Frodov
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- May 24, 2007
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
FORK ME SUZY B !
Howdy everyone! At last we’re getting some warmer weather! Spring is Sprung and Everyone is getting Happy! <smile> Well I am anyway. Alas, the problem that accompanies the warmer weather of spring is the sometimes severe weather. We’ve been lucky here in central Kentucky so far, only some rain showers with a little rumble of thunder. There are alerts and watches out for severe thunderstorms even as I type this however. I had all but given up hope of getting out and detecting any this last few days, between work and commitments and the weather. This morning when I got up though the expected rain had yet to materialize. So. I WENT DETECTING! WoooHooo!.
Of course the grass was wet with dew, but the kiddies were all in school and most other people were at work or otherwise occupied. I had the park I had selected to hunt today all to myself. Well, myself and about 30 or 40 ducks and geese that call the lake at this park home. After following me around for about two minutes they decided that I wasn’t going to be feeding them bread or crackers or whatever and wandered back to the water’s edge to do whatever water fowl do to pass the time between “feeders”. <grin> I, on the other hand, got busy! With the intervention of warmer weather the past weekend and most of this week, the park has been full of people determined to get out of the house and into the sun for a while. Boy! Can I identify with that! Anyway, the larger numbers of people and kiddies meant, I had hoped, lots of goodies to be found. Well I was right, there were lots of goodies, and I found a bunch of them. Coins, Bling, Fire! And Flatware!
Now I began the day’s hunt in the woodchips of the large “Imagineering” Tot-Lot at the park. Well, they were a bit drier than the grass after all. Coins everywhere, mostly pennies and dimes, but a couple of surprises were found too. My last hunt I dug up a Kennedy Half and was thrilled. I love finding those bigger coins but they are usually few and far between in my experiences of metal detecting to date. So you can imagine my surprise when I found ANOTHER one today! COOL! What’s more, a few minutes later I found a pretty little Suzy B (Susan B. Anthony) Dollar coin too. Very Cool!
Those weren’t the only big coins I found today either. I found a rather Large “gaming” coin later in the morning on the soccer field at the back of the park. But along with the Kennedy half and the Suzy B in the woodchips I found an odd coin. Says it’s a ring.. but it looks like a coin to me.
What’s a “Blessing Ring”? Weird. And neat. Well that coin may not look like a ring.. but I did find not one but TWO rings today. Both of them are pretty much “junque” I’m sure, but they are not gumball machine rings for a change. One, the Peace sign ring, has a Stamp on the inside. Looks like a number 8. Whatever it is, it was fun to find.
The fact that I was hunting a tot lot as well as the rest of the park, of course there were the usual playground finds too. Shoe Bling, buttons and snaps, zipper pulls (not pictured today) as well as some athletics field normal finds like studs from the bottom of cleats, and vampire clips. Oh I’m sorry, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, “Vampire clips” are those hideous little aluminum clips that secure the ends of the “ace-bandage” wraps.... they have wickedly sharp little fangs indeed! Also pictured here is the nose bridge to some poor soul’s glasses. Weird find that.
And then there was the fire... Yes. “Fire”. Innocent fire in the form of some little gal’s lip gloss... and more seriously inflammatory combustibles like the lighters I found. One, the disposable, still worked and was found amongst the woodchips. The “Knock-off” , which doesn’t work for some reason, was dug up near the soccer fields from the dirt and grass. The special 2007 edition Zippo will light no more.. anything. Well perhaps my imagination, maybe.
Well the morning was getting on towards noon by the time I was finishing up with the soccer field at this park, and the clouds were not only getting darker but actually starting to shed some moisture. It wasn’t raining yet, not even enough to call a decent sprinkle really, but there was thunder in the distance and I could see flashes of lightning forking from cloud to cloud on the horizon. Oh yeah, storms were predicted by our local weather prognosticators for today. I’d been having so much fun detecting I’d almost forgotten that little important tidbit of information. So as I headed back to my truck to call it a day, of detecting anyway, I was surprised by my next find. It wasn’t my last find, but it was one of the oddest. I think I’m going to have to start a new kind of collection.. cutlery. Well, “flatware” perhaps. The strong “quarter” signal I was getting with my Prizm IV turned out to be a fork. Well FORK ME! <laughing> Yeah, I kept it. It’ll go into the junk drawer until I decide to start a new collection or not. If nothing else it can be used in the camping kit. We never take the “good service” camping. Sometimes plastic forks , spoons and knives just don’t .. well.. cut it, when camping after all. And if you lose one of the junk drawer pieces, well, someone else can dig it up while detecting sometime in the future. <grin> No great loss.
Oh and there were Tabs found too... Old ones and newer ones... can't get away from themnow can we?
Big Coins! Fired up! Bling! (even if it’s junque) And got Forked too! Yeah, it was a pretty good morning’s hunt I’d say. The clad count wasn’t too bad either. More money for the vacation fund.
