Monday, June 4, 2012

The House that Keeps on Giving

Recently it became very clear that I needed a metal detector. I was walking around outside on a nice sunlight day when I kept seeing gilts of something on the ground. After leaning down and poking around I came to one conclusion.

Mother of God I need a metal detector STAT!

Please ignore the leaves and sad, neglected picnic table. So far we have!

Above is what I have pulled out of the ground by hand, sans about 20 rusty nails and a heap of broken glass.


I have no idea what this is but it's about 11 inches long and white in some places.


I'm not sure what it was but I shall name it tetanus!


This...long metal stabby thing...is around 2 feet long and angled on one side.


Here it is again, intimidating the other yard relics.


Above is a sampling of the other items I've found. Random tiles, nails and socket type thing?

So yes, a metal detector is in order, if for no other reason than I really don't want one of the kids to accidentally fall on a nail or other random shape, pointy thing. I honestly don't know why no one else that ever live here never noticed giant metal objects poking out the ground, but hey, maybe I just look down a lot.

Summer relic hunting, here I come!

3 comments:

  1. Haha, I found a rusted SET metal claw animal trap in our garden. Glad I found it before our dog or toddler did. Might not be a bad idea to circle your lot.

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  2. That top one looks like an ax blade or something similar. The second one looks like some sort of prying tool. Definitely not things I'd want my kids to find!

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  3. The metal claw animal trap would have made me paranoid beyond belief! Like as if I had land mines hanging out!

    There was a saw mill across the street from 1700-1850 and I'm always finding weird saws around here (like hidden in the walls) I'm afraid of how many new ones will turn up if I actually try to look for them.

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