Had a real nice time visiting my sister and her husband over the weekend. We ended up eating too much, playing tennis with my boys, walking every day and watching a couple of movies at night.
On Saturday we ended up visiting a local castle. Crazy... A castle in Ohio. Very interesting story behind it and the fellow who built it. I've attached a link for anyone interested.
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfroche.htm
I also had time to metal detect for a couple of hours on Friday. Found a huge park, with many ball and soccer fields, very close to them and decided to give it a try.
Searching on the net I couldn't find any rules against detecting there. My youngest boy and I drove over there and when we arrived there were a bunch of grounds people working in the park. I stopped one of them and asked if it was O.K. to detect and he gave me the thumbs up. First thing we notice was a volleyball court so we hit that first. While detecting another grounds person came up to us. I was thinking "oh, oh here we go, we are getting the boot", but instead this fellow informs us that they just got through turning over all the dirt on the ball fields and we might want to try some of them. So that's what we did.
We only had a couple of hours so we searched a few ball fields and an outdoor concert area. We found a whopping $1.02 in clad (oldest one dating back to 1967). I wish we had time to do the outfields because I think we might have found better stuff out there. The only bad part was that the ground was a sticky clay so it was very messy to dig.