Frodov
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
Back in the swing of things!
Hello everyone! Did you miss me? I’ve certainly missed pursuing this hobby. Today I finally got back in the swing of things though, and did pretty well I might add. Where have I been, you ask? I’ve been hobbled by an unfortunate and very frustrating injury. I blew out my left knee at work nearly five weeks ago. Well, “blew out” as in either pulled or strained a ligament or tendon in my left knee anyway. All I know for certain is that I literally HEARD it as well as felt it “POP” while walking between tasks at work. Granted, I was probably moving at a fast walk, but I wasn’t running hurdles or dragging dead weights or anything , so the injury was not what anyone would call an accident. I think I’m just getting old before my time maybe. I was back at work the next day, with a knee brace and a prescription for Lortab to dull the pain down to tolerable, enough that I could stand up anyway. My tasks at work have reflected my limited mobility for a few weeks though. My time off has reflected this as well. Were it not for the push lawn mower making a pretty good walker, my yard would be a jungle by now. Sheesh! My patience has been tested and found to be extremely worn thin of late. I’ve been away from the beeps and sweeps so long that I’m having withdrawals. Well I WAS having withdrawals anyway, I got a fix today! My knee isn’t back to 100% just yet, but I’m definitely in the home stretch for recovery and healing. Thank God!
Today’s hunt was the first time I’ve been out, in earnest, in weeks. I tried, and I stress the word “TRIED” to go detecting twice prior to today... since my injury... and it was not very pretty. Not very successful either I might add. It’s quite literally a PAIN when you can’t get up and down from standing to kneeling and back in order to pinpoint and dig a target. The first of those two prior attempts lasted all of one attempt... less than five minutes. The second attempt lasted a bit longer, almost twelve whole minutes, or three attempts at kneeling and then standing back up. I found myself trying to use the shaft of my detector as a cane and called it quits till my knee was stronger. That would be today! At LONNNNG LAST!
I woke up this morning with the hope and desire to try to go detecting again. There were predictions of rain and thunderstorms for my area both on last night’s newscast and in the paper this morning. Sure, it was cloudy and VERY humid this morning, even before dawn, but it wasn’t raining yet. I made breakfast for my wife and I, she slept in a bit later today, then after cleaning up I got dressed and headed off to try my luck, and my leg. I’m still a bit stiff in the joints, as to be expected, but with some concentrated stretching and very careful slow movement I found that I could get up and down pretty soundly. What a relief ! Hey BABY! I was BACK IN THE GAME! And I was wet. Besides a little sweating from the heat and humidity, the heavens did eventually open up and shower me and the rest of God’s green earth with some wind driven water. Actually the rain wasn’t that hard and it didn’t last that long. I never stopped detecting, just went under the tree canopy at the schoolyard I was detecting at till it stopped raining. No big deal. And more importantly... NO LIGHTNING! <grin>
Yeah, the first venue of the day, my experimental evaluation of my physical ability was at an elementary school playground just a couple of blocks from my house. I didn’t want to drive all over town or even to the next town over just to find out that I couldn’t manage to get up and down without pain. At any rate, I wasn’t hurting. No pain, or at least nothing severe anyway, I still have a nagging ache that lets me know that I’m still not back to 100%. But the ache is not enough to dissuade me from trying to hunt.
Today’s “finds” aren’t exactly all from today, as I mentioned a bit earlier. There were two VERY abbreviated hunts prior to this one today. Not much was found, but I have to ‘fess up. That and there was a very short hunt I made weeks and weeks ago, just a day before my leg injury. It was indeed short, I was only able to hunt for about thirty minutes after work the day before I got hurt. I haven’t posted about it till now. So, Today’s finds are from four separate days, spaced weeks apart... does that clear everything up for everyone? <laughing> It doesn’t for me, but there you go. <shrug> That said, my finds bag was nearly running over by the time I got home this afternoon. It looked something like this when I dumped it all out to sort it.
