Tuesday, moving into the new temporary digs in Nelson. Weird, actually living in town - but, a beautiful space, wrap-around windows, a waterfall, gas stove (!!! and what a treat this is!), only for a week but I'll be sure to enjoy it.
Tuesday night the boy comes in from Sun Peaks - finished his job at the ski hill, now a month off before he goes tree planting.
We catch up.
Wednesday, what to do? Lockdowns, and we're all broke. Give him a choice - head off to gather some crystals at the new location, or maybe go search for the Boswell Meteor...
He chooses the Boswell Meteor hunt.
Now, I should have advised against this. The meteor hunt, this is metal detector work, long hours of swinging a metal detector with not a signal in sight. This is mind-numbingly boring. Maybe if you smoked some ganja it would be better, but I'm not sure. I've watched the YouTube videos of prospectors in Arizona, Australia, looking for nuggets in the desert, their entire 2 weeks can be condensed into 30 minutes, yes, they dig up some great finds, but there's a lot of days where they dig up nothing, and they're in the desert...
This is grueling.
An hour passes, nada, not a thing, double checking the metal detector over your boots just to hear a signal. Any signal.
But - things are about to change.
What is clearly a piece of alien ship. Large, heavy.
Hmmm.
Hmmmm
The story becomes clear. This was no meteor, this was an attempt by a highly advanced space-faring civilization to make first contact. An attempt that left a debris field scattered all over the western Kootenays, and likely ended with the aliens having their ass blasted back to Saturn by some of the more no-nonsense locals.
We go down to Garland Bay to detect a bit more - to perhaps find all the lost Patek Philippe's and Rolex's and Diamond Rings lost by the beach goers of Riondel, but it ends up much the same. Lots of Space Debris, very few Rolex's and Patek Philippes.
Although the beach gravel, in the light rain, was more than spectacular...
Which ends the day and all the good work of taking the boy up Crystal Mountain has been undone by taking him on this Meteor hunting expedition, and I'm now obliged to go out and find it just to prove it can be done...