Your Ad Here

cshynes - "ahh the beers nice and warm" 2 days ago
formats

Hunt # 11 – 5/12/2012 – Time Lapse Treasure Hunting Fun

Published on May 12, 2012 by in Treasure Hunting

Junk Found

It had been nearly two weeks since I had gone out metal detecting, and I was itching to get out and have some fun. The rain finally let up on Friday, and I had made plans with Alexander to get out on the hunt. Friday came and went, and no treasure hunting happened, instead we hang around the house and relaxed. I took some time lapse video of the street (See previous post for video). Alexander made me promise we would get out and go the next day, I told him we would. He said, you better daddy. I smiled.

The next morning we woke up bright and early and had some breakfast, I then set up my phone on the Gorilla iPhone Tripod I bought and started to time lapse the video, as we headed out the video did not last long and the camera toppled off the dash. My plan was foiled, but I began to think of another solution. I quickly realized, attach it to the rear view mirror. Once we stopped at the Royal Bank for some spending money, I attacked the camera and began to take time lapse of the drive. We made a stop at a yard sale in support of Relay For Life. Where we bought a few things, and then headed out on the hunt.

Clad Found


It took us a little bit of time to get to the first place as my phone was taking time lapse and I didn’t have my Google Maps to get me where I wanted to go, so we took a few wrong turns, but after getting Lea-Anne to look it up on her phone we , we hit Harry R Hamilton Elementary in Upper Sackville, this place had either been hit up lately by another local treasure hunter, or the kids of Upper Sackville are a lot more tight with their money and affects and don’t lose it. I found a total of five pennies. After taking some video, and doing some more detecting a bunch of kids showed up, as well as people with a very annoying dog, so we headed out and grabbed some lunch.

Once lunch was done, we hit another school, Monarch Elementary in Beaverbank, we had hit a bit of this school on the last trip out, but barely completed it. That trip netted $1.40 and was hit after hit of clad. I had hoped the rest of it would be the same, my hope turned into reality as within a few seconds I hit my first clad. After charging my phone during our break, it was charged enough to take some more video, so I began to detect and video tape at the same time, my Gorilla Tripod is able to attach to my metal detector. I detected for some time and found a bunch of clad, however my phones battery quickly died again, and I was unable to video tape any more for the trip. I found quite a lot of clad, two earrings and one pewter bell shaped mentor, with angel wings and hearts. Overall the trip was great. Next weekend I will be heading back down to the land to do some more metal detecting, tomorrow I plan on building a dirt sifter for detecting the foundation.




Date Clad Misc
5/13/2012
  • 4 x Quarters
  • 13 x Dimes
  • 6 x Nickles
  • 50 x Pennies
    • 1 x Button
    • 1 x Mouse Ball
    • 4 x Hair Clips
    • 7 x Zippers
    • 2 x Earrings
    • 1 x Lego Visor
    • 1 x Smiley Face Toy
       
       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
      No Comments  comments 
      formats

      Time Lapse Of Street

      Published on May 11, 2012 by in General

      So I found a new app for my iPhone tonight, it is a Time Lapse app that can do time lapse video in HD. Most apps do time lapse by taking say 1000 photos every 2 seconds, and because the iPhone’s camera does not take wide screen photos, it normally makes just a standard definition time lapse. Which I didn’t want to use for my videos. So finding this app aloud me to have a little fun with things. I did an hours time lapse test on my street through my front window, it has some reflection from the television in the later bit, but the video turned out pretty decent. I am going to use this for my metal detecting going forward.

       
       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
      No Comments  comments 
      formats

      I Bit A Girl. I Was Five.

      Published on May 6, 2012 by in General

      I bit a girl. I was five. I didn’t know any better, should I have? Possibly, but I was five. You see it was Scouting Day at my school, and anyone who was part of Scouts Canada, or Girl Guides Canada could wear their uniform to school. At five years old, I was a Beaver. She was a Brownie, as all of you know, Beavers Eat Brownies… Or so I was told. In fact back then I was naive and believed pretty much anything I was told.

