Boone Posey, Author at The Ring Finders

Andrew, the ring, and me

I found the ring!

Back where it all started.

About a week ago, I received a text from a young man, Andrew,  who’s wife had lost her wedding ring in their garden.  She had taken it off ,while working in the garden, and placed in on the console in her car.  This was a community garden and they had to drive to this spot to do their gardening.  While they were in the garden, their little boy, about age 4, had found the ring (unbeknownst to them), and had been carrying it around with him while he was waiting for his parents to be done gardening for the day.  They didn’t know that the ring was being moved around their space where there were other cars parked and other people out working in their gardens.  When they were leaving to go home, they found out that their son had been carrying it around.  They immediately started looking around and asking the boy where he had been walking with it.  They made some calls to borrow a metal detector and had a borrowed one, with not much luck.  They then texted me, and asked if I could help them out.  I set up a time to meet them at their garden spot.  Andrew had been looking for a few days with no results using a detector he didn’t really know how it worked.  He had found some metal, but, no sign of the wedding ring.  When I got there on the day I could start looking, he met me with a lot of frustration on his face.  I started getting my detector out of my car and got it ready to search.  I was parked away from the area that they said they had been looking, so I didn’t want to park on top of anywhere the ring could be.  He was ready to start pulling up all of his tomato cages, and other parts of his garden, just so I could get in and start swinging my detector.  I walked up to the area, near their garden spot, near their makeshift gate.  I started swinging around that area, and it wasn’t long before I got a number on my Garrett AT Pro, that was registering in the gold ring range.  I bent down and started fingering through the tall grass there, and there was the wedding ring that little bunch of grass.  He was so shocked that I found it so fast.  It took me about 5 minutes from when I got my detector ready to the time that I heard that signal.  Needless to say, he took pictures of me and him and the ring, and sent the pictures to his wife, who was at her workplace.  I was also surprised it didn’t take very long, and I’m so glad it turned out to be so easy.  I really enjoyed seeing the smiles, and another successful recovery.  This is a great hobby.  He even posted the pictures on his Facebook page, and gave me high praise on how good a job I did.  The more publicity, the better!

A few days ago, I got a text from a woman, named Lori,  who lived in a small town about an hour’s drive from me, and said she needed help finding her lost wedding ring.  She had been mowing her lawn a couple of days before and didn’t know that the ring was gone until she was done mowing.  When she mows the lawn, she always puts her ring in her pocket to keep from losing it while mowing.  Lori, had also, put her cell phone in the same pocket, and when she pulled out her phone to use it, the ring had popped out, and she didn’t notice it missing until she was all done mowing.  I was able to get to her place a couple of days later, and since, Lori, said she would be working till noon, that day, her daughter would be home to tell me the areas of the yard that they suspected the ring could be laying.  I started in those areas, and no luck.  I found a lot of ‘can slaw’, a lot of aluminum cans that got chewed up by the mower.  I took a water break, after about an hour and a half.  It was a pretty steamy day, with high humidity.  I continued on other parts of the lawn where they said the ring might be.  No luck. Just more trashy stuff laying on the surface.  I figured that the ring would be on the surface of the ground, since there had been no rain on the yard since the ring had been lost, so the chances that it sank into the soil were very limited.  I took another water break, after another hour, and Lori arrived home from work just as I was finishing up.  We talked about the whole ordeal, and I told her where I had searched and she stated that she was very upset about this ring being lost, and she hadn’t slept very well the past few nights.  She then showed me the area that she took her phone out of her pocket, which happened to be on a cement slab that was next to a large machine type shed owned by her neighbor.  So, once she had told me about that, I started to detect along the grassy edges of the cement, and walked over a few feet to the middle of the cement.  I looked down next to my coil and there was the ring, in plain sight, just laying there.  I said, « Does it look like this? »  and showed her the ring on the cement.  She yelled, « Yes, it does ». And she immediately picked up the ring and put it on her finger.  She was so relieved to have it back on her hand.  I felt very happy for her, as losing something that precious is hard on a person.  I didn’t get a picture of her and I with the recovered ring, but she sent me a picture of the ring, later.  It was a happy day all around.  Glad I could be of service.  This is what the Ringfinders group is all about.