Book Board Chat

So....ready for this??

I DO NOT deal with "shelter in place" well. I've always been an active, albeit semi hermit sort of a guy. Don't get me wrong, I don't tend to run up to folks and cough on them. I care enough to stay apart the proper distance and then some. In fact, wandering open fields alone with my metal detector has always been a hobby of mine, long before we were instructed to never interact with any other humans in any way.

Tonight I did just that. Wandered behind the local junior high school alone, in their 50+ acre open grass field where the kids used to play soccer before the world ended. Now its just.....big...open...expansive green grass. So tonight I found seven quarters, two dimes, and too many crusty pennies to count. :o)

Now I love $2 in dirty change like anyone else would (that was the goal).....but then I got "ziiiiiip"......ziiiiip"......reading 50 on my scale.....each way...every time....."ziiiiip". Bent down, and flicked out less then 1" deep, a 2.5 gram 18K pendent of Joseph holding baby Jesus. Wheeeee!! According to the internet, that's a melt value today of $101.

If not for corona driving the kiddos away from their field,.....I'd be $100 poorer! This apocalypse thingie has its OK side effects too. :o)

Maybe I'll buy some used jigsaw puzzles off EBay for Mrs Briguy.......