davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

I hearya about rocky soil.  My most invaluable digging tool is a wee spade barely 6" across.  Everything else is too big to get between the rocks any time I've ever had to dig a hole here!

Glacial till, this soil is called, or so I understand. In fact, one of the illustrations on the "glacial till" page on Wikipedia looks exactly like the hillsides around here, with sparse dry grass and lots of stones and rocks... and the occasional relic from a bygone age:

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13 April - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Frosty, Man – Frosty!

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Nelly identified this archaeological relic the team found while conducting field research – that is, they were walking through a field – as a 10 ounce size steel Dr Pepper can dating to between 1958 and 1960, when the product catch-phrase was "Frosty, man -- frosty!"

About three-quarters of the imagery on the metal can has been worn away by ex-posure to the elements, but the part of the can that was buried in the earth retained enough of the original graphics for the identification to be made.

The dark background behind the stripes was superseded by a white background in 1960.

In excellent condition, a Dr Pepper can of this size and style would be worth over $300 USD on the collector market. A rusty faded example like this is merely a novelty, with any value being in the thrill of discovering a once-inconsequential item of little note that was cast aside and forgotten, likely by a cattle or sheep rancher riding herd in open range country, sixty-five years ago.

13 April - A Doll A Day 2025