YING YANG in the School Yard - 03-22-09

After a lazy day of doing nothing (bad us, as we were suppose to be cleaning) the phone rang after lunch as Steve wanted to go detecting when Nadine arrived home from work after 5:00pm. They came over to our house after 5pm and we headed out to a school yard. Bob and I had been there before and this was Steve & Nadine's first time.

Since it was later in the day and the sun was setting, it was getting really cold.

Steve & Nadine headed off to the playground equipment while Bob and I headed off to the baseball diamond where we had found a ring a year before. Junk Junk Junk all around - pop tabs, foil, everything but money. lol


Finally we scored a penny and then some dimes and a few more pennies. We finally found a Ying Yang charm. 36 cents in change was our total.


It was getting colder and dark. We looked up to see Steve alone. Where on earth was Nadine?


We headed over to Steve to find out poor Nadine was freezing and had gone to sit in their truck.

We compared our finds.


They had found Dinky Car Wheels, the end of a pencil, bret, paper clip, zipper pieces, a round piece of metal and 25 cents in change.

We ended our evening by picking up Subs at Subway and Coffee's at Tim Horton's and coming back to our house to hang out and watch TV.

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LOST by one Penny! 03-21-09

After a shopping trip in the morning to Ikea we had made plans to meet Steve & Nadine at Steve's parent's property to do some metal detecting. Steve's family had owned a whole bunch of property including the site we were on for many many generations.






This was the original house on the site which was built in the early 1800's


This is the same house which was demo'd in 2006 as the property was sold and new houses were being built.

We had tried metal detecing there last year when nothing was on the property. SEE HERE


Steve's parents live on another section of the property that wasn't sold so they gave us permission to detect.

We split up and Bob and I headed towards some trees in a section that an old road had been prior to a second house being built on the property. Basically, all we found was junk, junk and more junk. Junk mental, nails and old container lids, etc... They were all found 2 - 3 " down.

We met back up with Steve & Nadine for a break as Bob was getting hungry.

This is what Steve & Nadine had found up to this point. (Not including the sunglasses)

Yes, they had found one penny. We had not found any money.

We split up again and located some bullet casings, but Bob said they weren't old. We then started detecting around a bar and located a very rusted licence plate that we couldn't read the date to. We headed towards the largest tree on the property and again found a bunch of garbage including the remains of an old toy truck.

It had been 4 1/2 hours and we regrouped. They still had no found any more money and we hadn't. Wow, we lost by a penny!

No worries, we had a lot of fun trying to find treasures. Not sure if Bob and I did pass up anything good as we are still trying to figure out our MXT.

We got home and I asked Bob if we could detect our yard as we had been told a house on the property was originally built in the 1800's and burned down. We were shown by the previous owner where the stones that it was built on were in the ground. We started detecting around there and it was so junky sounding, lots of clicks and blips. I finally had a solid hit, we dug and came up with black burnt wood (from the fire?!) along with some nails and a 1959 penny, all in the 4" range.

Bob was getting cold so he unloaded the car and I went into the back yard. Again lots of blips and clicks, but finally found another solid hit. It produced a file of some sort? I detected for a few more minutes and came up with some other odds and ends.

By now I was feeling very chilled. I decided to go in and we had a snack and watched A HAUNTING which Steve & Nadine had kindly recorded for us.

Better luck next time for us!

Metal Detecting Day - 03-15-09

This morning it was decided that we would go detecting with Steve & Nadine. The phone call came around 8:30am to get up and meet them around 9:00am at a local Tim Hortons. We beat them there and discussed our plan of action. First, we decided to go and take some photo's of a local historical landmark that had caught fire on March 10th before they had a chance to tear it down.

We then decided where to go and hunt and the race was on. Who would find more, Steve & Nadine or myself and Bob?

The two teams split up and we started our search.

As Bob and I looked around we spotted holes that had been dug, plugs removed but not placed back into the holes. :o( Not a good sign, that means someone had been here before us. The plugs were frozen in place, so it had been in the previous days. What a disaster of divets. We hoped that if any local people came walking about we would not be blamed for the destruction because we are always very careful to try and cut our plugs as clean as possible and when we are done with the holes to place them back into the ground.

We began our search.

We came up with a lot of pennies approx. 3 inches down and a lot of surface pop tabs.

Steve & Nadine started their search.

Their total was $3.68 and also found bottle caps, pull tabs, a Mascarra Brush & bent fork along with a cool little cross charm.

Looking forward to our next hunt with them sometime!! :o)

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Detecting Day - 03-14-09

After a busy day of shopping we decided to come home and use the metal detector.

Our new house which we moved into back in September 2008 is suppose to have history which we are trying to find out about.
Last year we found an old button that was found out to be a 1930's Army Service Button. We thought maybe we could find something else.

We started detecting the back yard and found a lot of scrap metal and nails. We then found another button on the other side of our fence -- but it was very rusty. Not sure what it was.

A familiar voice was heard, it was our Real Estate agent Terry Cox coming by for a quick visit. After he left we headed back out to detect some more before it became dark.

Again we hit our back yard. Half way down the yard we got a really good signal and Bob started to dig.

and dig


and dig some more

Bob seemed to find something that was approx. 2 - 2.5 feet down and rusty, it almost had a round shape. It was decided he would keep digging to find all four sides, his shovel all of a sudden sunk down on one side super easy. He moved to another side and the earth below his shovel disappeared and a hole opened up and we heard water splashing. We froze. What the heck did we find?
Looking down into the hole and looking around the back yard we tried to figure out exactly what we had stumbled on. Beside our house is a well, at the back of our house is a cistern, so what could this possibly be at the back of the yard.... maybe an old Outhouse Hole? Another well? We didn't really want to find out at this point. We were sort of scared that the ground might crumble below us. It was decided that Bob would place some rocks large enough to cover the hole and then fill it back in with the earth he had dug up until we could find out what the heck it was.

We moved on to the back back of that yard, closer to the train tracks and moved onto a vacant lot next door. A old house use to sit there prior to us moving into our house. We were told by neighbours the history was an older couple had lived there at some point, the husband died, then the wife died, someone bought the property to rebuild on but couldn't afford to at that time and rented out the house. The house was rented out to some people who couldn't care a less about the house and they were evicted after the house went into disrepair. The house was condemmed and torn down. The property seems to be used by other's in the neighbourhood -- kids building tree houses, used as an extra parking area, etc... why not try it before it gets dug up and a new place is built. We worked our way into the back of it first and found a lot of junk, an old doorknob set, wires, nails, etc... we found toys scattered around the yard, mostly ruined by a lawnmower running over it. It was decided we would move towards where the house use to sit as there was a large tree nearby -- there had to be something there!! We could picture young children maybe climbing it, playing around it, etc... nothing was found. I moved to the right of it and received an overload signal. Bob looked down and noticed it looked to be a place where a clothesline might had been put up -- PERFECT!!! I started scanning and we came up with a quarter and some pennies. We even found a weight from a barbell. It was now getting dark so we decided to head back to the house.

Once inside we had a message on our answering machine from Cousin's Steve & Nadine asking if we wanted to meet them for coffee and discuss a detecting day. Sounded great to us!!

Stay tuned for the next entry for March 15, 2009 :o) FINGERS CROSSED we find something awesome!!!!





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Entry by Mary

It's Getting Warmer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhhhhhhhh, finally the snow has left and the warmer temperatures are approaching. WE HOPE!

Looking forward to adding new adventures this year!!!!

We're hoping that Steve & Nadine will let us help them to detect their yard again in hopes of finding more hidden 1800's / early 1900's coins.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!