Marshmallow world in the winter

Things are a little frozen here so I will "start digging" as soon as we thaw out! Happy New Year!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. This year has been a tough one and lets hope 2010 is going to be a year of change, change for the better.

Montana

Looks like I will "Start Digging" in Montana, my new home.

Back!

Its been a crazy summer here so I haven't been able to do as much metal detecting I would have liked. With a graduation, major surgery and getting the kid off to college behind me, I finally got out for two short hunts to get back in the swing of things.

Nothing spectacular to report, but a 1942 war nickle was a nice surprise! It was in decent shape too.























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Start Digging!~

Leap day finds

I returned to the park I hit yesterday as the day was warm and very spring-like weather. I hit the area around the basketball courts again and seemed to find zinc pennies every foot or so. I found six dimes too but mainly pennies. A couple of the corroded pennies were VDI ing at bottle cap numbers because of the dissolving action on the penny.

Heres a few pictures of the park:













This is the basketball court looking west.














Swings in woodchips and the baseball fields behind it.













I found most of the coins in a 2 foot band around the courts, seemed like I
dug a penny every foot or so...now if they were just quarters!


Start Digging !

End of Feburary Hunt

Did a hunt at a new park that I had never been to before. It is a large 40 acre park with 22 acres developed and rest forest. I only spent a short hour there scouting out the areas and it looks like a very promising spot. There are basketball courts, ballfields and a concession stand along with the usual wood chip play areas. I ended up with 73 cents and a lost costume jewelry bauble. I also added the Sac dollar I found earlier this week at a different park. I also gave my new pin pointer a good test and it passed with flying colors. All in all a pretty good hunt on a sunny afternoon.

First Sac Dollar Coin

I finally got out for a quick 45 minute hunt today at my local park. There was a spring like feel in the air and the park was pretty empty except for a three year old and his grandma on the tot swings. I had the MXT out not more then five minutes when a got a solid quarter hit VDI at 82. It wasn't a quarter that was laying on the wood chips, it was my first Sacagawea Dollar coin.

The Sacagawea dollar coin issued by the United States Mint depicts Sacagawea and her son, Jean Baptiste. The face on the coin was modeled on a modern Shoshone woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton; no contemporary image of Sacagawea exists.

Sunday winter hunt

Today was sunny and beautiful near 50 degrees so I headed out to the middle school in the neighborhood. I spent about an hour there and found nothing to jump up and down about, some clad and the usual suspects..(my nail and pull tab buddies that follow me around when i hunt.) It was great to get outside on such a nice day. By the way, I have no idea what the "Quickie Manufacturing Corporation" makes...*

Tina

UPDATE: In 1950, Peter Vosbikian, Sr. invented the now-world famous Quickie Automatic Sponge Mop. The very first mop of its kind, it eliminated the mess and stress of hand wringing and bending – floor cleaning could be done Automatically. Its patented design and breakthrough mechanics were revolutionary and greatly appreciated by the marketplace. It was so successful that the Quickie Automatic Sponge Mop launched a whole new company: Quickie Manufacturing Corporation.

Happy New Year!

I told myself that one of my New Years resolutions would be to get out and metal detect more often, weather permitting. I did get out for about 30 minutes today in between rain storms. I hit a middle school that my son used to go to. It looks like a promising site with about 3 baseball fields and a big track with a football field. I hunted near the first ball field and picked up a little clad. I thought I had a nice ring for a second with a solid VDI of 45 but it winded up being a screw top. Dang!

Anyhow the school does look like a promising site to hunt and I will be returning once we get some dry weather.

Start Digging in 08!

Merry Christmas!

Have a safe and warm Holiday and a Happy New Years!