CHEST OF GOLD

Day 17,809 on this planet. It's 6:57 a.m., 71 degrees out, and a slightly foggy, cloudy Saturday. We just had a short but intense cloudburst that soaked everything pretty good. I have no idea where the little white dog is. Sat up with Junior last night as he had this excruciating severe pain- itching episode associated sosmehow with his tubing sunburn. We covered him in hydrocortizone and watched several episodes of Earth2 with Rebecca Gayheart, into the wee hours.

The front yard, just next to the house was metal detected yesterday , descriminating for copper, silver and gold coins, to a depth of ten inches. Found were two pennies, two quarters and a dime. No silver or gold. But there is an area we found with modern coins to a depth of 2-3 inches which we didn't bother to excavate, and another area with something either too big or too deep for us to bother with yesterday. Today I will investigate these sites with my toy Wal=mart 99-dollar detector--What I am anticipating is finding a cache of pirate gold that's value will be life altering for me, Junior and the little dog. It will be a large oak chest with brass fittings, filled with 15th century pirate gold and silver coins and jewels. Now, how it came to be in Indiana will be a mystery that we will solve, soon to be made into a major motion picture, starring Johnny Depp in the flashbacks as the Pirate, and Angelina Jolie Voight as my love interest--I'll be playing myself...Anyway, that's the plan. If not, oh well. ( the only hard part will be getting myself in shape so I can woo Lara Croft away from Bradley Pitt . I know he's much better looking than me, but is he nearly as charming?). -30-