What an amazing day!!!

SaintSea · Dec 30, 2006

My best day so far... and I've been "practicing" now for almost 2 years!
I took advantage of our beautiful Florida weather and drove 90 minutes to Daytona Beach. I just got my Excalibur 800 back from Minelab and they did a terrific job of returning her to A-1 shape and never charged me a dime; not even for shipping (and it was out of warranty, too!) It had been about six weeks since my last trip to the beach and I was jonesing for a hunt. After the first hour I only had 3 new pennies and I was feeling a bit grumpy. I decided to take advantage of the free winter beach parking and moved my car about 1/2 mile north of where I'd started out. I hadn't been walking long when my detector sounded off; I knew it had to be something "unusual" because I'd never heard that sound before. I remembered my buddy Morris telling me that the Excaliburs "growl" when they find gold - and boy, was he right! I pulled a beautiful 10K gold/diamond/amethyst high school ring from the lane, about 6" down! My first High School Ring! Wow! I was so excited that I did what I probably shouldn't have done; I told several people of my good fortune - you know - the folks who always ask: "Find anything good

". I just couldn't resist! I was a bit less grumpy after this find and when I heard "the growl" a second time I couldn't believe it; this time a 14k gold and diamond (?) ring was shining up at me! Unbelievable! These were my first "good" rings and two in one afternoon?!? Not long after I figured that my two scores and the 95 cents in change that I'd found would suffice and I headed home. My car was filthy and full of sand - and when I took her to the car wash I found a really nice sterling bracelet next to the vacuum! Jeez - what a day!!! I figured my luck might not have ended, so I went out and bought lottery tickets for tonite's $20 million drawing. I'll keep you posted!
(P.S. The high school ring has only Stacie's first name on it - and just HHS '05 on the side; might not be able to return this one to its owner...darn! It's a whole lot more beautiful than the clunky green stoned one I had from back in 1974!)
Ruth

jeff of pa · Dec 31, 2006

Very Nice SS

Congrats !

diggummup · Dec 31, 2006

Nice finds Ruth.Hope you win the lottery too.Did ya happen to get one of those $20.00 raffle tickets for tommorrow's drawing?

wolfmanjoe3 · Dec 31, 2006

Nice beach finds. I can't wait for my next beach vacation to try out my new MD.

HH
Joe

SaintSea · Dec 31, 2006

Thanks everyone for your replies:
diggummup: Nope; I just put my $5 into lotto tickets of last night's drawing - and unfortunately, my luck didn't continue into that realm. Next time!
lejeuene & monty: Not sure how to begin to go about finding the ring's owner - not enough info. to go on...
muddyknees: I've always had the same avatar; I'll bet you're thinking of Gypsy's; she's got the one I've always coveted... it rocks!
Happy Hunting, All - and Happy New Year!
Ruth

Gypsy Heart · Dec 31, 2006

Wow Those are some fantastic finds! Glad to see you are out there Swinging it! Happy New Year and hope your 2007 is the Best!

Nana40 · Dec 31, 2006

RUTH!!! 8)

What some beautiful finds!! MANY Congrats!!!!!!

Nana

dave-enc · Dec 31, 2006

terrific finds saintsea wtg
hh
dave+bobbie

Mainedigger · Dec 31, 2006

Ruth...Congrats on a great day!!! Sorry your lotto numbers failed you..

That high school ring is awesome, very unique and not the run of the mill generic ring. If you want to find the owner, you may want to try this site...I just found this posted by a member in another forum and just recently posted a ring I found on it, so can;t really say yet how good it works, but looks like a great site....http://www.classringfinder.com/