{"id":1649,"date":"2013-03-15T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T23:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-03-17T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:46:01","slug":"miserable-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1649","title":{"rendered":"Miserable Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a miserable week.\u00a0 I got sick with some sort of fever, cough, sore throat kinda thing.\u00a0 Went out anyway on Wednesday to my honeyhole, in the gray, cold, chill wind, and was skunked again.\u00a0 Cleaning up loose ends at the site, and trying to expand a couple more directions from the hot zone that was giving up 2 per hour back a month ago or whenever it was.\u00a0 Hard to believe, just 30 feet away, I couldn&#8217;t even get good tells.\u00a0 The direction into the field seems played, and while I was getting good tells in some of the loose end sections, no silver.\u00a0 It was a miserable day.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to get out Thursday, as the wind was even worse, and I was even sicker, but I did get out today, even tho I am still sick, and got more of the same.\u00a0 Bupkis.\u00a0 The site seems played.\u00a0 Too bad, cause finding new sites can be a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>But I did something I haven&#8217;t done much before, and that was to start regridding the hottest zone after I had already covered it fairly thoroughly (at least in my mind).\u00a0 And I got one.\u00a0 Gotta do a pic with the dirt on cause even I don&#8217;t believe I dug it.\u00a0 First silver coin since last week.\u00a0 It was deep and iffy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1650\" title=\"031513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I did on the regrid was grid diagonally.\u00a0 Most people grid parallel\/perpendicular to the edge of the site, but going diagonally may be a good idea, especially if you know it has already been gridded out at traditional right angles.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t do much of it, so I may regrid the entire hot zone on diagonals very carefully next week.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there are two other sections I have not spent much time in, and one gave up a wheatie spill during a quick prospecting run.\u00a0 That said, I don&#8217;t think these sections are very promising (which is why I&#8217;ve left them to last).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve closed off all of the other paradigms, so this honeyhole is just about played.\u00a0 Looks like a 61-65 silver site.\u00a0 Its just the strangest site, with a really hot patch, a traditional density patch just one direction from it, and then huge absolute dead zones right next to it where it should be promising.\u00a0 Some may have been filled, but old trees and roots in others suggest that that is not the whole story.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>One silver this week, I was sick, it was cold, and the honeyhole played out a bit sooner than I had hoped.\u00a0 What a joy. Hopefully next week will be better.<\/p>\n<p>So, lets see that beautiful rosie all shiny&#8217;ed up.\u00a0 They are exciting, especially if you only get one once a week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1651\" title=\"031513a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513a.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513a-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031513a-304x300.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a miserable week.\u00a0 I got sick with some sort of fever, cough, sore throat kinda thing.\u00a0 Went out anyway on Wednesday to my honeyhole, in the gray, cold, chill wind, and was skunked again.\u00a0 Cleaning up loose ends at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/1649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}