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IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY.........OR HALF FULL??

A valid question indeed today. I've returned home from my biz trip, (now possessing the glory of Mon-Tue off). So I hooked up with my nar-do-well friends, and we went off practicing "Amature Archeology". Basically, ...get a cooler of beer, head to the woods where the old folks once lived....and dig up their coins. :o)

Today was a winner. A foul, fetid, reeking swamp, which sucked the urge out of most all those involved. I of course, possessing the wisdom of age, and a smart azz old guy attitude of "seen this before".....showed up with my duck hunting waders. The most vile, slimey, inhospitable, and thus NEVER BEFORE SCANNED pure glorious filth......was thus mine.... mine....All mine. :o)

Final tally was 1 Indian head penny (1901) one 1902 "V" nickel, 13 wheat cents (all before WW1)....and three silver dimes. (two Mercury, one Roosevelt). He he he! Stupid kids. When metal detecting a SWAMP.....bring your waders! :o)

Flush with my finds, i decided the thing to do was drink beer, chat with the upset and lonely wives, ...as I ate their bratwursts as fast as they could grill them. It was then the kids started squealing. Using an old ancient detector, they found a old hand iron, one dated 1888. One of those thingies you heated in the fire until red, then used it on your Sunday collars! Quite a find. At that we all poured out onto the 1980's created/graded soccer field, now certain things dating BEFORE the 1980 bulldozer event (creating the graded soccer field) were still there. .....

It was me, ...who found it.

1/2 of small woman's wedding ring, hallmarked "14K"-- so yes, GOLD. But, just 1/2 the ring. The other half, was GONE, flung to the winds by a wicked powerful lawn mower some years before. WHACK!!.......for 3 hours+ 10 people scanned every square inch of that field,...in ever widening circles.....and never found missing part #2. :o(

The found half, was donated to the Methodist church's "food for the hungry" program (Don't tell my Southern Baptist relatives). My guess?.....that mauled 14K gold relic will bring about $100 at the "we buy gold" location now perched on every corner.

Psssssst............I KEPT.........all three of those silver dimes.

:o)