Lost ring in South Dakota

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.