My FIRST "Key Date" !!!! WoooHooo!

Frodov · May 13, 2009

My FIRST "Key Date" !!!! WoooHooo!

Howdy everyone! I hope you've all been well, and safe.. and dry! It's been very very very damp around my area for a while now. *sigh* Despite the rain and the soggy conditions between showers (rain showers that is) I got to get out a little while today. I headed to a nearby park that I like to hunt immediately after work today. It looks as though they had a soccer tournament or something like it this past weekend, there were still "tents" up besides some of the fields and some concession trailers still parked nearby as well. Cool !
The skies were still heavily laden with rain that threatened to fall at any moment, but I charged ahead anyway. No thunder, no lightning, and no flash flooding. I had to keep telling myself to slow down. Of course I had to slow down every time I had a target, and I had LOTS and LOTS of targets this afternoon. Would you believe One Hundred and Twelve pennies? Oh I found other coins too, and other metal objects.. pull tabs, wire, scraps of metal, grommets, washers.. you know.. STUFF.. <shrug>
I found only one Canadian cent this time out, and one Stadium token... always fun to find.

I found a couple of pins.. or the remains of them anyway. One was the head of a horse! A golden eyed horse! Ok, so the eye is probably NOT actually gold, but it's pretty neat, it looks as though it had some sort of pull or stem attached to it that made the eye "wink" or "blink".. I kind of wish I'd found it intact. Oh well. The other pin was of a sea turtle.. someones souvenir from a trip to Hawaii no doubt. Neat!

It's always neat to find things like the pins, but what was suprising today was finding a lock. Oh ok, it wasn't the lock, it was the keys! I've found keys before of course, house keys, car keys, shed keys, padlock keys, all kinds of keys.. but I found more today than I've ever found on one outing before. SIX (6) keys! Today's "DATE" will be remembered by me anyway as a "KEY DATE" <grin> Sorry to all you "serious" coin collectors out there, I couldn't resist that little pun. <poking tongue in cheek>

Coins, Keys, STUFF!

Coins coins coins.. lots of coins.. I've found more on shorter hunts, and less on longer hunts, but I'll happily add what I found today to my vacation fund... and Vacation is NEXT WEEK!!!! YEEEEHAAAAWWWW~

It didn't seem like it was too long into my hunt this afternoon that the park started filling up with cars and the spectators and soccer players they were carrying. It didn't seem like too long, but it was actually about two and a half hours according to my watch. WOW! Time flies! And wouldn't you know it! I'm getting crowded out and heading for home, and the sun comes out! <rolling eyes> Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. I had a good day so I'm not complaining. Besides I found some pretty things waiting for me when I got home Sunshine, flowers..

... even weeds...

... my four legged child.. though she looked just a bit reproachfull as if I'd forgotten to give her a treat or something..

And last, but not least, my darling wife.. all giddy with excitement about our impending vacation, and today's addition to that fund of which she will soon be spending with gleeful abandon! <grin>

Here's hoping that you all get to get out and detect a little yourselves.. soon. And as always..

~Happy Hunting~

Frodov

CAgem · May 14, 2009

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Always a pleasure to read one of your posts. Have a great vacation. :icon_sunny:

Frodov · May 14, 2009

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CAgem said:
Always a pleasure to read one of your posts. Have a great vacation.

After going back today and reading my post I thought it sounded rather dry.. unlike the digging conditions. <grin> I guess I was tired when I wrote it so it's not as entertaining or silly or any other of the descriptions that might fit my usual writing efforts. I appologize if I dissappointed anyone. Perhaps I can be more colorful next week.

~Happy Hunting~

Frodov

allen · May 14, 2009

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Your stories always amuse me Frodov !!!
good job on collecting all of that clad...

ldablo · May 14, 2009

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i think your feline is just upset 'cause you never seem to dig up any cans of little whiskas.

LD

Happy Harry · May 14, 2009

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Frodov,
I look for your posts and have not been disappointed ever with their content. Others (myself) included should be so entertaining. You make me feel like I am there to share your experiences as a tot Lot/soccor field hunter I have the same results and experiences. Keep It going! and Happy Hunting!!! HHHH

Dirty WhiteBoy · May 14, 2009

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Neat stuff Frodov! I enjoyed seeing your post! I like the horsepin..Very unusual! Have a great time when you go on vacation! :thumbsup:

searcher221 · May 14, 2009

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those are some great finds keep it up

Frodov · May 14, 2009

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Dirty WhiteBoy said:
Neat stuff Frodov! I enjoyed seeing your post! I like the horsepin..Very unusual! Have a great time when you go on vacation!

I've been looking on the internet for that pin to see exactly what it's supposed to look like, I'm certain there's a part or pieces missing from the one I found. As for vacation.. *sigh* still one more work day this week to get through, but in my mind I'm already on the beach.. one moment I'm in a lounge chair with a nice tall cold drink.. the next I'm happily on my hands and knees digging in the sand where I've just got a big hit on my detector! WOOHOO! <laughing> Actually, the hotel my wife and I like to stay at in North Myrtle Beach doesn't have a very busy beach. Out of the past couple of times we've gone there I've not found much at all with my detector. Granted, there are some guys that detect that beach on a daily basis too, and they get out there far earlier than I have so far.. <laughing> Also, my detector is ok on dry land and in the dry sand, but it's not well suited for the wet sand and surf where all or most of the good stuff is hiding. *sigh* So close, yet so far away. I really don't get to the beach often enough to warant spending that kind of money for a good detector for the surf, like some of these guys, and gals, on here. Envious? Yeah, a little maybe.. but I still have fun kicking the dry sand around, after all, I'm ON VACATION. <smile> Or.. will be, as of 3:00PM Friday afternoon anyway!

