Today is April Fool's Day and Mother Nature was laughing at us all day long. It started out cold and windy and didn't get much better.  I had on long underwear, a long sleeve t-shirt, long sleeved fleece, a heavy fleece vest and topped with a windproof, waterproof jacket. Also, long underwear pants with jeans, topped with wind proof rain pants.  My hood was up over my head and hat and headphones kept my ears warm. Also, wool socks, heavy rain boots, and gloves.  Yes, I still got cold at times. 

This morning we went to a field that had been one of our favorites last year.  What a difference a year can make.  There were very few targets at all and those were buttons, pieces of wire and bits of lead scrap.  In the afternoon, we went to a proven Celtic gold coin field.  It was still in rough plow and hard to walk on and detect on...but we did anyway.  We all wanted to hunt that field since we had a good chance of finding  gold coins.  The young couple who have been joining us from Malta for a few days did manage to find a beautiful little Celtic gold.  They were so excited that for just a few minutes they were warm again. We have been feeling sorry for them as they buy more clothes to layer but they are out there every day in the cold and wind.  It was a beauty little gold coin and I'm not even ashamed to admit that I wish it were mine.  There is always tomorrow...............