Nadine's 8cent hole

saturday, april 12, 2008

Last week - when we left our fearless heroes, Bob & Mary, they were excited about
detecting the site of an old homestead where The Butler's Rangers and Native Americans use to stopped for the night.

But trouble was brewing!!!! The weather forecast for Friday to Monday was rain with the chance of snow. It looked like young Bob and Mary would never get to detect there before it was attacked by bulldozers and turned into a condominium. But the snow and rain never came.

Let us re-join our heroes as a desperate call is placed and a massive search party was formed...

Mary's mom, Pat, cousin Steve and Nadine met us at Uncle Junior and Aunt Barb's house.
Mary and I were first to arrive and went inside to visit.

We started off with 4 detectors but divided into two groups. Mom went with Mary and me using her underwater detector. Mary dug while we both scanned but we kept finding only square barn nails and beer caps.

Steve and Nadine had a cooler of beverages and went off detecting in their own direction. We lent them our orange golf tees so they could mark where they got hits. They soon uncovered a penny and I knew we had to find some clad in order to catch up.

We cut across the field to a large tree hoping it might be an old sitting area. We found an old lock
and soon after a new house key (never did find the new house). Meanwhile Steve and Nadine found another penny.

After about an hour Mom had to leave to go look after Dawson. Mary and I decide to go behind where the barn was to be to some flat grass. We got a loud hit and I started digging a big hole to go after it. I initially thought it was an old license plate but after much more digging pulled up and white metal bowl. We continued up the hill but didn't have any luck finding anything good.

Nadine and Steve went straight to where the old house used to sit and they found a sweet
spot. Nadine pulled up three more pennies and a nickel . As they dipped into their cooler grabbing more beverages I had the feeling that we were getting out-done. (Not that we were competing... but the score was 10-0 against us).

We decide the forget about the back-lot and detect over to where they were. We started to scan the other side of the lane way but we only found foil and garbage.
As they were scanning under some pine trees we started to scan the old driveway and started finding penny after penny totalling 13 cents from various spots. (10-13 for those keeping track (YAAA!!!)) Soon after, on the boulevard I found the front of a toy truck.

By this time Steve and Nadine we tied up digging a massive hole to uncover a metal ring attached to a 3ft x 3ft concrete slab. Steve went to his dad's shed to get 2 bigger
shovels to unearth the vault.

It was getting cold and dark as hunger set in so we headed back to the car. On the way we saw an orange golf tees in the ground. Mary gave it a quick scan and
it was good metal (not iron). I dug a little hole and we pulled a toonie!!!

Steve and Nadine eventually unearthed the vault after breaking one of his dad's shovels. It turned out to be a old septic tank with no treasures they wanted to take home with them.