Found a toy gun & dead at 40

It is weird having spare time after such a long stretch of being busy with selling the house.

It was Sunday afternoon and we were both sitting around on the edge of boredom when we decided to detect a nearby public school. We tried to scan this school last year but were scared off by teenagers. Not that we're generally scared of by teenagers. I just don't like answering questions and stopping for idol chit-chat.

We started detecting in the swing set pit. But found very little. We continued around the back of the school to the soccer field. Starting between the goal posts and walked center to center across the field.

Mary wanted to know why I preferred digging over detecting. As the big fluffy clouds soared by I knew the reason. Too many hours locked in an office and when I do get out I'm too busy watching traffic while I drive to enjoy nature around me. I love being outdoors and having the time to appreciate it.

Mary got a hit that was dead at 40 on the VDI scale. Normally metal jumps around through different numbers depending on its alloy. This was 40 and stayed at 40. We dug to reveal a brass scalloped shaped earring. Between the soccer field and the old baseball diamond is a shallow ditch. As we entered into this swale that our luck began to change. We pulled out a black metal cap gun missing it's barrel. Then we started finding a bunch of scattered coins including a 2-pence coin from England.

It was getting hot and we were starting to get burned so we returned to the sandpits and a big oak tree. There we found a metal buckle and a yellow dinky car deciding to call it a day after finding $1.04