7am
17 degrees, still overcast and windy. Wished Jeff a happy birthday. I will bake
him a cake for tonight as he and Steve are heading off detecting. I am going to
do the washing as the sun is trying to peek through the clouds and the wind
will dry the clothes quickly.
Washing
done so after lunch I took my detector for a walk. Didn’t find anything then
went to the first patch I found and as I walked up beside where I had dug, I
got a ‘hello’. Well fancy that, they say you don’t get it all. And even better
there were two little nuggets in the hole. I put on my rock cairns and then
picked up the detector and only a foot away got another signal next to another
hole and this one was a lovely specimen piece. Very happy with that for an
hour’s work.
Back to the van to weigh them.0.38 for the two gold bits and 1.08 for the specimen so will lose a bit there when we dissolve the rock away from the gold with some acid later on.
Baked
my Gingerbread Spiced Pumpkin Cake for Jeff then created a Gold Tally document
on the computer so we can see how much we have made so far – very nice I must
say. All the little bits slowly add up.
The
wind has stopped at last at 5.30pm when the boys got back. Unfortunately not a
profitable day – Steve got one tiny bit, 0.17 gram and Jeff got nothing. Such a
shame as it is his birthday but at least he got a cake from me. Had tea then
had the cake for dessert under canopy of stars.
The
breeze picked up again as we went into the van to watch a movie. Missed out on
watching the V8s in Ipswich over the weekend so will have to catch up online
one day. Jeff called out a bit later so say that all the stars had
disappeared!!
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