Quick hunt around the rain

[twistidd]

Damn it if I can't ever get to detect thirty minutes without the rain interrupting!! After sitting outside for nine hours tending to a yard sale yesterday, I really wasn't looking forward to sitting out another eight or nine today. Forecast looked like rain, so we canceled today's gig. I packed up my stuff and headed out, hoping it wasn't coming as fast as it looked like it was on the radar. I decided to try to grid out a small grassy area at a spot I had been to before with decent success. I pulled a '44 wheatie right away, then some clad, then the '06 IH. Then, some more clad, and then I hear the low rumble of thunder in the distance and note that the sky is getting darker by the minute. I made it to the car just in time, as the rain came pouring down amidst lightening and more thunder. Later, after it cleared, I went back to continue the hunt but now the ground was muddy and saturated with puddles. I left and figured my best bet was to hit a couple tot lots. Only got to hit one before I got a call from my sister who confirmed the yard sale was resuming. Booooo. I got lucky and scored a '62 Rosey from near the swings. I believe this is my first recently-dropped silver coin.

By the way, I spent the whopping $20 I made from selling some of my junk on an authentic Fire Alarm Box in fine working order. I had always wanted one of these but could never justify spending over two hundred dollars for one. I found one for under $20 at an adjacent yard sale! I don't have a picture of mine yet, but I'll post a pic of an exact copy of mine from the net, plus some info on these in case some of you don't know what they were. I love stuff like this!

Hope to post again soon,

Joe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_alarm_box

 

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[Lowbatts]

Way to go Joe!

Those old alarm boxes do rock! But you failed the audition for American Pickers. You should have offered several hundred more dollars!

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

With the weather chasing you, get the goodies quick.

 

[kimsdad]

I don't know how you do it Joe. Quick hunts with nice results!

Great finds!!!

 

[litefire56]

Where there's one IH, there has got to be more.. nice silver btw...

I remember those alarm boxes well. Just about everyone I knew growing up pulled one at one time or another. Not me though...too chicken or too smart.
Did you get a key with it?

 

[Pocket Spill]

Good to see you are out back in the field. Nice finds!

 

[watercolor]

What a cool Fire Box!! And for only $20 to boot. . . awesome!

Hunting those smaller patches are always rewarding when you
start finding IH's & silver Nice!