      When I was a kid, younger then my oldest son, I was odd. I would not sleep in a room unless it was green, I would not drink from a cup, unless it was green, and I certainly would not sit on the mat unless it was green, and next to Jordan. You could say, I was green myself.

      Why do I tell you this you may wonder, well the reason is children are precious, they say and do things because they do not know any better, when they are born they are a blank slate, it is our job as parents, guardians and teachers to help fill that slate with the rights and wrongs, the 1..2..3s and A…B…Cs. At the age of five, a child has learned so much, first to walk, next to talk, then to go to the potty by themselves, and to be adventurous and curious of their surroundings. They say curiosity killed the cat, I say no a large Newfoundland Dog did that, but that is a story for another day.

      When I was seven, maybe eight, I learned to ride a bike, this made me mobile, it made me curious of my surroundings. It made be rebellious, I had the freedom to ride my little bike around the block, as long as I stayed on the Crescent we lived on, the rule do not go along the sidewalk near the busy road. If I reached the end of one part, I could not cut across, I had to go back around, even though it was only a 100 metres away going straight. One day, I was biking with a friend, I don’t remember who but they convinced me to do it, to be rebellious and go the forbidden way. I did it, I got caught, I learned something. My parents tell me things for a reason, and I need to listen. Did this mean I listened every time? Certainly not, and I would find myself in the same sort of situations many times in my life. Every time I learned the same thing, but I was still learning, learning to push my boundaries.

      Pushing ones boundaries with your parents is a rite of passage in any child’s life. It is something my oldest son has begun to do, and being only five, I know it has only just begun. He’s beginning to get independent, he is beginning to want to explore, to have fun and to be a big boy, and treated like one. As a parent, I see this and understand this. He’s trying his best, he misbehaves some times, but I know grownups who misbehave worse than he does, so for the most part unless it’s something that could seriously harm him, I let him do it, even if it frustrates us. My wife does the same, and so does his Grandparents. But his school, his school seems to think children should sit on their behinds, shut up and do what they are told when they are told.
      Back when I went to Kindergarten, which is Primary in Nova Scotia we had learning time, we had song time, we had story time, we had play time. It was enjoyable. Fast forward 26 years, my son started school this year, he went in knowing the basics, when it started we quickly learned, the basics was not good enough. They expected so much from the children, they expected them to know how to write, to know how to read. I get it, but he was not even five, he was four and had only been potty trained for a little more than a year. Maybe we didn’t do enough for him before hand, but we did not know, and he struggled.

      He began primary at a local elementary school. He enjoyed it for the most part, his teacher seemed to be nice, he loved her in fact, and he seemed to be doing well, a little behind but he was coming home excited and his work was progressing quickly. Then the school board in their infinite wisdom decided to switch things up. There was to many kids in a grade one class, so they had to rearrange Primary, Grade one and two, making the class he was in now a Primary-One split and because he was not five yet, and would not be until December, they moved him to the other class, which meant a new teacher, new routine.

      He struggled, he was not enjoying school as much anymore, the new teacher was a complete opposite of the other, she was strict and had very high expectations for her students, one being sit still and do your work when told. Pretty simple expectations right? For an adult yes, but for a four year old, easier said than done. He had not gone to pre-school, so this was a new setting for him. He tried, but he had good days and bad days, he had finally just gotten into a routine again, when bam another change happened, his teacher was going on reduced work week, and would teach three days of the week, and a substitute would teach the other two days. It was hard again for him, two people, who different styles, two different set of expectations. He struggled, but he was trying.

      Then not long after, we went to parent teacher interviews. His teacher was clueless, she told us about stuff he did on a day, we did not sent him to class. We laughed it off, but as things continued the only feedback we received from her was “He’s young”, we tried to probe a little more, but really got the same answer. Not long after the meeting, we started getting calls and notes home, he’s not listening, he’s being disruptive, he’s going to the bathroom too much. Seriously? Going to the bathroom too much, this I could not believe. So I asked him, what happened today, why did you have to go to the bathroom so much? His response, I couldn’t poop daddy. The kid was constipated, and if you’ve ever been, you know it can be agony. I started to dislike this teacher.

