I mowed the lawn for the last time yesterday, put the mower away for the year. The one thing about living in an elevated, very heavy tree'd, home is that the lawn doesn't need mowing often. So it was a mulching of grass, pine needles, leaves. Now it has a organized look to the mess.
The pine trees are doing the yearly carpet of needles, takes a good many hours getting it off the lawn.
Bought a large backpack leaf blower a few years ago, one of the best investments I did. Raking is ok-but there are limits to time and energy spent doing the task yearly.
At least you got out for awhile Dave. The finds are just a bonus to detecting sometimes.Unfortunately, the rains moved in around 9:30am as I expected they would.
I did have enough time to investigate a 50' x 50' site the arkies dug years ago in a sheltered depression in the middle of a field, which would've originally been a forest.
I feel this was likely an early Native American settlement, as it was located within 500 yards of what would've been a major river thousands of years ago.
The iron signals were few except for the occasional square nail and piece of plow hardware.
I also got back to a recently disked site down the road and made some interesting eyeball finds, but not much in the way of non-ferrous finds.
Good morning Bill and Bart.