Today I managed to search not one but three different locations before I called it a day. It was still early in the afternoon, but I figured I’d err on the side of caution and not try to overdo it the first day back in the swing so to speak. The first venue was the school down the street. School is back in session hereabouts, but today being a weekend would find most schoolyards vacant. So the second venue was also a schoolyard, albeit a “former” schoolyard. The second playground is for a school that recently was closed and converted to offices for the school board, but the playground is still used by the neighborhood kids. That and the fact that it is or was an older school, there are decades of accumulation of coins and treasures still waiting to be found around the place. Some of which I found today. Lots and Lots of pennies around and under a couple of very large oak trees were dug up today. I can imagine a classroom or two over the years gathered around and under the trees for an “outdoor” class on a nice spring day. Lots of pocket spills over the years to be sure. At one point I had targeted, pinpointed and recovered twenty two coins in about three square foot area... I stayed on my hands and knees rather than standing and kneeling repeatedly. I bet that was a sight. Of course, this being an older site than the parks I usually hunt, I found a lot of dated trash as well as coins. Old style Pull tabs, twist off bottle caps, odd hardware bits and pieces, zipper pulls, and the usual playground things like safety pins, snaps and swivels and the like. Some eyeball finds too, plastic and such.
The third and final venue for today was a neighborhood “ball” park on the other side of town. I’ve been there several times over the last few years and I’ve never been skunked there yet. Today was no exception, I found a bunch of stuff. First find of the day here was a token of all things. A Chuck E Cheese Token. Oddly enough, the very LAST find I found at this park today was also a token, several hundred yards away. Oh it wasn’t a Chuckee... but still a token.
At this park I also found a lot of coin, but there were other things as well. I found an old, cheap, flip top lighter that has definitely seen better days. This lighter definitely didn’t hold up well against corrosion.
I found keys and tags, not too unusual I suppose...
A little unusual, and somewhat different was a keychain “fob” unearthed. I’ve found another one just like it, if somewhat the worse for wear, at another park on the other side of town. And, it’s kind of neat because it’s for (from?) the place that my wife and I like to go to on vacation every year...
Did I mention digging up a Cadillac? Well, the HOOD of one anyway. I’m thinking a model from the 1970’s perhaps.
Okay... so it was the hood of a TOY Cadillac... <grin> The next find was, well, I’m not sure what it was, or is. It’s my “Whatzit” for the day I suppose.
Kind of looks like bling of some sort, don’t know what, but something. Speaking of “bling” I did find some of that today. One small bracelet at the second schoolyard, looks like it’s a cheap metal “accessory” thing with a leather band threaded through it. The other bling was four earrings, two individual pieces and one WHOLE SET! It’s rare that I find more than one earring of a set. Too bad, I guess that they are all junk or cheap bling. <shrug> Oh well it was still a thrill to find them all the same.
Lastly, there was the clad. I mentioned that I had found a pile of coin... an accumulation of, what? Four different days hunting. Not really, the first three hunts, all fifty minutes combined, I only put about two and a half dollars in my finds bag. The majority of the clad was found today between the three sites I hunted, with the lion’s share (no pun intended) being found at the ball park. Added all together it came to a little over twelve dollars. That’ll make a fine contribution to the vacation fund.
Treasures and coin are always a joy to find. But today’s best find, to be sure, was finding that I could finally get back in the swing of things and continue enjoying this hobby again. THANK GOODNESS! I hope you all got to get out or will get to get out and have a little fun this weekend too. Tomorrow is supposed to be rain and storms most of the day again, but I’m not discouraged. The Kentucky State Fair is underway and I’ve already promised my darling wife that we would go and check it out. Now that I’ve demonstrated that I’m able to get around well enough to detect, I’ve got no excuse to NOT go and walk all over God’s creation checking out the sites and eating “Fair Food” and shopping and... well... you get the idea. <raised eyebrows> Hey... A promise is a promise. Hope you all have fun too!
