Frodov
Bronze Member
- Joined
- May 24, 2007
- Messages
- 1,021
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
Howwwwwwdeeeeeeeee! How you all doing out there in TNet land tonight? Doing pretty good here in Lexington Kentucky. Well.. I'm inside where it's warm and dry and I'm contented.. with a full belly from dinner, a wonderful day spent with my missus and a new toy to play with.
This weekend was not very promising as far as metal detecting goes, or so it had seemed Friday night when it was raining here in central Kentucky. I had resigned myself to puttering around the house and playing on the computer, watching TV or reading my latest book. However! When I awoke Saturday morning it wasn't raining. Sure it was wet still, and a bit chilly compared to the 70 degree weather we've been enjoying earlier in the week, but I thought "Hmmm.. this same wet chilly morning is going to keep most of the kiddies indoors. What the heck, there are a few tot lots that I've been waiting for just such a morning to go check out, so I scribbled a note to my darling wife who was still sleeping peacefully then jumped in my little truck and went hunting. I knew that I'd have a couple or three hours before my presence would be demanded as she had to attend a weekly meeting with her social group. As long as I was home by lunch time I was golden!
The first Tot lot I hit was still soggy even though it was all woodchips, still though I found quiet a few coins, pennies and a few nickels and a bell. A tiny little bell like you might find on a cat's collar or something similar. Oh well, luck of the draw sometimes I guess huh? Anyway, on to the second Tot lot on my list. This one is actually a school playground and it consisted of two lots actually, one on either side of the school. Again, more pennies and nickels and a few dimes, pencils and some pull tabs. I found some bling too! There was a tiny little ring, a flower I guess, on a plastic string band the metal was actually very small and difficult to find in the woodchips. The ring was HUGE compared to the little hair bead (for lack of what to call it) that I found next. At first I thought it was a little ear stud or nose stud, then I saw that it was two "stones" stuck together with what I thought was magnets.. turns out that it's actually a small coil spring. I've never seen anything like this before so I really don't know what to call it. Check it out.
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On the other side of the school I found another little bit of bling.. a heart pendant. No Stamps or hallmarks so I doubt that it's silver or anything, but it was kind of cool to unearth all the same. Oh, and a few more coins.
Well by now it's starting to sprinkle again, well, more of a drizzly mist really, but it was getting wet and COLDER. I contemplated calling off my Tour De'Tot Lot for the day and was just about ready to head for home when I thought , "What the heck, there's one more playground on this road and it's on my way home.." So I stopped at the next little park down the road. It's a smaller park, but the playground equipment is not very old and its woodchips see lots of kiddies and even older kids and teenagers in the evening hours. I guess even bigger kids still like to sit and swing sometimes.
This last Tot lot was giving up quite a few coins, mostly pennies, but hey! I'll take'em. Quarters here and there and nickels.. lots of nickels Saturday, unusual. Then.. there was the oddest coin of the day, for me anyway, a little out of place for local currency. I found this 20cent EURO coin along the edge of the playground.
It's gold colored, but I'm sure it's not gold by any stretch of the imagination.. not even sure just how much a 20 cent Euro coin compares to U.S. currency. Oh well, it too was neat to find. But wait! I had one more find waiting to be discovered that cold wet drizzly morning... A ring! It rang up as a big fifty cent piece on my detector. I figured it was another quarter or two fairly close to the surface. It wasn't though. Check out this bad boy!
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I sat back on my heels and took a moment to catch my breath.. or rather to catch it back.. the sight of that shiny "silvery" glow at the bottom of the woodchip hole I'd excavated kind of snatched my breath away. I brushed off the grit and grime and the muddy rime from the inside of the band and there it was.. tiny to be sure, but it was there.. that all too welcomed numerical stamp that proclaimed this treasure as being INDEED "Treasure". *925* I really like that number anymore! Sweeet! WOOOOHOOOO! Yes, I did the happy dance! Hopping and twirling with delight in the early morning light in the drizzly cold wet misty rain amongst the woodchips and playground equipment. Probably a good thing that most of the people of a right mind were still indoors and out of the weather. They didn't really need to see this soggy sodden fool with a metal detector hopping around whooping like demented dervish.
