The Black Donnellys

Mary and I wanted a weekend away so we took a trip to Lucan, Ontario to visit the Donnelly Homestead and take the historical tour.

http://www.donnellys.com/

We arrived in town early so decided to tour the cemetery where the family is buried. In the gateway we found a penny and a nickel laying on top.
Six.
Mary's favorite number.

We made our way to the tombstone to find it decorated with melted candles, flowers and coins. It is said that if you place a coin on the the Donnelly tombstone and make a wish the spirits of the family will grant it for you. Six cents - easy come/easy go. I gave Mary the nickel and I used the penny and we both quietly made a wishes.
After we finished looking around we exited the cemetery to find another penny and nickel in the gateway of the cemetery.

We had more time to kill so we decided to explore the countryside and do some Geocaching. As we walked through the forest Mary started talking about the wishes and whenthey might come true.
"Crap!" I said, "I think mine already did"
"What did you wish for?" She asked.
I explained that with the wedding coming up, we have been spending a lot of money. I am hoping that the wedding gifts will offset the costs.
I wished that the money we give away we will receive back. All that is what happened with the 6 cents I gave away I received back again.

Mary wished to win the lottery.
We are still waiting for that to happen.

Another visit the the Quarry of Treasure

I don't know if people remember our visit to the swimming hole up north last year...

http://robot4metal.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-fifth-day-of-x-mas-my-true-love.html

...where we found 5 rings, almost $6 in coins and 2 terrible sunburns.

Having such a good time detecting the quarry last year we have been looking forward to doing it again. We scheduled to have Monday and Tuesday off from work to get away. Monday we went to Canada’s Wonderland to ride the Behemoth. So we decided to use Tuesday to go detecting.

We got to park before 11am and we slipped into the water with our detector. The park supervisor was very interested in what we were doing. After collected a bunch of nails and bottle cap I left the water to put them in the garbage. He walk out to greet me to see what I had and took they items from my ‘junk pocket’ to throw them away for me. We had to be careful to pocket our treasures underwater and speak in code so no one could tell how we were doing.

One of the first things we found was a sterling silver belly button chain with glass stones. As we waded further out we discover a big costume jewellery ring with a large yellow glass stone. Mary refused to let me hold onto it fearing I would lose it or the park supervisor would frisk me next time I left the water. Further down the shore we pulled up 2 matching hoop ear rings. The day became cloudy and the wind was quite cool. I left the water to warm up a bit in some dry clothes and I grabbed the beach detector.

As the rain clouds descended after 3pm we left the park to grab some lunch and count the coins we had found. They totalled $9.12!!!!

No word on the sunburns yet. Though we both got a lot of sun I think we are going to be o.k.

Another visit to the Gold Mine

Woke up late on Sunday and we weren't too sure what we were going to do with the day. I suggested that we call Steve and Nadine after breakfast to see if they wanted to metal detect somewhere. As we were starting breakfast the phone rang and it was them wanting to get together with us.

We went over to their house to see their new driveway and to detect their yard once again. It was an overcast day with big storm clouds moving in and out bring intermittent rain showers. We wrapped the electronics of the detectors in plastic bags and scanned through the light rain hiding indoors for the heavier showers. We turned up the sensitivity of the detector as well and the discrimination to try to find deeper coins and we didn’t do too bad:

Found 2 musket balls
Mechano Dinky Toys Made in England button.
6 modern pennies
Twoonie and a loonie
1920 penny
1913 dime
1909 penny
Ended the day with a fabulous corn roast with sausage on a bun.