42 cent day with Wendy, Jeff & Ian

It's been a long time since we have "hung out" with Wendy, Jeff & Ian - things always seemed to get in the way, work, hobbies, being sick. We decided this weekend we would meet up for an hour or two of metal detecting. Jeff had a location for us to try out which was an old location in Welland.

After a quick breakfast, we made a phone call to Wendy as to where we were meeting up and would follow them to this "awesome" location. Unfortunately as we travelled in a convoy to where the place was, it was packed full of people, not a good idea to detect when there are that many people around, so Jeff suggested a park nearby. We were eager to hit the ground since we have only been out basically once detecting this year.

Jeff & Wendy both have their own detectors, Bob and Iwould use ours (one would detect and one would dig) and Ian was going to play baseball, practice his hitting and throwing.

We were off. Bob and I started finding a lot of garbage but the detector's numbers were telling us it was good hits. Lots of pop cans and pull tabs. We decided to head to the playground equipment. NOTHING but a juice box. Had someone beat us to the park this year and cleaned it out?

After we were done in the playground equipment Jeff told us he was in the lead, he had found a penny. LOL

We headed over to the area's where people would eat, bad move, more pop cans, bottle caps, and pull tabs. I suggested we head to an open area as I could picture families playing ball, frisbee, etc... Ian begged Wendy to go and play baseball with him for a bit. She offered me her detector in case I wanted to detect myself, but I was quite happy digging for Bob. I was impressed with my hole digging. I was making perfect plugs which popped out and went back into the ground nicely, hardly noticable. Jeff headed out into a wooded area.



FINALLY Bob and I found a dime! Bob was a happy camper.

In between the garbage finds, we were able to find some more change. At one point our hearts started to race as we were digging and a gold round shape appeared, unfortunately it was a gold coloured pull-tab. We started laughing together and Bob yelled to Jeff about what we found.

As time went on, Little Ian appeared and looked soooooooo sad. "What's wrong Ian" I asked. "I want to play baseball and no one will play with me." he replied. "What happened to your Mom" I questioned? "She doesn't want to play with me anymore" he mumbled. "Why's that?" I asked "Because I don't throw the ball back to her when she pitches to me" he answered. I started to laugh "Are you doing that on purprose?" I asked. "Yesss...." he trailed off. "I just want to play baseball, have someone pitch to me, have a backcatcher...." I laughed again "ohhhhhhh so you want an WHOLE baseball team" He stood there looking soooooooo sad. It broke Bob's heart. "Ohhh, I feel like I should play ball with him and not detect" I laughed. "Mary, do you mind detecting yourself?" Bob asked. LOL!!!!! With that, Bob handed me the detector and he dashed off with Ian to play ball for a bit.

As Bob and Ian were playing Ball (Ian stealing imaginary bases after hitting the ball) Wendy came over to where Jeff & I were and I think at that point we decided to stop detecting as they had to leave before 1pm to go see the Disney Movie OCEANS. We decided to go to Timmies for a break before they went home to have lunch.

JEFF'S FIND: Pennies! 12 cents - not sure if he included Wendy's penny in that or not.

OUR TOTAL FINDS: 42 cents

It was a great couple of hours!! Looking forward to seeing them again for another hunt!

And it was a GOOD Friday!

Well, here we are in 2010 and on a holiday GOOD FRIDAY - April 2 and our weather was unbelievable!!! We were having record temp's of over 20 degrees Celsius. We called up Cousin Steve & his wife Nadine to see if they would like to detect for the first time this year up at their house since the times we have been there, we have done VERY well finding older coins. We were curious if the frost might of pushed up some more goodies.

We arrived shortly after 4:30pm and we chatted a bit in the backyard. Nadine was looking at the ground and found 10 cents Canadian and 25 cents Canadian laying right in the dirt. I looked down and spotted 5 cents Canadian. "Let's get hunting" Nadine yelled. We grabbed our detectors and headed for the front yard which has done well for us in the past.

The first hour and a half basically only gave up junky metal. We then found a small Canada Button type item, it had a rainbow looking Maple Leaf on it. Other than that find, this wasn't promising hunt.

Nadine asked if we wanted some pizza for dinner so she had Sheri put in a phone call to the local pizza place as they were going to pick it up.

I was very determined to find something, so as we were going back and forth in the front yard, I decided to bee-line straight for the front door of the house and we got a nice solid hit which registered 65 on the metal detector. Bob started to dig down 3 inches and a nice round coin and as Bob started to clean it off, it revealed a nice Canadian 1918 One Cent.

Woo hoo!! Let's keep going I yelled to Bob. Steve was off making a nice bonfire for us to sit around.

I got another nice hit closeby to where we found the One Cent and it revealed a tiny round metal token that says Play Coin Chicken Feed One Henny Penny. Steve says he remembers something about owning a game when he was little called Henny Penny. LOL

"Keep going" I said and we found a small metal Yellow Stop sign.

We stopped to eat some pizza around the fire and I suggested we all try in front of the house again and they were all game so we did.

We didn't find anything and I skipped across the driveway to an area that I remember when we were young visiting my aunt & uncle (who actually use to live there) had a fire pit set up. It was starting to get dark so I had to make sure I dug only good signals. We found like 3 pieces of junk and my final signal revealed another coin type item. It was less then 1 inch down. Nadine took it inside to see if she could clean it up. The coin was very worn but displayed the words one one side UN SOU Montreal and the other side Agriculture Commerce Bas-Canada. After we departed for home, Bob did some research on this coin and it appears to be dated around 1837!!!! I think that is our oldest coin to date!!! We were thrilled!!!!

Saturday morning we were off visiting Bob's parents and doing errands, later in the afternoon I decided to take the detector into our own backyard, it had not produced anything in the past except for an old service button, everything else was junk. Somehow today I found a penny & nickle.

I've got the detecting bug, I want to go out again soon. lol


Here is a photo of All the Finds for the past two days. :o)