Today was Grandpa duty day for me. Anika is spending the weekend with us. I started the day out with cartoons, then breakfast, then rolling down my grassy hills.(barf), sneaking up on 20 head of mule deer( one very nice buck), sneaking M and Ms, a nice motorcycle ride, a couple hours at the playground, hide and seek, and a lot of other fun. A five year old is a lot of fun to hang out with, Nancy says that I must like to spend time with people more mature than myself. I wonder what she means?
In the afternoon I asked her if she was big enough to try out detecting for herself. She said "Yah Crap-pa, that might be fun" I haven't been this excited since my own boys fired off their first round of 44 mag ammo. I think they were each 4 years old.
I got out the Tesoro Campadre, shortened up the shaft as far as it would go, and gave her a lesson out on my lawn. I then threw a hand full of quarters out in the grass and told her she could keep all she could find. In a short time she had them all. I then asked her if she would like to try a REAL hunt. She was all fired up and ready to go.
We went over to a school playground where there were bark chips to dig in, to make it easier for her. Not more than ten seconds into her swinging that stubby detector, the finds started coming. The girl is a natural, just like her Grandma!
The picture is her finds. Pennies, one nickle, two dimes, two quarters, a ring, a copper bracelet, and a charm in the shape of a shoe. That charm was hard for me to find in the bark chips for her with the pin pointer, but she found it! She even asked me to let her hunt the grass and to teach her to dig a hole so no one could tell she had dug there. What a kid!
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I had more darn fun today. It looks like I have another detecting member of the family. I can't wait to get her to a swimming beach. The girl likes jewelery.
HH DC
In the afternoon I asked her if she was big enough to try out detecting for herself. She said "Yah Crap-pa, that might be fun" I haven't been this excited since my own boys fired off their first round of 44 mag ammo. I think they were each 4 years old.
I got out the Tesoro Campadre, shortened up the shaft as far as it would go, and gave her a lesson out on my lawn. I then threw a hand full of quarters out in the grass and told her she could keep all she could find. In a short time she had them all. I then asked her if she would like to try a REAL hunt. She was all fired up and ready to go.
We went over to a school playground where there were bark chips to dig in, to make it easier for her. Not more than ten seconds into her swinging that stubby detector, the finds started coming. The girl is a natural, just like her Grandma!
The picture is her finds. Pennies, one nickle, two dimes, two quarters, a ring, a copper bracelet, and a charm in the shape of a shoe. That charm was hard for me to find in the bark chips for her with the pin pointer, but she found it! She even asked me to let her hunt the grass and to teach her to dig a hole so no one could tell she had dug there. What a kid!
[attachment 9732 anikasfirstdetectorfinds.jpg]
I had more darn fun today. It looks like I have another detecting member of the family. I can't wait to get her to a swimming beach. The girl likes jewelery.
HH DC