As always... ~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Hello everyone! Did you miss me? I’ve certainly missed pursuing this hobby. Today I finally got back in the swing of things though, and did pretty well I might add. Where have I been, you ask? I’ve been hobbled by an unfortunate and very frustrating injury. I blew out my left knee at work nearly five weeks ago. Well, “blew out” as in either pulled or strained a ligament or tendon in my left knee anyway. All I know for certain is that I literally HEARD it as well as felt it “POP” while walking between tasks at work. Granted, I was probably moving at a fast walk, but I wasn’t running hurdles or dragging dead weights or anything , so the injury was not what anyone would call an accident. I think I’m just getting old before my time maybe. I was back at work the next day, with a knee brace and a prescription for Lortab to dull the pain down to tolerable, enough that I could stand up anyway. My tasks at work have reflected my limited mobility for a few weeks though. My time off has reflected this as well. Were it not for the push lawn mower making a pretty good walker, my yard would be a jungle by now. Sheesh! My patience has been tested and found to be extremely worn thin of late. I’ve been away from the beeps and sweeps so long that I’m having withdrawals. Well I WAS having withdrawals anyway, I got a fix today! My knee isn’t back to 100% just yet, but I’m definitely in the home stretch for recovery and healing. Thank God!
Today’s hunt was the first time I’ve been out, in earnest, in weeks. I tried, and I stress the word “TRIED” to go detecting twice prior to today... since my injury... and it was not very pretty. Not very successful either I might add. It’s quite literally a PAIN when you can’t get up and down from standing to kneeling and back in order to pinpoint and dig a target. The first of those two prior attempts lasted all of one attempt... less than five minutes. The second attempt lasted a bit longer, almost twelve whole minutes, or three attempts at kneeling and then standing back up. I found myself trying to use the shaft of my detector as a cane and called it quits till my knee was stronger. That would be today! At LONNNNG LAST!
I woke up this morning with the hope and desire to try to go detecting again. There were predictions of rain and thunderstorms for my area both on last night’s newscast and in the paper this morning. Sure, it was cloudy and VERY humid this morning, even before dawn, but it wasn’t raining yet. I made breakfast for my wife and I, she slept in a bit later today, then after cleaning up I got dressed and headed off to try my luck, and my leg. I’m still a bit stiff in the joints, as to be expected, but with some concentrated stretching and very careful slow movement I found that I could get up and down pretty soundly. What a relief ! Hey BABY! I was BACK IN THE GAME! And I was wet. Besides a little sweating from the heat and humidity, the heavens did eventually open up and shower me and the rest of God’s green earth with some wind driven water. Actually the rain wasn’t that hard and it didn’t last that long. I never stopped detecting, just went under the tree canopy at the schoolyard I was detecting at till it stopped raining. No big deal. And more importantly... NO LIGHTNING! <grin>
Yeah, the first venue of the day, my experimental evaluation of my physical ability was at an elementary school playground just a couple of blocks from my house. I didn’t want to drive all over town or even to the next town over just to find out that I couldn’t manage to get up and down without pain. At any rate, I wasn’t hurting. No pain, or at least nothing severe anyway, I still have a nagging ache that lets me know that I’m still not back to 100%. But the ache is not enough to dissuade me from trying to hunt.
Today’s “finds” aren’t exactly all from today, as I mentioned a bit earlier. There were two VERY abbreviated hunts prior to this one today. Not much was found, but I have to ‘fess up. That and there was a very short hunt I made weeks and weeks ago, just a day before my leg injury. It was indeed short, I was only able to hunt for about thirty minutes after work the day before I got hurt. I haven’t posted about it till now. So, Today’s finds are from four separate days, spaced weeks apart... does that clear everything up for everyone? <laughing> It doesn’t for me, but there you go. <shrug> That said, my finds bag was nearly running over by the time I got home this afternoon. It looked something like this when I dumped it all out to sort it.
