Spring Is Almost Here!

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last night...


This MORNING!




and that's why it's no longer called global warming... it's 'Climate Change?'

ASLAN, too funny. Hopefully it will end soon.

I wanted to go to my LCS on Monday but I just checked the forecast and they think it's going to be freezing rain that day... FUN FUN FUN I drove in freezing rain once on the highway over the pass, the guy in front of me flipped into the ditch, I skated to an unsteady stop, it was a young family in a minivan, thankfully the only fatality was the van's passenger side, they were just shaken not stirred

We've had an avalanche in a residential area and my neighborhood is in the middle of a storm warning area for high winds and severe wind-chill...




I think I'm going to hibernate as much as possible, I'm so happy for my snow blower. Being from Montana or Minnesota you'd expect this type of thing, but COME ON!

I do have pity for anyone that has inches to look forward to, especially those in the places that don't even know what a snow blower is. But I had to laugh at the obligatory news blurb about California drivers having trouble with a little bit of rain... I was in town yesterday and had to power skid around half the turns

Massive pile ups here we come, be safe better yet stay home

Huge mountainous piles of parking lot snow here...cant wait for it to melt so's I can get out a bling-hunt these lots!

Suddenly, we've got a week above freezing forecasted in Canada! Everything's melting - this is my least favourite time of the year because everything is brown and ugly.

I live in SE Wisconsin just north of Milwaukee. One of the most miserable winters of my life is just ending. The ground here froze around December 1, so I haven't been able to get out detecting in over 3 1/2 months. I hope that all changes tomorrow. Some decent weather has melted most of the snow and it is supposed to be over 50 degrees tomorrow! I'm praying for thawed ground in the large park where I like to hunt. Winter has been far too long!

Well, the weatherman lied to us. No 50+ temperatures for us today. It was cloudy and maybe made it into the high 30s. The ground is only thawed to a depth of about two inches, so the metal detector did not get a workout.

I couldn't take it any more and got out my detector. Part of my yard (very well-hunted) was thawed, but the rest is still frozen.

I hadn't been detecting more than ten minutes when I looked up and saw a man walking toward me. He turned out to be a fellow metal detectorist. We got talking and exchanged phone numbers. He said he's dying to have a detecting buddy. He only lives a few blocks from me. I've now met two fellow detectorists with whom I can share my hobby.

By the way, my yard yielded a bolt, a beaver tail pull tab and an old faucet attachment. I don't think there's much left in it, but it has yielded two silver coins and about fifteen Wheaties, the oldest being a 1917 I found last fall.