I’m thinking about writing a blog, called “Shit I Find in the Desert.” I live in an area, long ago was populated by natives, so I go out for walks and I can’t help but find stuff. I once found a pure silver 1946 quarter. Funny to think, it may have been sitting in the same spot since before the house I lived in nearby was built. House was built in like 1960 or something, old ranch house for this area, but native land for hundreds of years before that.
I’ve also found rocks with aquatic fossils in them hiking around this area, and I believe I found a rare meteorite as a child in this area, which sadly is lost.
Digging a hole for a pond turned into an excavation. I pulled up old adobe bricks, lots of bottles and broken glass, I think I found the old camode. Glass dated to the 1920s, a full 40 years before an official house is located as existing on the property.
My family lives on a 5 acre ranch there, 2 houses, 3 or 4ish structures .... right next door, over the wash is vacant desert. My step Dad knows the owner, anything I find, walking around over there, I would be glad to give to anyone who wants to share the history of this land. I’ve used a metal detector and found a lot of strange metal objects. And one, that really will make some people jealous:
Not the fork, I put that there for scale ... that’s a steel, Native American arrowhead. Very rare, only made for a short period of time. Seems to me like it would not be hard to fake and thus, even if rare, hard to quantify as real and worth a lot of money. It’s one of the coolest things I have found, in my life. I know it is real and exactly where it was found.
I used to use a metal detector, but it distracts me. I just find stuff. I can’t help it. I go for a walk for my health, I come back with 5 different things I found.
Should I make a blog, dedicated to shit I find in the desert? We could even sell the shit, and like donate some proceeds to local native youth organizations or something like that. Does that sound like a good idea ... or just, random pictures of weird shit.