Wish me luck! Oh.. and if anyone knows of any good parks NEAR North Myrtle Beach (NMB city parks are off limits to metal detectors.. dangit! better to know it and not get busted though.) I'd be grateful for the tip or tips! Thanks everyone!

and.. as always..

~Happy Hunting~

Frodov

Carson Coin Master · May 16, 2009

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sweet finds!

Discrimination Dave · May 16, 2009

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FRODO!! >:(

April Fools Day is over!

You got me,
(nice "keys")

hikeinmts · May 16, 2009

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OK!!!!! KEY DATE!!!!! I got pulled into one more.....expectations, you know. :'(

BUT, I like your posts too much to stop reading them. Sooooooooooooo, I'll just have to live with your sense of humor. :tard:

Seriously, sounds like you had a good day. I was going to go out today, but some of your weather must have swung over S. Korea, because IT HAS BEEN
RAINING SINCE LAST NIGHT.....AND IT IS NOW 7:35 p.m. , Saturday night.......RAINED ALL DAY.....so, no hunting today.
Where you heading to for your vacation, if I many ask? Wherever it is, here's wishing you some great down-time, and some great THing time. (I get one
week, middle of August - HOT HOT HOT, SNAKES, SNAKES, SNAKES - so, don't do too much hunting on the vacation. Think this year, though, me and the
wife will head for a beach somewheres in S. Korea, and do some night hunting.....see if I can find a little gold and silver and pay for my new metal detector......
she doesn't know I'm getting yet.
Have fun......post your finds......O H !!!! No more "key dates," ok? :thumbsup:

John (Ma) · May 16, 2009

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Looks like some great finds there

STH69 · May 17, 2009

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Nice diggs

Frodov · May 18, 2009

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hikeinmts said:
OK!!!!! KEY DATE!!!!! I got pulled into one more.....expectations, you know.
BUT, I like your posts too much to stop reading them. Sooooooooooooo, I'll just have to live with your sense of humor.
Seriously, sounds like you had a good day. I was going to go out today, but some of your weather must have swung over S. Korea, because IT HAS BEEN
RAINING SINCE LAST NIGHT.....AND IT IS NOW 7:35 p.m. , Saturday night.......RAINED ALL DAY.....so, no hunting today.
Where you heading to for your vacation, if I many ask? Wherever it is, here's wishing you some great down-time, and some great THing time. (I get one
week, middle of August - HOT HOT HOT, SNAKES, SNAKES, SNAKES - so, don't do too much hunting on the vacation. Think this year, though, me and the
wife will head for a beach somewheres in S. Korea, and do some night hunting.....see if I can find a little gold and silver and pay for my new metal detector......
she doesn't know I'm getting yet.
Have fun......post your finds......O H !!!! No more "key dates," ok?

<Grin> FIrst of all, let me appologize for the misleading title to this last post. I knew when I first started typing that there were bound to be some diehard Numismatists that were going to be taken aback or even downright disturbed when they found out that my "Key Date" was a "Date that found lots of keys on" rather than a rare or missing coin or coins from someone's collection. <laughing> Just goes to show you that some people just take life too seriously sometimes.
S.Korea huh? WOW! I assume you are stationed over there with the military..? If so, what branch, and for how long? I work with some guys that were over there in the 70's and 80's with the U.S.Army and one with the U.S.Marines. From the stories they tell, it was both the time of their lives and the worst time of their lives depending on what story they happen to be relating at the time. Of course, they were single at the times they were over there, sounds to me like you are NOT. <grin> Is your wife over there with you? Or is she just coming over for vacation?
Were did this humble detectorist go for vacation? Living in the heartland of the U.S. or at least in the heart of the BlueGrass state (Kentucky) my options were far too many to actually do everything we wanted to do, so we fell back on the tried and true... we packed up and drove cross country to the Atlantic coast of Myrtle Beach South Carolina. North Myrtle Beach actually. My wife came here (We are there even as I type this in) as a teen ager and fell in love with the place. Until we'd married, I'd never been here to be honest, but we've been here once or twice a year now for the past four or five years. Oh we've been married longer than that, but before then we stayed closer to home, like in Kentucky or just a bit farther south in Tennessee, where we were married in Gatlinburg.
When we left Lexington (KY) today, the weather was clear and sunny.. well.. ok, the sun was coming up on a day that would be clear and sunny. And when we got here to Myrtle Beach, it was overcast and COLD! IT's been raining here for days we were told, fortunately it's not supposed to rain, or much, the next few days.. but still unseasonably cooler (cold) and cloudy and overcast. Great! We can lay out on the beach and get windburn on our goosebumps.. won't have to wory about sunburn. <rolling eyes>
You'll have to check out my post I'm about to make here in TOday's FInds... from my first venture out detecting while we're on vacation.
Good luck with your detecting at the beach.. in South Korea.. that is, if you get that new detector. <smile> SURPRISE HONEY! <grin> as always..

~Happy Hunting~

Frodov