Frodov
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Well I got to get out and do a little detecting today.. I went out earlier in the week (Thursday) but my head and my heart just wasn't in it, what I did find that day stayed in my finds pouch till this afternoon. I have finds from both Thursday and from today in there.. so it's a combined "report" if you will.
As some of you may know, my wife Val was in the hospital earlier this week. She's home now, came home Friday afternoon. While she's still not back to 100%, she's feeling and doing much better now. It's always better to be home to recover when you can. Anyway, as I was saying, I got to get out and detect for about an hour today. While I didn't find much in the way of coin, maybe a little over a dollar in clad, I did find a couple of pieces of silver!
Not Silver coin mind you, I found a rather HEAVY earring Silver (but no stamp) with a copper or bronze wire in the center.. looks reminiscent of heavy silver Navajo Indian made jewelery.. only there's no turquoise. The second piece of silver was a small charm.. looks like a crown or a tiara.. it *IS* stamped Sterling on the inside.
The Key and remote seen in the pictures was found Thursday afternoon in a different park. The young man that lost them saw me sitting at a picnic table with my metal detector and asked me if I'd found a key by any chance. At that time I had to tell him 'no', but as I was leaving the park later, I *DiD* find them.. but he had already left and I had no way of contacting him. *sigh* Oh well.. just another key in my growing collection of lost, now found, keys. It's the same remote as the one for my wife's car.. guess I could salvage the battery. <shrug>
Along with the key and remote, some other finds that I remember from Thursday were, pull tabs of course.. some clad.. about $2.00 or so worth. I found some scrap metal... no cartridges this time though.
Today's finds include, more clad, a button, the remains of a pair of glasses, a big "blade" from a metal fence post I think.. some sort of electrical cover or fixture. It rang up as a 50 cent piece.. I got all excited for nothing.. <grin>
Not far from the cover plate/fixture/whatever, I found an old fuse.. at first I thought it was another spent cartridge.. the one end kind of looks like a cartridge anyway. I found what looks to me like the top of an old salt shaker.. a bit worse for wear though. There were bottle caps, a battery (CITIPOWER!!!) <rolling eyes> I found a Droid right out of Star Wars in the tot lot <grin>. I found a piece of copper tubing, a button, a plastic "gem star" One side is silvered the other is green <shrug>.
The last thing I found.. was hunger pangs! Besides the cold wind blowing around me for my short hunt this afternoon, the ambient temperature was steadily going down, down, down.. as I write this it is now about 29 degrees outside. It was almost 40 degrees (F) when I began my hunt today. Got to love that cool crisp arctic air that our good neighbors to the north in Canada send our way this time of year... brrrr... at least the ground wasn't frozen.. yet.
Well here is the compilation of Thursday's and Today's finds... It was nice to be able to get out and relax a bit, and finding treasures is always nice too.
Oh.. and Poor Fluffy? Well it's the name on a pet's Tag I found Thursday afternoon.. It had a local number engraved on it, but I didn't bother to call. I found the tag a good two inches down in the soil... and no, it wasn't attached to a collar or a corpse. <laughing> I'm thinking Fluffy somehow or another got her collar off or the tag slipped the ring or something. For all I know Fluffy is still alive and well.. with a new tag and collar somewhere near the park. If she's not.. well.. no sense in putting salt in the wound so to speak. I'll just add Fluffy's tag to my growing collection of other pet id tags and vaccination tags. I'm gonna need a bigger "treasure chest" before too long. <grin>
Happy Hunting Everyone !!
Frodov
As some of you may know, my wife Val was in the hospital earlier this week. She's home now, came home Friday afternoon. While she's still not back to 100%, she's feeling and doing much better now. It's always better to be home to recover when you can. Anyway, as I was saying, I got to get out and detect for about an hour today. While I didn't find much in the way of coin, maybe a little over a dollar in clad, I did find a couple of pieces of silver!
Not Silver coin mind you, I found a rather HEAVY earring Silver (but no stamp) with a copper or bronze wire in the center.. looks reminiscent of heavy silver Navajo Indian made jewelery.. only there's no turquoise. The second piece of silver was a small charm.. looks like a crown or a tiara.. it *IS* stamped Sterling on the inside.
The Key and remote seen in the pictures was found Thursday afternoon in a different park. The young man that lost them saw me sitting at a picnic table with my metal detector and asked me if I'd found a key by any chance. At that time I had to tell him 'no', but as I was leaving the park later, I *DiD* find them.. but he had already left and I had no way of contacting him. *sigh* Oh well.. just another key in my growing collection of lost, now found, keys. It's the same remote as the one for my wife's car.. guess I could salvage the battery. <shrug>
Along with the key and remote, some other finds that I remember from Thursday were, pull tabs of course.. some clad.. about $2.00 or so worth. I found some scrap metal... no cartridges this time though.
Today's finds include, more clad, a button, the remains of a pair of glasses, a big "blade" from a metal fence post I think.. some sort of electrical cover or fixture. It rang up as a 50 cent piece.. I got all excited for nothing.. <grin>
Not far from the cover plate/fixture/whatever, I found an old fuse.. at first I thought it was another spent cartridge.. the one end kind of looks like a cartridge anyway. I found what looks to me like the top of an old salt shaker.. a bit worse for wear though. There were bottle caps, a battery (CITIPOWER!!!) <rolling eyes> I found a Droid right out of Star Wars in the tot lot <grin>. I found a piece of copper tubing, a button, a plastic "gem star" One side is silvered the other is green <shrug>.
The last thing I found.. was hunger pangs! Besides the cold wind blowing around me for my short hunt this afternoon, the ambient temperature was steadily going down, down, down.. as I write this it is now about 29 degrees outside. It was almost 40 degrees (F) when I began my hunt today. Got to love that cool crisp arctic air that our good neighbors to the north in Canada send our way this time of year... brrrr... at least the ground wasn't frozen.. yet.
Well here is the compilation of Thursday's and Today's finds... It was nice to be able to get out and relax a bit, and finding treasures is always nice too.
Oh.. and Poor Fluffy? Well it's the name on a pet's Tag I found Thursday afternoon.. It had a local number engraved on it, but I didn't bother to call. I found the tag a good two inches down in the soil... and no, it wasn't attached to a collar or a corpse. <laughing> I'm thinking Fluffy somehow or another got her collar off or the tag slipped the ring or something. For all I know Fluffy is still alive and well.. with a new tag and collar somewhere near the park. If she's not.. well.. no sense in putting salt in the wound so to speak. I'll just add Fluffy's tag to my growing collection of other pet id tags and vaccination tags. I'm gonna need a bigger "treasure chest" before too long. <grin>
Happy Hunting Everyone !!
Frodov
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Keep up the passion, my friend. 
