Today, arriving by the grace of Grandma K. and the Big Brown Truck, D and S received a White's Prizm II Metal Detector for a shared birthday present.
It arrived whilst they were at a piano lesson, so A and I got to play with it first. Our first booty: 1 penny! WOOHOO!
The thing has a discriminator on it so you know whether you're over a nail, a pop tab, or a diamond ring. However, I'm a little dubious about its reliability.... when I tossed MY wedding ring on the ground, it registered as a nail. (Hm. Must examine this ring more closely.)
We left the detector in a conspicuous place so they'd find it easily when they came home from piano. Overjoyed kids! Pirate's booty to be found! Caches to be sought! The treasure hunt is on!
Scanning a small portion of our backyard, the kids and A recovered 11 pennies, 3 nickels, 1 dime, 2 quarters, a button (or a cracker jack toy, can't tell), a fishing weight, a click-clack/hair thing, and the back water spigot handle that D lost when he was 3.
What would make D's joy complete: finding that mammoth skeleton he KNOWS is in our backyard somewhere...
We have big plans for this metal detector, oh yesss. Maybe it will be the O family version of geocaching.
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hmmm...you must come explore our "sandbox" in our back yard. I find many, many treasures in there. Will no doubt find many more.
I'm suprised they didn't drag you over to the park... the area over by the picnic pavillion should be a gold mine.
That is The Great Carrot, Richard. The kids must finish math/piano/history/what-have-you before they are allowed to go treasure hunting. So far we've done only the back and front yards. :) But we'll get to the park really soon.
Wow, you guys leave a lot of change around your back yard! ;-)
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