Tina got me a metal detector for Christmas this year. A good choice for me, one of my many weird hobbies is urban archeology. When we lived in D.C. I used to crawl under houses in the middle of the night wearing a joggers head lamp and dig for bottles, I found over 50 under our house alone. Mostly milk and soda bottles from the 30's and 40's. I used to talk about getting a detector and all the treasures i'd find near civil war battlefields and the like.
My birthday was a few days ago, and to celebrate Tina was going to go treasure hunting with me for the day. We drove around for a while looking for a good spot and found nothing of note, we did find a cool abandoned house on the outskirts of town though.
Here's Tina inspecting one of her finds.
This was found in a crate full of mason jars.
Front Door
Bathroom... I wanted to grab some of the furniture but we were scared of getting shot by country people so we kept a low profile.
The walls and ceiling were awesome, being in that place made me think of "the road"
We found 40 old keys in that house, and only one silver quarter. I think I'm going to try to get Tina to do some kind of art project with them.
After looting the house we drove around some more and ended up in Manor, Texas. There wasnt too much there but the town cemetary was pretty cool. Lots of old stones and statues of the virgin of guadalupe
Also My friend Sif made me a scrabble board as a gift. Thanks!! Her and her husband Paul are customers that turned into good friends. Paul is an engineer and Sif is, among other things, not able to beat me at scrabble.