Well I did regain my senses and figured that I couldn't top that find for the day, and it didn't look like the weather was going to get any better so I *DID* call it a day after that. I was beaming with a grin that I couldn't wipe off when I got home. I barely had enough time to sort through my finds and take some pictures though, as my wife had other plans for the rest of the day. It was off to the market, then on to see some friends and visit for a while. We were invited to a "Wii" party. Our friends had been enjoying their game console and playing since back before Christmas and had been after us (My wife and I) to come to their house and check it out sometime. Well Saturday was the day, rainy and no other plans so a Wii'ing we went. It was actually quite fun to be honest, the bowling was a blast. Of course I had to share my big silver ring find to everyone as well, which I didn't mind one bit. <grin> Only bad thing to come out of the evening was having to spend money.. *sigh* While I enjoyed the fun and games, my wife fell in LOVE with the Game system. So guess what we did today? <nodding> Yep, we went shopping and obtained our very own Wii system and I got to install it and set it up this afternoon. My darling wife is practicing her Wii tennis even as I type this in.. and urging me to come join her so that she can beat my butt in electronic Wii tennis. <shudder> Oh well, whatever keeps her happy... it works out in the long run for me too.. I don't get as much flack about pursuing my hobby of metal detecting. <grin> Ah how the devious mind works heh heh heh. Anyway, back to yesterday's Tour De'Tot Lot. That ring was a keeper for sure, and the coin adds up nicely as well, not a lot yesterday, but worth it all the same. Here's a pic of the cash findings..
... only a little over three dollars in coin, not huge, but not bad either. I might have spent about $1.20 in gas driving from playground to playground to home, so still a bonus. Ahhh.. a nice day, even if the weather was crappy. I hope you all have as much or better still BETTER luck than I this past weekend. As always..
Happy Hunting~
Frodov
... now to go Wii myself.. <laughing>
This weekend was not very promising as far as metal detecting goes, or so it had seemed Friday night when it was raining here in central Kentucky. I had resigned myself to puttering around the house and playing on the computer, watching TV or reading my latest book. However! When I awoke Saturday morning it wasn't raining. Sure it was wet still, and a bit chilly compared to the 70 degree weather we've been enjoying earlier in the week, but I thought "Hmmm.. this same wet chilly morning is going to keep most of the kiddies indoors. What the heck, there are a few tot lots that I've been waiting for just such a morning to go check out, so I scribbled a note to my darling wife who was still sleeping peacefully then jumped in my little truck and went hunting. I knew that I'd have a couple or three hours before my presence would be demanded as she had to attend a weekly meeting with her social group. As long as I was home by lunch time I was golden!
The first Tot lot I hit was still soggy even though it was all woodchips, still though I found quiet a few coins, pennies and a few nickels and a bell. A tiny little bell like you might find on a cat's collar or something similar. Oh well, luck of the draw sometimes I guess huh? Anyway, on to the second Tot lot on my list. This one is actually a school playground and it consisted of two lots actually, one on either side of the school. Again, more pennies and nickels and a few dimes, pencils and some pull tabs. I found some bling too! There was a tiny little ring, a flower I guess, on a plastic string band the metal was actually very small and difficult to find in the woodchips. The ring was HUGE compared to the little hair bead (for lack of what to call it) that I found next. At first I thought it was a little ear stud or nose stud, then I saw that it was two "stones" stuck together with what I thought was magnets.. turns out that it's actually a small coil spring. I've never seen anything like this before so I really don't know what to call it. Check it out.
;On the other side of the school I found another little bit of bling.. a heart pendant. No Stamps or hallmarks so I doubt that it's silver or anything, but it was kind of cool to unearth all the same. Oh, and a few more coins.