      But it got worse. The next day, the substitute teacher marched him out of the school, with her hand holding his tightly, she still holding his hand made him tell me what he did wrong today in school. She did this in front of all the other parents, my son did not know what to say, he was upset, and I was embarrassed for not only him, but myself. Not because he misbehaved, but because it was called out on the school ground.

      I did what every parent who cared would do, I called the school, I spoke with the principle, and said, it was not acceptable for that to happen, and against their own polices. They specifically state in their Code of Conduct for the school, they will not discuss the students before or after school on the school grounds. The principle agreed, and talked to the teachers, the next day the teacher did the same thing, came to me with my son, and apologized in from of everyone. I said thank you for it, but I do not want to be addressed on the school grounds even for this, and asked if we could discuss things in the school. She agreed.

      I asked that if he misbehaves and it needs to be addressed at home, then to send a note home, or call me, we will handle it. Boy I should not have done this. That’s when it started, almost every day I was told he was misbehaving. But they would not tell me specifics. I felt that they were doing this because I went to the school administration. So I went again, and asked for assistance in resolving this, the principle said she would look into it, and the response I got was the same. He’s just very young. I lost it. I demanded to know what this means, what he was doing, I wanted examples. I was not going to get after my child daily for stuff I could not cite. She said she would get back to me.

      She did, and gave me an answer finally, he just needs a lot of guidance and does not like to sit down, he’d rather stand up and do his work. My response was, and that’s misbehaving? I then said if he needs lots of guidance, maybe he should get that help from the school. She agreed and they began to do things differently, giving him encouragement and rewarding him for listening. Things changed, I was happy for him, but still annoyed with the school, as it was now almost November, and I had been trying for nearly two months to get to the bottom of this.

      He’s doing better in school now, but I’ve continuously had issues with things his teachers do or say, and silly rules the administration makes. Really though, these teachers do not know how lucky they are, to me from what I see and hear, the kids in his class are pretty decent. He plays with a lot of them, and doesn’t want the day to end, I am happy for him, as these early years, these carefree years of his life are precious, and he should be allowed to enjoy them. Though how his teachers and the school acts some time makes me wonder, what would these teachers of done, had they been my teacher… I look back and think, my kindergarten teacher Ms. Haddock, was a saint…

       
       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
      No Comments  comments 
      formats

      Supermoon

      Published on May 6, 2012 by in General

      Supermoon taken on 5/5/2012


      All week I had heard that this weekend we would have what is called a Supermoon, as the weekend progressed more was said about it on the news and the internet. The Supermoon was coming. This got me excited, as I assumed with the name of Supermoon it would be big, bright and maybe even have a cape. OKay I didn’t really expect to to have a cape, but I did expect that we would have a huge moon in the sky. I remember seeing some pretty big full moons in the past, normally the harvest moon in the fall. SO I figured this is going to be excellent, and I wanted to try and get a picture of it. So today rolls around and while I am waiting for the baseball game to start I begin to look for the moon, I can see that it is rising just over the trees near our house, but not yet visible. So I grabbed my camera and got in the car with Lea-Anne and Thomas, Alexander was off at a sleep over so he could not witness this superness, or so I thought. As we pulled out of the driveway and headed off the street, there it was, the moon. It looked like any other full moon I’ve seen before, a bit brighter, but a tad larger, but nothing that I had expected. I expected it to be, well super, big, huge. Either way it was a nice night, so we went for a drive, and pulled off on First Lake Drive to try to get a few photos. I took some and then we came home. Popping the memory card in the camera, I was even more disappointed then the lack of superness of the moon, the pictures were blurry and the moon was more just a fuzzy ball. Disappointed I went to the internet to search “how to take a photo of the moon”, I read the tips people gave and played around with the settings on my Nikon D3000. I then went out into the driveway where the moon was now visible from and took some test pictures. When I came back in I checked them out and the there it was! The moon, and clear. I played around with the settings some more and went back out and took some more photos. The moon was certainly small in them, but clear. My lens is not meant for those kind of shots, so it was the best I could get with it. Over all though, I am satisfied how they came out. Maybe some day down the road, I’ll drop the big wad of cash to get a lens like that for these sort of times.

