Yesterday I went back to retrieve my lost probe. I had left it behind the day before, in the grass of the tennis park where I had been detecting. It is a wicked long and pointy looking thing - capable of scaring any high-brow tennis mom into a fit. I shudder to think what the average teenage yahoo would do with it. I take a fairly dim view of most teens, as it is. So, without hesitation, back I went.
And this time, luck was on my side. You know how, when searching for something, you trace your steps in reverse? You go back to the last place you saw a lost item and work out from there? Well, that was how I did it... and it was oh so simple.
With not so much as even a good look around, I found it lying just where I had left it.
Interestingly, there were the remnants of a bottle rocket shoot-out on the very spot where it lay. I suppose some local kids had gotten ahold of several dozen rockets and headed to the park to light them off. Little did they know, that there in the dark, they were tramping all over a potentially dangerous weapon. Lucky ME!
I would have hated that they had found it. Not only could they have gotten up to all sorts of mischief with it, being teens, but imagine if the police had been called. Who knows what they might have done....
Can't you just hear the police chief shouting, "Boys, lay down a net. Canvas the neighborhood! Put up roadblocks! I want the person responsible for this weapon apprehended!"
The park is in an upper crusty neighborhood. Such a reaction is quite likely in that area. All over a detecting turf probe.
With the probe safely back in my hands, I swung by a local school to heat up the new Golden. I only had a little time and ended up spending about an hour there. Here is the pouch dump:
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That black oblong thing in the back is a magnet, or a polished magentized rock or something like that. I don't know what it's purpose is, but it's cool.
And here are the gleanings:
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That crucifix hit pretty hard and was in two pieces. Found it right under the swings in the sand. Lots of quarters, too!
And this time, luck was on my side. You know how, when searching for something, you trace your steps in reverse? You go back to the last place you saw a lost item and work out from there? Well, that was how I did it... and it was oh so simple.
With not so much as even a good look around, I found it lying just where I had left it.
Interestingly, there were the remnants of a bottle rocket shoot-out on the very spot where it lay. I suppose some local kids had gotten ahold of several dozen rockets and headed to the park to light them off. Little did they know, that there in the dark, they were tramping all over a potentially dangerous weapon. Lucky ME!
I would have hated that they had found it. Not only could they have gotten up to all sorts of mischief with it, being teens, but imagine if the police had been called. Who knows what they might have done....
Can't you just hear the police chief shouting, "Boys, lay down a net. Canvas the neighborhood! Put up roadblocks! I want the person responsible for this weapon apprehended!"
The park is in an upper crusty neighborhood. Such a reaction is quite likely in that area. All over a detecting turf probe.
With the probe safely back in my hands, I swung by a local school to heat up the new Golden. I only had a little time and ended up spending about an hour there. Here is the pouch dump:
[attachment 112153 DSCF0045.JPG]
That black oblong thing in the back is a magnet, or a polished magentized rock or something like that. I don't know what it's purpose is, but it's cool.
And here are the gleanings:
[attachment 112155 DSCF0046.JPG]
That crucifix hit pretty hard and was in two pieces. Found it right under the swings in the sand. Lots of quarters, too!
