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  1. JD08

    Off-Topic Archeological Finds

    A coral snake can't strike, that the only good part. When we first moved here, the neighbor showed us a rattlesnake he killed that was touching the front of his long bed truck and hanging off the back. Been a long time since I've even seen one here.
  2. JD08

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    We used to have a pond. Once the sawgrass started to grow near a large rock on the edge, the cottonmouths decided it was a good place to nest. Once you see a snake trying to flex on a riding mower going past, you decide they need to go.
  3. JD08

    Off-Topic Archeological Finds

    I usually do. Maybe I'm jaded, but I've seem more cottonmouths than I can count. They can't say anything about digging in a park?
  4. JD08

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    4. Don't get eaten by an alligator 5. Don't get bitten by a snake 6. Don't get caught by a park ranger
  5. JD08

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    One of these days, you're going to have to give us a beginner's guide to finding cool ****.
  6. JD08

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    Maybe you can find the Continental tire kit that used to be on his 1986 Mustang that was painted garnet and gold. I know where the car is, but the tire kit is long gone.
  7. JD08

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    The tomato farm ended up becoming Burt Reynolds' Ranch. Now it's a development.
  8. JD08

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    I'm also near an old, old railroad siding that's long gone, a mile or so from a property that used to be Al Capone's tomato farm, and two miles from the site of the Battle of the Loxahatchee.
  9. JD08

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    As long as he brings beer, I'm good with that.
  10. JD08

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    My entire yard looks like this if you dig. About a foot of white sand, marl, and shell, then black soil.
  11. JD08

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    You just know the guy that did that called his girl over to show it off hoping it would lead somewhere.
  12. JD08

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    The edge quality on that is ridiculous if it had just been done, but to survive all those years, it incredible.
  13. JD08

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  14. JD08

    Off-Topic Archeological Finds

    Every time there's any development near the Jupiter inlet, the entire site has to be gone over. Because of the Native American presence over thousands of years, but also because Ponce de Leon supposedly left a stone cross in the area.
  15. JD08

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    And not in a retirement community. but she walked her dog a little too close to the water. I remember when we first moved down here there was always a story about a poodle getting eaten.
  16. JD08

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    Also, don't take your dog with you to hunt artifacts on the shoreline. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/85-old-woman-killed-trying-121032642.html
  17. JD08

    Off-Topic Archeological Finds

    https://fortune.com/2023/02/18/fbi-civil-war-gold-dents-run-pennsylvania-lawsuit-dennis-parada-finders-keepers-detectorist/
  18. JD08

    Off-Topic Archeological Finds

    https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106
  19. JD08

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    Maybe they did it the same way Ed Leedskalnin did.
  20. JD08

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    Supposedly the older it is, the more broken down the DNA becomes. That's why they always talk about the frozen Siberian mammoths.
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