Second Dig – Side Yard and Pond – 080704
Our second dig went better. Robbie and I went out first and we ended up finding the missing penny from the other day. Riley and Sarah came over next and Riley helped dig up a long iron nail. It kept him interested for a few minutes before he got bored again. We dug a few more holes, found a short iron nail and a small piece of what looked like barbed wire. Riley and Sarah both went inside.
I was playing with the controls and kept switching the settings to try to get used to them. Eventually we found another target and Robbie dug up out first coin! It was a penny, the face was pretty beat up so we could not make out the date, but the back had the Lincoln Memorial so it wasn’t too old.
Robbie and I continued down the side yard and found another small piece of junk metal then decided to wander down to the pond. Some of the spots in the grass were too hard for Robbie to dig, so we figured the sandy patch next to the pond might be easier.
We got halfway down the road and Riley and Sarah noticed we weren’t in our yard anymore. They came running outside and chased us down the road so they could join us at the pond. When we got to the pond, the main attraction for the boys was throwing rocks into the water, so Sarah took over the main digging duty.
We didn’t find much of interest and the pond. The first thing that beeped was a fishing hook on the surface. Then we found a couple of fishing sinkers (3 total). Sarah pulled out a long iron spike of metal, then the top of an old pull tab metal can. In between Sarah taking turns digging and throwing rocks, I found a lipstick with a metallic top, a soda can and beer bottle top. They were all visible on the surface but they beeped when I ran the coil over them.
Towards the end, Emily and Sam came down to the pond. We checked Sam to see if he was made of metal or “dog”. Although he did beep, we decided Sam is non-metallic and it was just his metal collar setting of the detector.
At least we started to find some metal, and of course many non-metallic worms were sighted.