Barry who claimed to be eccentric, buried his stash of 30 gold Maple Leafs, 40 Quarter oz Gold coins, 1500 Silver Maple Leafs, and various other coins under his patio in boxes and bags, he went to retrieve some of them that he buried shallow on the edge of the patio. After digging for a couple of hours and his hands all blistered, he got a friend with a metal detector to help him locate the coins with no success. Now he is devastated that they can not be found, he searched the internet and found me, asking if I could assist him. I drove the over 100k to his home and had a lengthy conversation with him, as he told me that he had talked about the coins with his neighbour. I then crawled under his patio with my metal detector not feeling very confident. After crawling around for 20 minutes and digging a few nails I got a fairly decent signal, digging down around 6 or 7 inches I saw a garbage bag and dug around it only to hit a bright yellow monster box that holds silver maple leafs. We were both excited and after detecting and digging around, I found the bulk of his coins in plastic coin tubes, except the ones we suspect his neigbour found. What a great guy, his intent is to donate the coins to various Children`s Charities.
Ken……..I don’t what happened to our phone connection this evening. Give me the old ‘ land line connections’, any day! I detest what has happened over the last 35 years with the vast majority of the people on earth taking to this new technology like a baby takes to ‘mother’s milk’, and next, ‘candy’. This world is ‘going to hell in a hand basket’ at an ever accelerating rate. I am grateful to even be still be alive at my advanced age now. Although, I’m not entirely sure about that, considering the multitudes of ‘cretinous clueless creatures’, (how’s that for alliteration?), that I have endured, in daily life, now, for decades. Most of the people I know likely haven’t even read a book or even a novel of any real importance, other than perhaps a repair manual, or something about how to be more proficient in their ‘computer’ skills since what they may have been told to read in grade seven or eight, nine or ten, whatever. ……Let’s face it, I’m just an old idiot know nothing, old coot, that believes the the great and dying, USA Empire is the greatest thing since ‘sliced bread’! (RIGHT!) ….. But, Ken Dewerson has to be the ‘MAN’ to go to, if you have lost anything ‘metallic’ from rings to bullion, underwater or underground. The man is a master at what he can do. He’s also a gentleman and a scholar. I will never ever forget him. And he obviously loves doing whatever he can possibly do for people in their distress. He strikes me that he doesn’t do what he can do for ‘the money’ he may charge in any particular situation. He’s an ‘artist’! And ‘Artists’ like Ken, are the ‘salt’ of the earth.