       
       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
      No Comments  comments 
      formats

      HRM Fire and RCMP At Lower Sackville NS Sobeys – 03 May 2012

      Published on May 3, 2012 by in General

      The Twitter-verse was pretty boring tonight, until reports of smoke and fire in Bedford. Rumors had it that it might have been around Moirs Mill Road. More stated it was the Sobeys out there not long after a tweet went out that Sobeys and the NSLC on Sackville Drive in Lower Sackville had Fire and Police at it and was being evacuated. Because it was Sackville, I jumped in my car and headed out, this is what I saw. Sounds like a smell of burning and smoke were coming from the AC System. Didn’t look like much was going on and people were going into the NSLC not long after I got there. And the fire crew was standing around outside…
      I took my phone along with me and vlogged it! Enjoy.

      Edit: From a first responder who responded to the Bedfore fire, the Bedford’s fire was not at the Sobeys as social media stated. guess we cannot always trust the twitter-verse or facebook, it was in fact on Papermill Lane, started on a deck and spread into an attic.

       
       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
      No Comments  comments 
      formats

      Hunt #9 – 4/28/2012 – A Wet And Windy Day

      Items Found At Elementry School Field


















      Date Clad Misc
      4/28/2012
      • 2 x Loonie
      • 2 x Quarters
      • 2 x Dimes
      • 2 x Nickles
      • 11 x Pennies
        • 1 x Button
        • 1 x Golf Ball Marker
           
           Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
          No Comments  comments 
          formats

          Hunt # 8 – 4/19/2012 – Lake George, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

          Glass Bottles Found Behind Stone Wall














          Large Iron Peices Found In Old Farm House Foundation














          Details to follow on post, for now please see my vlog below.



          Date Clad Misc
          4/19/2012 No Clad Found
          • 13 x Glass Bottles
          • 2 x Wagon Axles
          • 1 x Kingpin
          • 1 x Iron Spike
          • 64 x Old Nails
          • 1 x Leather Bridle
          • 1 x Brass Lock Plate
             
             Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
            No Comments  comments 
            formats

            Hunt # 7 – 4/15/2012 – A Fire Sale

            Published on April 15, 2012 by in General

            And on the seventh day, Chris certainly did not rest, as Alexander was rambunctious. You would think the entire day in the sun yesterday that he would be tired. Nope, not at all, to be young again and full of piss and vinegar, as I was sore and in pain. I grabbed a magical blue pill that takes all the pain away and we decided to head on out again, this time we decided to go down to a park we had gone to a few weeks earlier, we had not stayed long and I still had a lot to do around the play equipment. So off we went, when we got there I noticed something different. One of the slides, was gone and in its place was yellow caution tape and plywood covering a hole. After wondering out loud about what the hell happened, my wife told me. Some kids had set the slide on fire, and if you don’t know what happens when plastic meets fire, I’ll tell you, it melts. Either way we trekked on and Alexander played on the equipment with the watchful eye of his mother while I began to swing.

            First I swung were the slide once stood, and found a bunch of nails sticking up in the ground that the maintenance worker had left when he put of the plywood. FRom there I did not have much better luck, I continued to dig junk, along with some pennies, nickles and dimes. Guess I got most of it the last time.

            It began to get a little cold, and we all were a little hungry so we headed home to get supper and prepare for the week ahead. I for one was not looking forward to heading to work as I knew I would be in pain.


            Date Clad Misc
            4/15/2012
            • 3 x Dimes
            • 1 x Nickle
            • 13 x Pennies
              • 5 x Nails
              • 2 x Bottle Caps
               
               Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
              No Comments  comments 
              formats

              Hunt # 6 – 4/14/2012 – Fun At The Beach

              Items Found While At The Beach on 4/14/2012

              It was a beautiful day and I had promised Alexander we would go out treasure hunting the night before. I woke groggy and did not want to get out of bed. However Alexander would have nothing of it, and since a promise is a promise I reluctantly got out of bed and headed to the bathroom to get my day going, after a 30 minute soak in the tube, it was time to go.

