I was in short sleeves today on December 3rd. Sadly, this warm spell is only supposed to last one day. I didn't have the time or desire to drive to a good site. I went to a park in a nearby city that is the heavily hunted park in the area. Last time I was there was in 2007. Most of the coins came from the bark chips but a dozen or more came from the grass where everybody hunts. I had the stock coil installed and this old park really calls for the 12.5 inch coil. I got a lot of one cent coins including some from Canada and one from the UK.
The $7.50 in bills has a story too. Some idiots were obviously partying in the park and I came across their stash of empties. I do not want to be known as the guy who collects bottles or the can man but I felt compelled to clean up the park and backed my truck down a narrow path and loaded it up with 150 glass MGD bottles. The park guy came over and gave me hell for driving in the park until he saw what I was doing. He asked if I was going to return them and I said I probably would. Maybe I was infringing on his sideline but he thanked me for doing a nice thing but asked me nicely not to drive in the park again. I stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home and collected my reward.
I would not have posted this hunt but I got a new camera and wanted to try it out. I really wish this site allowed higher resolution photos. My old camera was 3.2 mega pixel. This one is 10 mega pixel. To get down to the right file size I had to switch to 5 mega pixel and crop the photo down a ways. The camera takes closeups down to 2 inches which is what I wanted for coins and other things I like to keep photos of. Look how much dirtier my paper towel looks with the new camera. I'll figure out how to properly size photos after anothe rfew hunts. I sure hope I can do that in 2009.
This December hunt makes it 22 months in a row that I've managed to get out and hunt. I'm no John in Edmonton so for me to hunt in December-February requires temps of at least 45F. That second photo is one of part of my MD spreadsheet just to see how it came out.
I had listed one of those gold coins I bought over on the classified forum for a very fair price. I got a few ridiculous offers, one for about half the value of the gold, and as you probably know gold has gone up a lot since then. I made a second post saying I was going to keep it and then the offers began to pour in. Maybe folks assume if and item doesn't sell, after a week or so the price goes down. I had the coin priced at $320 and I wouldn't sell it now for less than $360. I also got a few fair offers and had a few nice conversations with MDers I wouldn't have met here.
The $7.50 in bills has a story too. Some idiots were obviously partying in the park and I came across their stash of empties. I do not want to be known as the guy who collects bottles or the can man but I felt compelled to clean up the park and backed my truck down a narrow path and loaded it up with 150 glass MGD bottles. The park guy came over and gave me hell for driving in the park until he saw what I was doing. He asked if I was going to return them and I said I probably would. Maybe I was infringing on his sideline but he thanked me for doing a nice thing but asked me nicely not to drive in the park again. I stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home and collected my reward.
I would not have posted this hunt but I got a new camera and wanted to try it out. I really wish this site allowed higher resolution photos. My old camera was 3.2 mega pixel. This one is 10 mega pixel. To get down to the right file size I had to switch to 5 mega pixel and crop the photo down a ways. The camera takes closeups down to 2 inches which is what I wanted for coins and other things I like to keep photos of. Look how much dirtier my paper towel looks with the new camera. I'll figure out how to properly size photos after anothe rfew hunts. I sure hope I can do that in 2009.
This December hunt makes it 22 months in a row that I've managed to get out and hunt. I'm no John in Edmonton so for me to hunt in December-February requires temps of at least 45F. That second photo is one of part of my MD spreadsheet just to see how it came out.
I had listed one of those gold coins I bought over on the classified forum for a very fair price. I got a few ridiculous offers, one for about half the value of the gold, and as you probably know gold has gone up a lot since then. I made a second post saying I was going to keep it and then the offers began to pour in. Maybe folks assume if and item doesn't sell, after a week or so the price goes down. I had the coin priced at $320 and I wouldn't sell it now for less than $360. I also got a few fair offers and had a few nice conversations with MDers I wouldn't have met here.
