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
Hello TNet Fans! How the H311 have you all been? It seems like forever since I last visited, or at least posted here on TNet. I wonder if anyone will even remember me.
Poor poor me... I've been unable to get out and play with my detector for.. well FOREVER it seems.. even if it's only been a few weeks or months *exasperated expression*. Between the holidays, a change in work schedule (OMG I'm on a five day a week, 8 hour a day schedule again for the first time in 5 years!).. and the somewhat rather notable weather of late, I've been sidelined as far as pursuit of this hobby. *sigh* However! This weekend, thanks to Monday being President's Day, is a three day weekend! Time off! Halfway decent weather two days in a row (that I was actually off for), and a darling spouse who saw in me the need to get out and swing and dig. Of course treating her with extra attention on Valentines day might have helped on my part as well.. <grin> Fellas.. you've got to take care and pay attention to your significant other if you want to be able to enjoy your hobbies. <raised eyebrow>
Of course, I think that my being "allowed" to get out and indulge in my detecting might just well have been part of MY Valentine's Day gift from my dear wife. <smile> At any rate, I got out! AT LAST! And I HAD A BLAST!
My wife Val headed off to head a group session that her organization runs for a local hospital, leaving me at loose ends this afternoon. The sun was shining, if between gathering clouds, and the temperature was well above freezing.. for several days now. <grin> I grabbed my detector and headed to a local park. This particular park, while having a bunch of soccer fields and a dog walk and ball fields, etc etc, also is the site of the Lyons Bluegrass Fair (County Fair). The Fairgrounds proper are fenced in and under lock and key.. *sigh* I'd love to get in there sometime and detect.. but outside the fence, there are litterally acres and acres of grass fields that serve as the parking areas for the visitors to the fair when it's open. LOTS of parking space.. lots of space for people to drop things and lose change and stuff... acres and acres..
I was pretty much just happy to get out and turn my detector on and look for anything at all today.. I wasn't going to worry too much about grid searching or lanes or any of that kind of thing today.. no.. today I was happy to just "cherry pick" the parking areas. I parked on one end of one "field" and just sort of ambled my way across the field in a generally straight line... that is if a straight line resembles the zig zagging loop'dee'loop path of a seemingly drunken, blindfolded, half crazed metal detectorist. <laughing> I'm sure anyone looking on from a distance might have thought I was drunk or something. No, I was completely sober, but I was intoxicated by the sweet peeping and beeping in my earphones after so long a silence.
Ahhh.. Nice.. Finds? Oh yeah.. I made some finds! I found all kinds of those good ol' pull tabs, can after can after can.. beer, soda, you name the brand, I found them! I found the older metal twist off caps that were on glass bottles of soda... on beer bottles, on liquor bottles. It's amazing how much trash can get absorbed in the grass and eventually gets buried along with the treasures. Yes, treasures. I think so anyway. A few coins might not be a treasure to some, or even most, but to me it is! Be it a lowly Lincoln Memorial Cent, or a Quarter.. found quite a few of each today, along with some dimes.. a few nickles... I didn't get rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I did ok. A little here, a little there, it adds up after a while.
Of course coins are the only things one finds when out detecting, along with the junk are those oddities that make you sit back on your heels and say "Whatzit?" I found a couple today.. I think I know what both of them are but I thought I'd show them to everyone here as well.. fist off is this little key looking thing. Now at first glance it didn't register in my fevered brain as to what the heck it was.. but then some little wiggly memory worked its way to the surface and I remembered seeing these things when I was a kid. First you look.. see if you can recognize it.
How many of you got it in one? I had to scrape some dirt off and pry out some grass roots before I recognized it.. here is a composite shot with a different angle...
... recognize it yet? Think bathroom sink... or maybe on or near the bathtub or shower... carefull not to cut yourself!
The second "Whatzit" I found today had me scratching my head for a while.. even after scraping the dirt off and pulling out the grass roots. Check it out..
A lighter? nope. A flashlight? nope. Here's a coin for scale in another composite picture..
Grand Prix
the car? hmmm.. maybe these might belong to the same person that lost the "Grand Prix" thingy.. Although they were found 30 yards or so away.. wrapped up in tinfoil of all things.
Then there was this little.. and I mean LITTLE (tiny) little metal tag with some numbers on it. I have no idea what it might have been on or for, but my detector picked it up and I dug it up. Oh.. and the beaded chain was not found with it, that was halfway across the parking lot..er field.. from the tag. <shrug>
I didn't take pictures of all the plastic soda caps that I picked up (coke rewards points) for my wife while detecting.. or the golf balls (3) or the unbroken golf tees (8) that someone left behind, or the bottles and stuff I picked up and dropped in the nearest garbage can. I did take a picture of some of the "stuff" that my detector did pick up and I put in my finds bag... some of it you've seen already close up, but this is the collection.
