It's been a while since I posted here, mostly due to a plethora of severe systemic illness that keeps me running what, for all intents and purposes, is a small medical laboratory. Multiple daily blood tests, constant injections and handfuls of pharmaceuticals every other hour is the order of the day. Once a VA specialist asked me if I was tired of all the injections I shot up with every day. When I nodded, she told me it was called "Diabetes Fatigue" which amazed me in the sense they had gone to all the trouble to formally name the irritation with all the drugs and procedures they foisted upon you. And recently, months ago, I had a good-sized cancer tumor removed from my colon, a stage-2 which was planning to kill me in short order. A good deal of my metal detecting hobby pals have already shoved off for the great well-tended park in the sky, and I miss them all.
Here in the US I have been hoping we could develop a national database, much like England's amazing Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) whereas the American metal detecting hobbyist had a place to register and display artifacts recovered during detecting outings, many of which are historic and of interesting origins, However, the current social turmoil enveloping the U.S. has brought most intellectual endeavors to a standstill, instilling a certain opinion that it will be many years, if ever, before the country will recover to it's former level of enlightenment.
At any rate, since this is my first post of 2021, six months late, I might add, I'll just let the blog take me where I will here on out, and thanks to all my friends and colleagues, and associates for putting up with me, Especially my wife Patti who has to endure my take and displeasure on everything and anything with quiet resignation. Patti also endures being the CFMDC's "model" for all my graphic projects and announcements for the club, as well as on video announcing club hunts and events. She has even acquiesced and done "voice-overs" for me on video projects where I had a cold or could not talk, which Patti point's out is "...very rare!" Here she is in one club project...hi Patti!
Patti modeling our metal detecting hunt!
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| Patti before Photoshopping |