              So we packed up the car with the metal detecting equipment and the kids and set out not knowing where we were going to go. As soon as we began to drive, I turned to Alexander and said, where to. His response was quick and demanding. The beach, and one with sand, not the rocky one daddy. I chuckled as we had taken him earlier in the spring to Lawrencetown Beach which is a pretty rocky and barren of sand. He did not enjoy it. I can’t say I blame him. So off towards Hubbards as we where going to head to Queensland Beach. When we got there it was high tide, really should have looked before we left, so we just drove on by, as there was pretty much no sand available. We continued down the road until we found another beach. Alexander did not care that it was high tide he wanted to go and play in what sand was visible, so we got out. I grabbed my gear while Lea-Anne wrangled the kiddos and we hit the beach. There was maybe 2 to 3 meters of sand visible from the rocks to the water, and the waves would take some of that as they came in, but I began to detect up and down the beach. This beach had been hit already recently, or its still to early in the spring and nothing has “Accumulated” since fall, we where heading out and finally I got a hit, a quarter. Big money there.

              Earring Found on 4/14/2012

              Resigned to the fact there was nothing more to be found we began to leave the beach. Just off the beach there is a grassy area near the parking lot and I decided to swing over the grass for a bit to see if anything was there. I saw a few old plugs that had been poorly filled and realized this has certainly be hit prior, I still did a few swings, and shockingly, I swung over an old plug and got a hit. Digging it up, it was a loonie. The person who had done the plug previous must not have had a pin-pointer as they missed it by a few inches. I did some further swinging and found another loonie, and a gold plated loop earring. I’m pretty sure it is junk as I see no markers on it, but it was still a find. From there I hit my first toy of the season, a piece of a toy scooter. Was a decent day over all and got to spend time with the family before the upcoming work week took me away from them.


              Date Clad Misc
              4/14/2012
              • 2 x Loonie
              • 2 x Quarters
              • 2 x Dimes
              • 6 x Pennies
                • 2 x Earrin (Costume)
                • 1 x Scooter (Kids Toy)
                • 1 x Hair Clip
                   
                   Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
                  No Comments  comments 
                  formats

                  Hunt #5 – 3/29/2012 – Blast From The Past

                  Clad and Earring Found on 3/29/2012

                  Clad and Earring Found on 3/29/2012

                  I figured since both schools near us have been hunted and all the clad to be found at them mine.  We would branch out to another playground near us, I had not been down to this local playground in many years, not since I was in Junior High probably, so that is probably 15 years ago, since that time the houses have grown up around the little playground, I was shocked as knew it had been built up around, but didn’t expect to see what used to be field and trees, now a street of houses.  I guess that is just the life of a suburbanite, we arrived at the park and Alexander quickly got down to business of playing on the playground, while I got ready to do some metal detecting, there was three older kids, grade five or six I expected, and there dog, who was off leash running around, my first thought was, this is going to be fun, not.  That opinion quickly changed when Alexander called out a name with glee, one of the older kids was his reading buddy from school, and two of his friends, who both knew Alexander as well.  So as he played with them I began to hunt for buried treasure, while Thomas supervised from his snugglie attached to his mama. I began to get a lot of hits and I had hoped I was on the gold or silver that would make me not have to go to work, but alas it was more like some clad and junk.

                  Over all though, not a bad hunt, Alexander had fun, and I got to get more practice on the metal detector.  Sadly the hunt could not last for more then an hour as Lea-Anne reminded me, we had to get groceries.


                  Date Clad Misc
                  3/29/2012
                  • 1 x Loonie
                  • 3 x Dimes
                  • 17 x Pennies
                    • 2 x Button
                    • 1 x Butterfly Earring
                    • 4 x Washers
                       
                       Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn
                      No Comments  comments 
                      © chrisHYNES dot com
                      credit