Frodov
Bronze Member
- Joined
- May 24, 2007
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
HOLY CRAP! FLIPPIN' COINS, Dirty Girls and Leapin' Lizards!
HOLY CRAP!!!! Has it REALLY been a MONTH since my last post? That’s almost a lifetime for this place! I wonder if anyone even remembers me by now…. Hmmm..? Oh well, I know I’ve been busy with work , and.. well.. “Life”.. so I’ve not had as much time to spend on my favorite hobby as I would have liked, but I have gotten out a few times in the past three weeks. Today , for example, after chauffeuring my darling wife to a doctor’s appointment in a city one state away and over an hour and a half’s drive from our home this morning, I managed to get out and swing a little bit after getting back home. Between rain showers that is. I don’t mind the rain so much, as long as there is no lightning involved! Yipes!
There was no lightning today however, and truth be told, little rain, at least at the location I went to detect at anyway. But I’ll get back to that in a bit.. first I have to update or report or post about the hunt from last weekend, or rather the weekend before last now. <rolling eyes> I got out of most of my domestic chores for the morning and got myself down (one town over) to the soccer complex while all the kiddies were in school. Now that I’m back on my wacky work schedule at the job, I get days off in the middle of the week again. We work a continuous operation at “Dixie” in the plastics department.. meaning the manufacturing goes on round the clock, seven days a week. This is accomplished by having “crews” (four of them actually) that work twelve hour shifts with three days (or nights) “on” and three days (or nights) “off”. I know.. there are seven days a week, and if you only work three of them (in a row) you end up working some weekends.. that’s fine by me. I like days off in the middle of the week just as well. <grin> Anyway.. enjoying days off in the middle of the week allows me to detect at some of the places that I’ve had to pass on over the summer as they were packed wall to wall ..er… fence to fence.. with kiddies or soccer games.. or whatever. But now that everyone is back in school.. I’m free to clean up!
Yeah.. clean up! That’s what I did last..er.. the weekend , before, before last. I didn’t even detect out on the actual pitches (playing fields) at the soccer complex, just around the sidelines and to and from the parking lot. Now I know what you’re thinking.. “Do people lose that much coin going and coming? And just sitting around watching?” Yeah! They do! And I’m right there to pick up after them too. <grin> The odd thing is.. very little of my recent finds have been on the surface or “recent losses”. Oddly enough most of what I found was well under the roots of the grass deeper down in the soil. You know you keep hearing the “old timers” on here saying that there’s no such thing as a hunted out park. No matter how hard a place has been hit in the past by yourself or other detectorists.. there’s always more there waiting to be found. YEAH BOY! Is that EVER TRUE! Just quirks of the soil conditions, (moisture etc), atmospheric conditions.. sun spots, how the planets or stars are aligned.. battery condition in your machine.. hearing or attention condition of the operator.. <laughing> Or quite simply how close a coil has come to a particular find in the past I guess. Whatever the reason(s).. I find that that old “saw” is true.. There’s always something left to find. Fine with me! I’ll keep going back.
Three weekends ago I hit the soccer complex hard! I was only there for about three hours total, but I more than got my metal detecting fix for that day.. and HOW! My finds bag was running over! Coins coins coins and more coins! I found a bunch of tash as usual of course and curious odds and ends, two highlights however were the two Referee’s “flipping” coins. I’ve found a bunch of them at this park, first here’s a pick of the latest two I found (that day) ..
… and they were added to the still growing collection of Flipping or “Toss” coins.. check this out..
I found another soccer tournament “pin” too. I won’t show you all of that collection just yet.. <laughing>
And of course there was the coin.. clad.. and lots of it.. <grin>
Now the weekend before last.. was even more productive.. I found ANOTHER Flipping coin.. not one that I already had in my collection mind you, but still neat.
I also found a couple of dirty little Canadian Gals relaxing in the dirt.. Dang foreigners! <grin>
… and of course the finds bag sagging haul of clad.. oh my aching back! <smile>
And TODAY.. I got out to the SAME complex (park) and detected some more. Like I said, I was late getting there in the day.. almost time for school to let out for the day so I only had about two hours to detect the far end of this soccer park. No new Flipping coins today.. but I did find a couple more foreigners .. One is a Euro coin.. the other I’m stumped on. It’s obviously Oriental (Asian) of some origin.. perhaps someone on here can identify it for me. Check them out..
As I said.. I only had a little time to hunt today, but it turned up .. “A little time”.. Indeed! I found a little watch down in the grass roots alongside one of the playing fields. “little” for sure.. the band is tiny! But the watch is still in good working order and other than being a bit dirty, is still in good shape. Check it out…
Leapin’ Lizards! I forgot to tell you I found a lizard today too !
I may not have found as much clad today as the past two outings, but I more than paid for my gas.. I’m happy with it! Here’s everything from today…
You could say that I’ve been busy, but I really haven’t. Not detecting anyway. But what little I did get out I mad the most of my time and enjoyed it immensely! I hope to get out and swing a little again tomorrow, weather permitting. I hope you all get to enjoy this hobby of ours as well. And.. I’ll try not to stay away so long this time too.. <grin> I kind of missed reading up on everyone else’s adventures. As always..
~HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE~
Frodov
HOLY CRAP!!!! Has it REALLY been a MONTH since my last post? That’s almost a lifetime for this place! I wonder if anyone even remembers me by now…. Hmmm..? Oh well, I know I’ve been busy with work , and.. well.. “Life”.. so I’ve not had as much time to spend on my favorite hobby as I would have liked, but I have gotten out a few times in the past three weeks. Today , for example, after chauffeuring my darling wife to a doctor’s appointment in a city one state away and over an hour and a half’s drive from our home this morning, I managed to get out and swing a little bit after getting back home. Between rain showers that is. I don’t mind the rain so much, as long as there is no lightning involved! Yipes!
There was no lightning today however, and truth be told, little rain, at least at the location I went to detect at anyway. But I’ll get back to that in a bit.. first I have to update or report or post about the hunt from last weekend, or rather the weekend before last now. <rolling eyes> I got out of most of my domestic chores for the morning and got myself down (one town over) to the soccer complex while all the kiddies were in school. Now that I’m back on my wacky work schedule at the job, I get days off in the middle of the week again. We work a continuous operation at “Dixie” in the plastics department.. meaning the manufacturing goes on round the clock, seven days a week. This is accomplished by having “crews” (four of them actually) that work twelve hour shifts with three days (or nights) “on” and three days (or nights) “off”. I know.. there are seven days a week, and if you only work three of them (in a row) you end up working some weekends.. that’s fine by me. I like days off in the middle of the week just as well. <grin> Anyway.. enjoying days off in the middle of the week allows me to detect at some of the places that I’ve had to pass on over the summer as they were packed wall to wall ..er… fence to fence.. with kiddies or soccer games.. or whatever. But now that everyone is back in school.. I’m free to clean up!
Yeah.. clean up! That’s what I did last..er.. the weekend , before, before last. I didn’t even detect out on the actual pitches (playing fields) at the soccer complex, just around the sidelines and to and from the parking lot. Now I know what you’re thinking.. “Do people lose that much coin going and coming? And just sitting around watching?” Yeah! They do! And I’m right there to pick up after them too. <grin> The odd thing is.. very little of my recent finds have been on the surface or “recent losses”. Oddly enough most of what I found was well under the roots of the grass deeper down in the soil. You know you keep hearing the “old timers” on here saying that there’s no such thing as a hunted out park. No matter how hard a place has been hit in the past by yourself or other detectorists.. there’s always more there waiting to be found. YEAH BOY! Is that EVER TRUE! Just quirks of the soil conditions, (moisture etc), atmospheric conditions.. sun spots, how the planets or stars are aligned.. battery condition in your machine.. hearing or attention condition of the operator.. <laughing> Or quite simply how close a coil has come to a particular find in the past I guess. Whatever the reason(s).. I find that that old “saw” is true.. There’s always something left to find. Fine with me! I’ll keep going back.
Three weekends ago I hit the soccer complex hard! I was only there for about three hours total, but I more than got my metal detecting fix for that day.. and HOW! My finds bag was running over! Coins coins coins and more coins! I found a bunch of tash as usual of course and curious odds and ends, two highlights however were the two Referee’s “flipping” coins. I’ve found a bunch of them at this park, first here’s a pick of the latest two I found (that day) ..
… and they were added to the still growing collection of Flipping or “Toss” coins.. check this out..
I found another soccer tournament “pin” too. I won’t show you all of that collection just yet.. <laughing>
And of course there was the coin.. clad.. and lots of it.. <grin>
Now the weekend before last.. was even more productive.. I found ANOTHER Flipping coin.. not one that I already had in my collection mind you, but still neat.
I also found a couple of dirty little Canadian Gals relaxing in the dirt.. Dang foreigners! <grin>
… and of course the finds bag sagging haul of clad.. oh my aching back! <smile>
And TODAY.. I got out to the SAME complex (park) and detected some more. Like I said, I was late getting there in the day.. almost time for school to let out for the day so I only had about two hours to detect the far end of this soccer park. No new Flipping coins today.. but I did find a couple more foreigners .. One is a Euro coin.. the other I’m stumped on. It’s obviously Oriental (Asian) of some origin.. perhaps someone on here can identify it for me. Check them out..
As I said.. I only had a little time to hunt today, but it turned up .. “A little time”.. Indeed! I found a little watch down in the grass roots alongside one of the playing fields. “little” for sure.. the band is tiny! But the watch is still in good working order and other than being a bit dirty, is still in good shape. Check it out…
Leapin’ Lizards! I forgot to tell you I found a lizard today too !
I may not have found as much clad today as the past two outings, but I more than paid for my gas.. I’m happy with it! Here’s everything from today…
You could say that I’ve been busy, but I really haven’t. Not detecting anyway. But what little I did get out I mad the most of my time and enjoyed it immensely! I hope to get out and swing a little again tomorrow, weather permitting. I hope you all get to enjoy this hobby of ours as well. And.. I’ll try not to stay away so long this time too.. <grin> I kind of missed reading up on everyone else’s adventures. As always..
~HAPPY HUNTING EVERYONE~
Frodov
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Well I was raised in Lexington, graduated from Lexington Catholic 76 and grew up on the farm off of Spurr Rd. right next to Linlee School. The house I lived in is gone and the only thing standing is the barn, or it was the last time google earth took a pic of it. I do miss the smell of the mornings there and the crisp air. Happy hunting.
Enjoy them immensely.