*sigh* Too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow and work all weekend. I’m stoked! I’d rather just go detecting again, somewhere, provided it’s not flashing lightning or raining cats and dogs, like it is outside as I type this in. Oh well, perhaps by my next day off the weather will be more cooperative. I hope all the rest of you got to get out or will get to get out this weekend to play a little. Here’s wishing you luck, and as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Howdy everyone! At last we’re getting some warmer weather! Spring is Sprung and Everyone is getting Happy! <smile> Well I am anyway. Alas, the problem that accompanies the warmer weather of spring is the sometimes severe weather. We’ve been lucky here in central Kentucky so far, only some rain showers with a little rumble of thunder. There are alerts and watches out for severe thunderstorms even as I type this however. I had all but given up hope of getting out and detecting any this last few days, between work and commitments and the weather. This morning when I got up though the expected rain had yet to materialize. So. I WENT DETECTING! WoooHooo!.
Of course the grass was wet with dew, but the kiddies were all in school and most other people were at work or otherwise occupied. I had the park I had selected to hunt today all to myself. Well, myself and about 30 or 40 ducks and geese that call the lake at this park home. After following me around for about two minutes they decided that I wasn’t going to be feeding them bread or crackers or whatever and wandered back to the water’s edge to do whatever water fowl do to pass the time between “feeders”. <grin> I, on the other hand, got busy! With the intervention of warmer weather the past weekend and most of this week, the park has been full of people determined to get out of the house and into the sun for a while. Boy! Can I identify with that! Anyway, the larger numbers of people and kiddies meant, I had hoped, lots of goodies to be found. Well I was right, there were lots of goodies, and I found a bunch of them. Coins, Bling, Fire! And Flatware!
Now I began the day’s hunt in the woodchips of the large “Imagineering” Tot-Lot at the park. Well, they were a bit drier than the grass after all. Coins everywhere, mostly pennies and dimes, but a couple of surprises were found too. My last hunt I dug up a Kennedy Half and was thrilled. I love finding those bigger coins but they are usually few and far between in my experiences of metal detecting to date. So you can imagine my surprise when I found ANOTHER one today! COOL! What’s more, a few minutes later I found a pretty little Suzy B (Susan B. Anthony) Dollar coin too. Very Cool!
Those weren’t the only big coins I found today either. I found a rather Large “gaming” coin later in the morning on the soccer field at the back of the park. But along with the Kennedy half and the Suzy B in the woodchips I found an odd coin. Says it’s a ring.. but it looks like a coin to me.
What’s a “Blessing Ring”? Weird. And neat. Well that coin may not look like a ring.. but I did find not one but TWO rings today. Both of them are pretty much “junque” I’m sure, but they are not gumball machine rings for a change. One, the Peace sign ring, has a Stamp on the inside. Looks like a number 8. Whatever it is, it was fun to find.
The fact that I was hunting a tot lot as well as the rest of the park, of course there were the usual playground finds too. Shoe Bling, buttons and snaps, zipper pulls (not pictured today) as well as some athletics field normal finds like studs from the bottom of cleats, and vampire clips. Oh I’m sorry, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, “Vampire clips” are those hideous little aluminum clips that secure the ends of the “ace-bandage” wraps.... they have wickedly sharp little fangs indeed! Also pictured here is the nose bridge to some poor soul’s glasses. Weird find that.
And then there was the fire... Yes. “Fire”. Innocent fire in the form of some little gal’s lip gloss... and more seriously inflammatory combustibles like the lighters I found. One, the disposable, still worked and was found amongst the woodchips. The “Knock-off” , which doesn’t work for some reason, was dug up near the soccer fields from the dirt and grass. The special 2007 edition Zippo will light no more.. anything. Well perhaps my imagination, maybe.
Well the morning was getting on towards noon by the time I was finishing up with the soccer field at this park, and the clouds were not only getting darker but actually starting to shed some moisture. It wasn’t raining yet, not even enough to call a decent sprinkle really, but there was thunder in the distance and I could see flashes of lightning forking from cloud to cloud on the horizon. Oh yeah, storms were predicted by our local weather prognosticators for today. I’d been having so much fun detecting I’d almost forgotten that little important tidbit of information. So as I headed back to my truck to call it a day, of detecting anyway, I was surprised by my next find. It wasn’t my last find, but it was one of the oddest. I think I’m going to have to start a new kind of collection.. cutlery. Well, “flatware” perhaps. The strong “quarter” signal I was getting with my Prizm IV turned out to be a fork. Well FORK ME! <laughing> Yeah, I kept it. It’ll go into the junk drawer until I decide to start a new collection or not. If nothing else it can be used in the camping kit. We never take the “good service” camping. Sometimes plastic forks , spoons and knives just don’t .. well.. cut it, when camping after all. And if you lose one of the junk drawer pieces, well, someone else can dig it up while detecting sometime in the future. <grin> No great loss.
Oh and there were Tabs found too... Old ones and newer ones... can't get away from themnow can we?
Big Coins! Fired up! Bling! (even if it’s junque) And got Forked too! Yeah, it was a pretty good morning’s hunt I’d say. The clad count wasn’t too bad either. More money for the vacation fund.
*sigh* Too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow and work all weekend. I’m stoked! I’d rather just go detecting again, somewhere, provided it’s not flashing lightning or raining cats and dogs, like it is outside as I type this in. Oh well, perhaps by my next day off the weather will be more cooperative. I hope all the rest of you got to get out or will get to get out this weekend to play a little. Here’s wishing you luck, and as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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HH in 2010 
And a great assortment of goodies.
That's an amazing pile of coins.
your title threw me thoughts in a different direction 