Oh.. and here's a pic of all the coins I found, after I cleaned them off a bit and counted them it totaled some $9.27. Not a bad couple of hours work.. if you can call it work. <smile>
A little change is nice, a lot of change is nicer.. but getting out and being able to enjoy one's hobby is the nicest! A LONG LAST! It feels SOOOOO GOOOD! Hmmm.. wonder what the weather is going to be like tomorrow.. Presidents' Day.. I'm off! Perhaps I can go play again!?!?!? <Big SMILE>
Glad to be back everyone! Survived the Ice Storm, the aftermath, the cleanup, work and the holidays.. and a seemingly never ending dry spell of not being able to indulge.. but the dry spell is over. I hope you all can get out and enjoy this hobby yourselves, and soon! And as always.. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
Poor poor me... I've been unable to get out and play with my detector for.. well FOREVER it seems.. even if it's only been a few weeks or months *exasperated expression*. Between the holidays, a change in work schedule (OMG I'm on a five day a week, 8 hour a day schedule again for the first time in 5 years!).. and the somewhat rather notable weather of late, I've been sidelined as far as pursuit of this hobby. *sigh* However! This weekend, thanks to Monday being President's Day, is a three day weekend! Time off! Halfway decent weather two days in a row (that I was actually off for), and a darling spouse who saw in me the need to get out and swing and dig. Of course treating her with extra attention on Valentines day might have helped on my part as well.. <grin> Fellas.. you've got to take care and pay attention to your significant other if you want to be able to enjoy your hobbies. <raised eyebrow>
Of course, I think that my being "allowed" to get out and indulge in my detecting might just well have been part of MY Valentine's Day gift from my dear wife. <smile> At any rate, I got out! AT LAST! And I HAD A BLAST!
My wife Val headed off to head a group session that her organization runs for a local hospital, leaving me at loose ends this afternoon. The sun was shining, if between gathering clouds, and the temperature was well above freezing.. for several days now. <grin> I grabbed my detector and headed to a local park. This particular park, while having a bunch of soccer fields and a dog walk and ball fields, etc etc, also is the site of the Lyons Bluegrass Fair (County Fair). The Fairgrounds proper are fenced in and under lock and key.. *sigh* I'd love to get in there sometime and detect.. but outside the fence, there are litterally acres and acres of grass fields that serve as the parking areas for the visitors to the fair when it's open. LOTS of parking space.. lots of space for people to drop things and lose change and stuff... acres and acres..
I was pretty much just happy to get out and turn my detector on and look for anything at all today.. I wasn't going to worry too much about grid searching or lanes or any of that kind of thing today.. no.. today I was happy to just "cherry pick" the parking areas. I parked on one end of one "field" and just sort of ambled my way across the field in a generally straight line... that is if a straight line resembles the zig zagging loop'dee'loop path of a seemingly drunken, blindfolded, half crazed metal detectorist. <laughing> I'm sure anyone looking on from a distance might have thought I was drunk or something. No, I was completely sober, but I was intoxicated by the sweet peeping and beeping in my earphones after so long a silence.
Ahhh.. Nice.. Finds? Oh yeah.. I made some finds! I found all kinds of those good ol' pull tabs, can after can after can.. beer, soda, you name the brand, I found them! I found the older metal twist off caps that were on glass bottles of soda... on beer bottles, on liquor bottles. It's amazing how much trash can get absorbed in the grass and eventually gets buried along with the treasures. Yes, treasures. I think so anyway. A few coins might not be a treasure to some, or even most, but to me it is! Be it a lowly Lincoln Memorial Cent, or a Quarter.. found quite a few of each today, along with some dimes.. a few nickles... I didn't get rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I did ok. A little here, a little there, it adds up after a while.
Of course coins are the only things one finds when out detecting, along with the junk are those oddities that make you sit back on your heels and say "Whatzit?" I found a couple today.. I think I know what both of them are but I thought I'd show them to everyone here as well.. fist off is this little key looking thing. Now at first glance it didn't register in my fevered brain as to what the heck it was.. but then some little wiggly memory worked its way to the surface and I remembered seeing these things when I was a kid. First you look.. see if you can recognize it.
How many of you got it in one? I had to scrape some dirt off and pry out some grass roots before I recognized it.. here is a composite shot with a different angle...
... recognize it yet? Think bathroom sink... or maybe on or near the bathtub or shower... carefull not to cut yourself!
The second "Whatzit" I found today had me scratching my head for a while.. even after scraping the dirt off and pulling out the grass roots. Check it out..
A lighter? nope. A flashlight? nope. Here's a coin for scale in another composite picture..
Grand Prix
the car? hmmm.. maybe these might belong to the same person that lost the "Grand Prix" thingy.. Although they were found 30 yards or so away.. wrapped up in tinfoil of all things. Then there was this little.. and I mean LITTLE (tiny) little metal tag with some numbers on it. I have no idea what it might have been on or for, but my detector picked it up and I dug it up. Oh.. and the beaded chain was not found with it, that was halfway across the parking lot..er field.. from the tag. <shrug>
I didn't take pictures of all the plastic soda caps that I picked up (coke rewards points) for my wife while detecting.. or the golf balls (3) or the unbroken golf tees (8) that someone left behind, or the bottles and stuff I picked up and dropped in the nearest garbage can. I did take a picture of some of the "stuff" that my detector did pick up and I put in my finds bag... some of it you've seen already close up, but this is the collection.
Oh.. and here's a pic of all the coins I found, after I cleaned them off a bit and counted them it totaled some $9.27. Not a bad couple of hours work.. if you can call it work. <smile>
A little change is nice, a lot of change is nicer.. but getting out and being able to enjoy one's hobby is the nicest! A LONG LAST! It feels SOOOOO GOOOD! Hmmm.. wonder what the weather is going to be like tomorrow.. Presidents' Day..
I'm off! Perhaps I can go play again!?!?!? <Big SMILE> Glad to be back everyone! Survived the Ice Storm, the aftermath, the cleanup, work and the holidays.. and a seemingly never ending dry spell of not being able to indulge.. but the dry spell is over. I hope you all can get out and enjoy this hobby yourselves, and soon! And as always.. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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