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!