Haldean
Full Member
Winter Time Blues
Here I set at my desk contemplating the cold weather and wondering just where I could go and do some metal detecting. The reason I am not out there is that number one I can’t decide where to go and number two it is cold outside and I am nearly 70 years old. Old people don’t like cold weather. In order to overcome this I need a place that is promising enough to be worth getting cold over. Right now I haven’t a clue. I sit in here and read about other peoples finds on the forum and wonder how they brave the cold. Especially when I read a post from someone in Michigan. It reminds me of a time many years ago when I used to hunt all winter long. Even when the ground was too hard to dig. I had a metal detecting partner back then who was just as crazy as I am. If I had a partner to coax me along I would go today. Sometimes being retired is just lonely. Ha ha this article reminds me of a character in a “Louis Lamour” book. This character was a woman and she was alone on her ranch out in the West somewhere. She would write notes about how lonely she was and tie them to a tumbleweed bush on a windy day and let them go. O I am not saying that I am lonely. I have a good wife and some of her children keep us company here too. I’m just sayin’ that for a minute there this note reminded me of her. All I’m sayin’ is that I don’t have a metal detecting partner and if I did he would have to be persuasive enough to get me to go out in the cold. In the meantime I sit in here, read the forums and dream of finding that “double eagle” and cheer on the guys on “Oak Island”. Keep the post coming guys and galls. I read them up pretty quick. I live in Alamance County North Carolina if any one is interested in metal detecting together.
Here I set at my desk contemplating the cold weather and wondering just where I could go and do some metal detecting. The reason I am not out there is that number one I can’t decide where to go and number two it is cold outside and I am nearly 70 years old. Old people don’t like cold weather. In order to overcome this I need a place that is promising enough to be worth getting cold over. Right now I haven’t a clue. I sit in here and read about other peoples finds on the forum and wonder how they brave the cold. Especially when I read a post from someone in Michigan. It reminds me of a time many years ago when I used to hunt all winter long. Even when the ground was too hard to dig. I had a metal detecting partner back then who was just as crazy as I am. If I had a partner to coax me along I would go today. Sometimes being retired is just lonely. Ha ha this article reminds me of a character in a “Louis Lamour” book. This character was a woman and she was alone on her ranch out in the West somewhere. She would write notes about how lonely she was and tie them to a tumbleweed bush on a windy day and let them go. O I am not saying that I am lonely. I have a good wife and some of her children keep us company here too. I’m just sayin’ that for a minute there this note reminded me of her. All I’m sayin’ is that I don’t have a metal detecting partner and if I did he would have to be persuasive enough to get me to go out in the cold. In the meantime I sit in here, read the forums and dream of finding that “double eagle” and cheer on the guys on “Oak Island”. Keep the post coming guys and galls. I read them up pretty quick. I live in Alamance County North Carolina if any one is interested in metal detecting together.
North Carolina cold is tank top weather! 
). It’s 20 degrees outside right now and won’t rise above 40 degrees here in southern Wisconsin for likely another month. There’s not much to hunt in this area except turf and the only limiting factor is the ability to even dig a hole. There is no “softer ground in the woods” here, that’s not how Wisconsin works. When you tap the ground with the tip of your shovel and the shovel RINGS....not good.