Today I managed to search not one but three different locations before I called it a day. It was still early in the afternoon, but I figured I’d err on the side of caution and not try to overdo it the first day back in the swing so to speak. The first venue was the school down the street. School is back in session hereabouts, but today being a weekend would find most schoolyards vacant. So the second venue was also a schoolyard, albeit a “former” schoolyard. The second playground is for a school that recently was closed and converted to offices for the school board, but the playground is still used by the neighborhood kids. That and the fact that it is or was an older school, there are decades of accumulation of coins and treasures still waiting to be found around the place. Some of which I found today. Lots and Lots of pennies around and under a couple of very large oak trees were dug up today. I can imagine a classroom or two over the years gathered around and under the trees for an “outdoor” class on a nice spring day. Lots of pocket spills over the years to be sure. At one point I had targeted, pinpointed and recovered twenty two coins in about three square foot area... I stayed on my hands and knees rather than standing and kneeling repeatedly. I bet that was a sight. Of course, this being an older site than the parks I usually hunt, I found a lot of dated trash as well as coins. Old style Pull tabs, twist off bottle caps, odd hardware bits and pieces, zipper pulls, and the usual playground things like safety pins, snaps and swivels and the like. Some eyeball finds too, plastic and such.
The third and final venue for today was a neighborhood “ball” park on the other side of town. I’ve been there several times over the last few years and I’ve never been skunked there yet. Today was no exception, I found a bunch of stuff. First find of the day here was a token of all things. A Chuck E Cheese Token. Oddly enough, the very LAST find I found at this park today was also a token, several hundred yards away. Oh it wasn’t a Chuckee... but still a token.
At this park I also found a lot of coin, but there were other things as well. I found an old, cheap, flip top lighter that has definitely seen better days. This lighter definitely didn’t hold up well against corrosion.
I found keys and tags, not too unusual I suppose...
A little unusual, and somewhat different was a keychain “fob” unearthed. I’ve found another one just like it, if somewhat the worse for wear, at another park on the other side of town. And, it’s kind of neat because it’s for (from?) the place that my wife and I like to go to on vacation every year...
Did I mention digging up a Cadillac? Well, the HOOD of one anyway. I’m thinking a model from the 1970’s perhaps.
Okay... so it was the hood of a TOY Cadillac... <grin> The next find was, well, I’m not sure what it was, or is. It’s my “Whatzit” for the day I suppose.
Kind of looks like bling of some sort, don’t know what, but something. Speaking of “bling” I did find some of that today. One small bracelet at the second schoolyard, looks like it’s a cheap metal “accessory” thing with a leather band threaded through it. The other bling was four earrings, two individual pieces and one WHOLE SET! It’s rare that I find more than one earring of a set. Too bad, I guess that they are all junk or cheap bling. <shrug> Oh well it was still a thrill to find them all the same.
Lastly, there was the clad. I mentioned that I had found a pile of coin... an accumulation of, what? Four different days hunting. Not really, the first three hunts, all fifty minutes combined, I only put about two and a half dollars in my finds bag. The majority of the clad was found today between the three sites I hunted, with the lion’s share (no pun intended) being found at the ball park. Added all together it came to a little over twelve dollars. That’ll make a fine contribution to the vacation fund.
Treasures and coin are always a joy to find. But today’s best find, to be sure, was finding that I could finally get back in the swing of things and continue enjoying this hobby again. THANK GOODNESS! I hope you all got to get out or will get to get out and have a little fun this weekend too. Tomorrow is supposed to be rain and storms most of the day again, but I’m not discouraged. The Kentucky State Fair is underway and I’ve already promised my darling wife that we would go and check it out. Now that I’ve demonstrated that I’m able to get around well enough to detect, I’ve got no excuse to NOT go and walk all over God’s creation checking out the sites and eating “Fair Food” and shopping and... well... you get the idea. <raised eyebrows> Hey... A promise is a promise. Hope you all have fun too!
As always... ~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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glad ur back up n swinging 
MR TUFF
Can't figure out what that thing with the lion on it is. I'm really stumped. Cool hunt. Glad you are back swingin 
