It’s Christmas eve and I know I’m not getting a metal detector for Christmas. I’m lucky to be able to blog because my telephone bill is so high and I don’t know why. It’s over $200 again and I only have one telephone line and DSL. Jesus, I wish there was an alternative to Verizon here, they are killing me! Any suggestions?

This time of the year is only good for doing research. The ground is frozen here in the northeast and the beaches are too far away to get out. Well only an hour away but I can’t afford the gas.

I had an old metal detecting book that I can’t find any more that had a GREAT place to hunt. It was a place in Delaware where there was a pier going out into the Delaware Bay that they used to gamble on. I actually tried to metal detect in the water there once. I had an old Whites metal detector and I took it into the water and it died.

I now have fantastic equipment for water detecting and do you think I can find this book? Jesus, I must have dozens of metal detecting books and this is the ONLY one that I can’t find. THE most important book out of all my metal detecting books and it like disappeared into the either.

I have searched high and low for this book on the internet and I can’t find it. I would pay a hundred dollars for that book today if I could find it. I don’t remember what it was titled but it was something like places to metal detect  in Delaware or something like that.

I did countless hours of research on Delaware gambling especially on the Delaware Bay but nothing. I can’t believe I was there and I don’t have the faintest recollection about how to get back there. This is maddening to me.

All I remember from this book is that somebody was there and hunted in the water where the pier used to be and they were uncovering silver dollars by the bucket loads! I am sure there is something left there if only I could find a way back there with my water hunting metal detectors.

I’ll keep looking and researching until this wicked winter breaks. This is definately the time of the year to do research. It’s what keeps us northern metal detectorists sane during the winter. Reading the posts on metal detecting forums just adds to the agony because it’s usually the guys from Florida or Hawaii or Puerto Rico or the Bahamas that drive the boards.

For those of you who are in the same situation that I am I appreciate your pain. If your weather is warm all year round than all I can say is FUCK OFF! I don’t want to hear it. Well really, yes I do because I’m a glutton for punishment. OK, if you live in a warm climate you’re a lot fucking smarter than I am and my hats off to you. I was actually going to move to Florida until I got married. Have you ever tried to unstick a women farther than 50 miles from her mother? Good fucking luck!

Well marriage ended my Florida plans. We got married in Pennsylvania and I was ecstatic when she agreed to move to Delaware. It still gets colder than a witches tit in the winter but at least I can live closer to the beach. It’s so easy metal detecting in sand. I sometimes fall asleep thinking about beach hunting and I always find some good shit weather I am falling asleep or doing the real thing.

I’ll be back soon to bore you to death with my moaning until spring time. Then I promise some relatively interesting posts. Until then keep reading because I plan to bore you more with useless posts about how I can’t stand waiting for Spring and what I am doing until then.