Owen got a metal detector for his birthday and our yard may never recover.
We did the tutorial (several coins, a sheet of aluminum foil) so that he could practice finding different types of metal and I showed him how toggle the various controls so that he could blah blah blah blah I'm making you wait so that you can't use this thing yet and it has fun buttons blah blah blah.
(This is, based on how he's currently using it, what Owen heard while I explained how the different modes.)
He's found SO much treasure. Even before he needed the shovel he found about a dozen matchbox cars that had been left outside and grown over from the summer. But then he got the shovel out and started to dig up the wealth of centuries.
There was a rusty old hook and eyelet, a massive (4 inch) iron pipe that was perhaps a bit of irrigation? (It was angled down and filled with water.
Then he found what I assume was some sort of old electrical line and pulled up a solid twelve feet of it from various points in the yard.
"Don't worry, Dad, I'm filling in all of the holes that I make!"
There were some bits of wire and some other treasures as well. At some point I found it was easiest not to look directly at the digging, so they might've found something truly valuable that I just haven't heard about yet. But they are running out of lawn, and they need NEW places to dig.
"Dad, can we go to the lake today?"
"When are we going to Albion today?"
"Do our neighbors need anything found in their yards?"
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