Last Saturday in October

Sad day today in Pennsylvania. My God comfort families who lost loved ones and may He heal those injured.

For something lighter at heart. A couple men came by today and asked if they could use metal detectors to search for Civil War stuff, or anything, really.
Hubby told them yes.
They actually found a few things. A metal toy car, an old wheat penny - and junk, as hubby put it. I doubt it was junk, but if they said, he wasn't interested to remember, haha.

But a few things they found, they insisted we keep.

A brass shotgun shell.

A metal piece of a harmonica.

And what I think was best, a Confederate mini ball, found out under (?) the old corner oak. (They said it was under, but they must have meant the canopy or near one of the roots maybe?)

It was a really nice day today. Mid 70s, a little breeze. Nice.

You all be safe and God bless.

Well, Murphy takes no weekends off.

I think some of you may know what this means without my telling you. And no, it has not rained for 4 or 5 days now.

Suffice it to say that this is an area near the pump house where several lines meet.
So, hubby dug it up with his tractor. He's got a new furrow making thing of some sort. I am so eloquent, aren't I?

Anyway, while digging the trench for the new line, we found some interesting things.

More red bricks. What makes these bricks different? They were cemented together, or whatever they called it then. Three layers deep. Hubby did not know of anything there, so they may have been there before the 'cow bowl' was installed. He doesn't know if his dad put the 'cow bowl' there for their dairy or not.

As for 'trench treasures'...

I did the finding as I was trying to help get the brick pieces and rocks out of the bottom of the trench.
I thought this was some sort of double ended something; but as we cleaned it up, hubby recognized it as something that was probably associated with his satellite dish installation work when we were here in 1994.

Then there was this.

The hook obviously is supposed to go in the little... detent of the ring, but it can't because of rust. At first I thought it might be a stirrup from a saddle. Then I thought possibly something to tie a horse to, because it was by the side entrance to the house.
But then I thought maybe something as simple as a swinging ring from a swingset. Who knows? ;o)

I also found this hand made spike nail thing.

And lastly, I found this.

Hopefully we get the water line finished tomorrow.

You all take care and have a wonderful week! ♥