WARNING!!! Adult content.

[2ndoldman]

Watch your language when you reply.
PLEASE
Since this post covers four days of swinging the magic walking stick I will dispense with most of the before/ in-situ pictures.
This is an oops. I forgot to post it last time.
Nothing really special about it but it is nice to find one not totally destroyed by fertilizer. On Tuesday I hit a relatively new area for me.
Basically just a recon hunt to see if the site had any potential.
And this was the only score for the hour and a half that I spent there.
http://ppcliassoc.ca/index_history.htm Tuesday also produced a smiley faced key tag.
I wonder if the owner wants this back.

On Wednesday it was cold and windy and the ground was starting to freeze again.
I had just pulled this when Colin called to see what I was up to.
What followed after his arrival was just fun.
Another nonmagnetic 68.

[2ndoldman]

Thursday was colder and the open area was a no go zone.
So I hit the long grass and only made one decent save.
That is Queen Victoria's bun that you can see.
so 1901 or earlier British half penny is my guess.
It is 26 mm wide by only 1mm thick.
So totally warn.
And after soaking in Hydrogen Peroxide the only thing that remained was her lips. What a difference a day makes.
This was taken on Thursday.

[2ndoldman]

And as you can see it is a dog walk park. This is one day later on Friday.
Colin on the left and Jamie on the right.
Some trivia for those with Canadian pride. [ Friday was laundry day and I only managed an hour and a half with the boys.
This is to show you that in your hunt for silver you should never pass on the near surface targets.
Less than 2 inches deep and sounding exactly like another twist cap. If this had had a brass shackle I would definitely have left it as found. But the iron shackle broke off when I tried to remove the center section of rust.

[Havenhunter]

Okay, I'm definitely not moving to Canada! Brrrr... 68 degrees. Spent all afternoon in the garden. 🌷

[2ndoldman]

So I gave it a soapstone bath.
For the uninitiated that is a tumble with dish soap and aquarium gravel. This area was relatively free of nonferrous trash. But the presence of a lot of ferrous trash meant that I used some discrimination and that is really reflected in the lack of modern clad. Luckily the recyclables kept the go go juice flowing into the tank.

[willjo]

Do you cook him first

[2ndoldman]

There are OH so many responses that I could make.
And none of them are family friendly. :-) :-)

[chase]

HaHa Bruce a little Pu..y never hurt anyone. Nice finds my friend.

[2ndoldman]

Meow.

[OBION]

Cool finds, I like that temp chart!!!

[2ndoldman]

Thanks. The chart is a fun piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywcMO7U0BU

[Scorpion68]

Catchy title there Bruce. This time you outdid yourself. Not only interesting but very entertaining as well. I really got a laugh at the temp chart!!! ...Chuck

[2ndoldman]

Thanks Chuck. did you watch the clip I put in my reply to OBION?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywcMO7U0BU

[OnewiththewilD]

lol, yeah that chart had me laughing too. its funny when i did my family tree i found out alot of my ancestors on my meme's line who came over here first settled way up in Gaspe' and lived there for a few generations, i always thought way back when they got off the boat and looked around and said "yup this is gonna be home" what the hell they were thinking! lol. before electricity when they were only burning wood to stay warm it musta been a wicked cold way of life!

[2ndoldman]

Amen Jay. It is one thing for us to try to live the same lifestyle that they had, but if things go sour for us we can always escape back to our heated homes.
They were definitely a tough bread of people back then.

[p kurt]

Aye I want my key tag back

[2ndoldman]

Are you getting hungry?

[toccopola]

nice finds!

[2ndoldman]

Thanks.

[OnewiththewilD]

bruce how do you display all the keeper stuff you find? i can only imagine just how large your coin collection is alone!