{"id":5366,"date":"2020-11-28T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T00:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forths.com\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:05:54","slug":"a-pair-of-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/28\/a-pair-of-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since we moved in to the new house a few years ago, I’ve been interested in learning more about the 33 acres of woods behind the house. I assumed that the woods were always woods that somehow escaped development, but a map from 1875 showed that this was all once farm land. The map also identified a homestead nearby. On November 20, I decided to take the metal detector around that area, which is heavily wooded today. I quickly found a large old horse shoe, and absent-mindedly left it on a log. I was not able to find it a few days after, but today, 8 days after the horse shoe was unearthed, Nicki found it, still resting on a log. The metal detector also found a second, smaller horse shoe today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n