Obligatory Dog Post
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This is Teddy, a dog owned by friends of the family. Teddy looks like he needs to go on Atkins. I've been trying to figure out for myself what breed he is. As far as I can tell, he's part dog and part coffee table.
Saturday's Take
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My second-ever metal detecting trip was kinda cool. I swept the beach for almost two hours, finding lots of bottlecaps and trash. I used one of the metal detector's filters to filter out the tones for iron and trash metal, but sometimes the magnetic signatures for things like bottlecaps and pull tabs can get confused with gold or silver. I guess.
A couple hours into it, I found that my detector's sensitivity setting was too low, so I cranked it up a bit and started finding coins. Regrettably, I had to be back at the house by 9AM, so I had only enough time to find about 45 cents' worth of change. (1 quarter and 4 nickels.)
Next time I go out, I'll have a better idea of the ideal settings for the detector, so maybe I'll find more change or some jewelry or something.
Sunrise at Smith Point
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We call this one "Sunrise at Smith Point" - I got up at 5 AM to go metal detecting down on the south shore beach. By the time I put my metal detector in the car, found something to sift through the sand with, and drove all the way down there, the sun was about to come over the horizon. It was beautiful down there, with nobody around and no lines to get into the park. (In fact, the parking attendents weren't there yet and no one charged me to get into the parking lot.)
Closed
/A house closing is probably the only thing you'll experience in your life that will ever make you consider the purchase of an Autopen. I've never signed my name so many times, even when we personally signed all the Underscore holiday cards ourselves.
