Last Friday I spent about three hours detecting at a place where there used to be houses (according to a 1912 topographical map). The place is now fields and trees.
I found evidence of old use, but nothing worth keeping. There were lots of things buried 3-6 inches deep, and most of them were very rusty spikes and nuts. If I had dug up everything that sounded like a nail, I'd have 200 rusty nails. I shall post a photo of what I did dig up.
That was disappointing, but it was good to be out.
I notices quite a few trees toppled in the area from our recent storms. At A. B. Sawyer Park
Saturday night I stayed up much too late re-watching "The Big Lebowski." I love those Coen Brothers. I love all the little things they pack into their movies that are fun to pick up on with repeated viewings.
I tried to watch "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I'm half way through a Stephen Jay Gould essay on catastrophism vs. steady-state geology. That guy is a joy to read. I aways get a kick out of it when he quotes some ancient scholar, such as Pliny the Elder, and appends his quote with "[translation my own.]"
I always like the episode of The Simpson's with S. J. Gould. On another topic, like any other movie adapted from a book, the character development in the Harry Potter movies is nill. If you would like to borrow any of the books, let me know. I should warn you, however, according to certain groups, these books promote witchcraft and wizardry and may lead young impressionable minds down a path of evil First smoking, then drugs, then buying eye of newt and albino yak hair in the alley!
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