Well by now it's starting to sprinkle again, well, more of a drizzly mist really, but it was getting wet and COLDER. I contemplated calling off my Tour De'Tot Lot for the day and was just about ready to head for home when I thought , "What the heck, there's one more playground on this road and it's on my way home.." So I stopped at the next little park down the road. It's a smaller park, but the playground equipment is not very old and its woodchips see lots of kiddies and even older kids and teenagers in the evening hours. I guess even bigger kids still like to sit and swing sometimes.
This last Tot lot was giving up quite a few coins, mostly pennies, but hey! I'll take'em. Quarters here and there and nickels.. lots of nickels Saturday, unusual. Then.. there was the oddest coin of the day, for me anyway, a little out of place for local currency. I found this 20cent EURO coin along the edge of the playground.
It's gold colored, but I'm sure it's not gold by any stretch of the imagination.. not even sure just how much a 20 cent Euro coin compares to U.S. currency. Oh well, it too was neat to find. But wait! I had one more find waiting to be discovered that cold wet drizzly morning... A ring! It rang up as a big fifty cent piece on my detector. I figured it was another quarter or two fairly close to the surface. It wasn't though. Check out this bad boy!
;I sat back on my heels and took a moment to catch my breath.. or rather to catch it back.. the sight of that shiny "silvery" glow at the bottom of the woodchip hole I'd excavated kind of snatched my breath away. I brushed off the grit and grime and the muddy rime from the inside of the band and there it was.. tiny to be sure, but it was there.. that all too welcomed numerical stamp that proclaimed this treasure as being INDEED "Treasure". *925* I really like that number anymore! Sweeet! WOOOOHOOOO! Yes, I did the happy dance! Hopping and twirling with delight in the early morning light in the drizzly cold wet misty rain amongst the woodchips and playground equipment. Probably a good thing that most of the people of a right mind were still indoors and out of the weather. They didn't really need to see this soggy sodden fool with a metal detector hopping around whooping like demented dervish.
Well I did regain my senses and figured that I couldn't top that find for the day, and it didn't look like the weather was going to get any better so I *DID* call it a day after that. I was beaming with a grin that I couldn't wipe off when I got home. I barely had enough time to sort through my finds and take some pictures though, as my wife had other plans for the rest of the day. It was off to the market, then on to see some friends and visit for a while. We were invited to a "Wii" party. Our friends had been enjoying their game console and playing since back before Christmas and had been after us (My wife and I) to come to their house and check it out sometime. Well Saturday was the day, rainy and no other plans so a Wii'ing we went. It was actually quite fun to be honest, the bowling was a blast. Of course I had to share my big silver ring find to everyone as well, which I didn't mind one bit. <grin> Only bad thing to come out of the evening was having to spend money.. *sigh* While I enjoyed the fun and games, my wife fell in LOVE with the Game system. So guess what we did today? <nodding> Yep, we went shopping and obtained our very own Wii system and I got to install it and set it up this afternoon. My darling wife is practicing her Wii tennis even as I type this in.. and urging me to come join her so that she can beat my butt in electronic Wii tennis. <shudder> Oh well, whatever keeps her happy... it works out in the long run for me too.. I don't get as much flack about pursuing my hobby of metal detecting. <grin> Ah how the devious mind works heh heh heh. Anyway, back to yesterday's Tour De'Tot Lot. That ring was a keeper for sure, and the coin adds up nicely as well, not a lot yesterday, but worth it all the same. Here's a pic of the cash findings..
... only a little over three dollars in coin, not huge, but not bad either. I might have spent about $1.20 in gas driving from playground to playground to home, so still a bonus. Ahhh.. a nice day, even if the weather was crappy. I hope you all have as much or better still BETTER luck than I this past weekend. As always..
Happy Hunting~
Frodov
... now to go Wii myself.. <laughing>
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? Were you trying to "Cover Up" something? <grin> I've never travled abroad and have never encountered a bathroom attendant.. I'd be totally unprepared and unschooled in etiquett concerning tipping or Covering up and running.. <grin> I'll bet there's more to that story! 
