Buried Treasure
A week before last Sunday I was feeling a little antsy. Though the winter has been really mild by Alaska standards, I had been spending way too much time inside and was suffering from a little cabin fever. It just so happened that the day was turning out to be pretty nice, kind of sunny and not too cold. The tide was in my favor too, so I called my oldest daughter, Jen and my grandaughter Kaylahni and we went out to the cannery with Jan's metal detector to scour the beach. Frankly, I wasn't expecting to get all that much. We've been up and down that stretch of beach five or six times in the past digging up lead from the seine nets that used to be in the old web house that burned down. I understand that the cannery used to store the seine nets in the house until the seine season started in the summer. I have no idea how many nets were there when it burned down, but as I mentioned, every time we've been out there digging, we've come up with buried treasure. Several ...