Hey Out There!

[Gold Seeker]

What's up Bob, it's been a long time hearing from you, was wondering how you were doing. 

[Drillerdave]

Good to see your still alive Bob.
I always enjoy your knowledge, stories and humor. 

[mn90403]

I just read your comments about the shovel and wondered if that was you from Bill's forum.  I'll always think of BOB when I see Bedrock!

[Bedrock Bob]

Hey guys! 

Yes I'm the same Bedrock Bob that I've always been. Doing great and feeling frisky. 

Im only out for gold once in a while these days. My mom is 97 and needs a lot of my time. My adventure dog is 14 and his hips are weak.  It breaks my heart to leave him at the house. So I stay in my zip code most of the time. I

I'm snorting a lot of rimfire smoke in the evenings and that keeps my mind off gold. I have a half dozen air rifles that will hit an asprin tablet at 50 yards and that is a ton of fun too. Throwing lead out in the desert is more fun than digging it up at this point. I've got about 60,000 rounds down range so far this year. I'll get the detector out and clean it all up this fall when it cools off. 

I hope all you fellows are doing well and have quiet ground with lotsa signals. 

[rvpopeye]

Welcome aboard Bedrock Bob!

It sounds like you are already part of the crew . 

🖖Live long and prospect.

[paradiceau]

Bob,

I greatly enjoyed your well rendered tales of adventures and misadventures on Bill's old forum.

Pleasantly surprised to find that you well and happy!  Looking forward to hearing more inspiring and entertaining yarns!

[flakmagnet]

Just noticed this thread…Bob it's good to know you are still out there. You are the repository of some amazing stories.

[Bedrock Bob]

Thanks guys. I sure missed the conversation the last few years.

I love to recount my adventures in stories. Lots to tell but very few involve gold. I completely shifted gears in my search of the hinterlands for the rare and beautiful. 

Before the pallasites all that I thought about was gold. I realized one day I had tunnel vision. I was living at Baskin Robbins but I only ordered a vanilla cone. If it didn't beep it had less value to me. I had been blinded by the eddy currents. Native metal had ceased to stimulate my serotonin like it had before. 

I cut my coil cable and suddenly the world was different. Everything became the rare and beautiful that I was seeking. Finding became secondary to being and experiencing. I was spending less, making more and going places that weren't riddled with holes and old dirt piles. 

Sometimes I miss the old habit. I'll go to some familiar spot and dig a nugget or two. It's more about reminiscing and times past as it is a hunt for ground worth spending time on.

I generally find more treasure with a yucca stick than a detector these days. I looked for a yucca stick forum and couldn't find one. I figure chatting with you rascals is as close as I'll get. 

[GotAU?]

Hey Bob, I missed the eloquently written stories of your adventures on that other forum, so it’s really nice to have you back.  I haven’t been around here and there long enough to have known some of you as well as you guys know each other, but I’ve always felt welcome by people like you. Thank you!

…Oh, and the yucca stick you’re looking for? It is waiting exactly where you find it!