some little girl was heartbroken today when she discovered it missing I'm sure. Well maybe not, this little pin still had the back on it, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't being worn when it was lost in the woodchips.
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Perhaps it was in a pocket and got spilled like so many coins that I was finding. SHEESH! Not a record day for me by any stretch of the imagination, but a VERY good day all the same.
Between the two grade school playgrounds I found $7.66 in clad, Two Schillings, One (whatever the hell it is) United Arab Emirates coin, One gold or gold plated rose pin with two green gemstones (real?), and the usual mix of pull tabs and pencil heads etc. Of course I didn't realize that till I got home and counted everything. I was just relieved that I'd not lost my phone. Oh yeah..forgot to mention that I nearly lost my cell phone while detecting today.
I'd just started hunting the first playground this afternoon when my wife called to see what I was up to. After finishing that call I put my phone in my finds bag.. or so I had thought. I stopped to get a soda on my way home and was going to call my wife to let her know I was on my way.. but no phone! I looked in my pockets, looked in the truck seat, under the seat, behind the seat.. looked in my finds bag, under it, around it, all through the back of my truck... YIKES! Then I started backtracking. I thought of the last time I'd used the phone and headed back to the first grade school playground.. sure enough, there it was! WHEW! I got back in my truck and headed home, calling my wife to let her know and tell her about my little panic session. SHEESH!
Anyway, that's how I spent my Saint Patrick's Day. For the most part it was rather enjoyable, and somewhat profitable, if not monetarily at least for my well being. Any day I can get out and swing the detector is a good day in my book. Hope you all had a good day too. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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