Hidden treasure found after 50 or so years

When I was young we had no video games or the like

to rob ourselves of precious time for exploring and 

hiding simple treasures.

I remember a tree , cedar tree, on the hill above our house 

that had limbs that extended out and down to the ground.

It made a perfect hut and a special place to play 

after the chores were done.

One year we, Lynn and Leesa and I if I remember correctly, 

 buried a special treasure under that tree.

I don't remember if it was in the summer

or in the winter when the snow had drifted 

over the top of the tree making it into 

a real snow cave. I would have been 

somewhere between 6 to 11 years old.

(Added note: I have talked with Lynn and Leesa

and so far Leesa is the only one who remembers doing it also.

She also thinks we were in an elementary school timeframe.)

Anyway we buried a can of treasures and I didn't remember 

what was in it but over the years when I have 

had a chance I have gone several times up the hill

and looked for that treasure. I never ever found it probably

because my memory of the hill was skewed over the years 

and the path to the hideout obscured by time.

Well today September 25th of the year 2016 I received

a text from my nephew in Duchesne, who lives

on the old farm where I was raised, with this image attached

and asking if any of us remembered anything about this treasure.

He said they had been clearing trees up on the hill 

and found it while removing an old dead tree. 

Well I remembered it and was kind of shocked

to find that it had been found.

I thought that maybe over the years someone else had found it and 

removed it from our secret hiding place under the tree in that cave.

Craig said that I may not have found it because the tree was now dead

and I would have been looking for a live one.
I was also probably thinking that it was further up on the hill

than where it actually was located.

Anyway it was fun because he said he had also found evidence

of rocks lined up to mark a trail and 

of dead branches moved to cover the area better.

Well we had made a border to the trail into the cave with

rocks and we probably made the cave a little more 

secluded with other limbs, that part I don't really remember.

Needless to say it has been pretty fun

realizing that a treasure that we had hid as boys 

was found so many years later by our nephew. 

It is also really fun to now know what I as a boy considered 

a real treasure. There probably would have been coins in it

had I been rich enough to let go of a penny or nickel.

However it housed for us 30-30 and .22 shells, rocks, 

hazelnuts, round toothpicks, a wooden domino, marbles,

pencil erasers, a suction cup, little train car, green rubber hammer head,

yellow plastic ring from a vending machine or cracker jack box, 

and a carved wooden face much like what I have 

carved on several scout campouts as an adult.

They were all stored in a can made to last over the decades

that used to have Cocoa in it.

Yep it was a treasure can filled with many of my 

boyhood treasures. I am surprised that I would part with any of

them but maybe they were all things that belonged to Lynn instead.

I have since hidden coins in walls while building our house

and while remodeling the house Dawna lives in now. 

That was while we were getting it ready to live 

in when Marie and I were married.

If I remember correctly they were of the year when we did it

1975 and again in our current home in 1983.

(Just a note in case you ever remodel or tear down this home.)