Patience Grasshopper!

Donnie B

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As you all know, I have been learning from The Master, Danny LaMontagne, on The Art of finding Colonial Shoe Buckles.patience_grasshopper.jpg We got out Sunday with the gang to hit some colonial cellar holes. As you probably already know, The Master, dug a beautiful, huge, colonial shoe buckle and an equally beautiful silver applied knee buckle. I, The Grasshopper, stayed most of the day around the smaller cellar hole. I kept telling myself that Danny had found a shoe buckle there and a copper was surely waiting to be found. I just had to be patient and let it come to me. I didn't find the copper but I did find my 2nd complete colonial shoe buckle in the past two weeks!84814713_10216009365890577_6510113918910726144_n.jpg85049611_10216009366570594_7384050690319974400_n.jpg Here it is all cleaned up! 83945752_10216014257092854_5707366019979280384_n.jpg I found a few buttons and a couple of other doo dads but nothing special. I did take a few pics of the beautiful scenery out in the woods. 84466774_10216009368370639_8464385684256325632_n.jpg84610485_10216009369730673_4723319893556985856_n.jpg86190121_10216009368930653_990688310525427712_n.jpg Finally, here's a group shot of all the buckles that we found Sunday. Our friend, Ron, found a really nice knee buckle that you can see in the pic.85243863_10216009368010630_5144082592412205056_n.jpg
 
If I had listened to my own advice and ventured back into that area after going through it once on the stacked stone side I may have found that one two But I'm glad you stuck it out and grabbed that one Donnie , Like Jeff said many go over these and think they are more modern junk because they are so shallow sounding (like a can) or they over load a machine again the person thinks it is big junk . You're the patience King and earned that reward !:notworthy: I see you giving me a run for buckles this year !

DAN
 
If I had listened to my own advice and ventured back into that area after going through it once on the stacked stone side I may have found that one two But I'm glad you stuck it out and grabbed that one Donnie , Like Jeff said many go over these and think they are more modern junk because they are so shallow sounding (like a can) or they over load a machine again the person thinks it is big junk . You're the patience King and earned that reward !:notworthy: I see you giving me a run for buckles this year !

DAN


Grasshopper learned valuable lesson last year not digging overload signals. Grasshopper watched Master dig nice shoe buckle on target Grasshopper passed by. :girlcry:
 
Good work there Donnie. You hang around with the Shoe Buckle Badger and you will learn a thing or two.

I have one complaint though. Why are all the cellar hole foundations in CT always so well made, never choked with brush and located in scenic spots? :envious:
 
Good work there Donnie. You hang around with the Shoe Buckle Badger and you will learn a thing or two.

I have one complaint though. Why are all the cellar hole foundations in CT always so well made, never choked with brush and located in scenic spots? :envious:

Oh, we have detected a countless number of sites that are choked off with brush, mountain laurel (evil stuff :devilish:), thorn bushes, and saplings. They're not very photogenic so I hardly ever take a photo of those sites. 70624234_10214892250043379_6564133243010940928_n.jpg
 
That is one good looking buckle!! That hole is perfect too! Now is the time these sites open up. I like to hit the areas where the dead ferns are, others have to pass them up during the warmer months. :congrats:
 

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