On April 19, 2020, I went to Johnston to search for Mike’s wedding ring, while maintaining social distancing and wearing a mask. A friend, who I had recovered a ring for previously, referred Mike to me. He lost the ring in his back yard while doing yard work. He was upset that he had lost such a sentimental item. After searching for 4 hours, Mike was ready to throw in the towel. At that same time, I located the ring. Mike and his family were thrilled!
On February 3, 2020, I was contacted by Ryan from Portsmouth about a lost ring. He was doing some yard work at his home and lost a gold onyx ring. It was an heirloom that had been handed down to him by his mom, so he was anxious to recover the ring. After searching the yard for an hour and a half, I located the ring in a pile of brush. Ryan was very happy to have the ring back!
Corona Gold
During these turbulent and unsettling times, all of us are challenged with the task of getting what we need to survive while staying safe.
Amongst the changes in the natural rhythm of our routines, things get lost, including jewelry. Today, the pictured gentleman and his wife were simply bringing groceries from the garage to the house during a brief snowfall in the Detroit area this afternoon. When they got settled in the house he noticed his ring missing. He feared it came off at the store and didn’t know who to turn to for help. When I was on the way to him, we talked on the phone. I assured him I practiced safe swinging!
I suggested we check the area he crossed over from garage to house. It was a small area. Searching in a grid pattern my MXT started to chatter back junk metal signals. About 6 feet from where he was walking the MXT sang out with that all familiar sweet, mellow sound of gold. I reached down into the layer of snow and pulled up this lovely, cold, corona gold colored ring! I said to him even the ring is practicing social distancing!, and in my opinion, this virus has done what no other woman has been able to do, which is to be able to close all the bars, take away the sports and keep her man at home all the time! We laughed and following suit we celebrated with a refreshing, cold Corona gold colored beverage!
Be Safe Out There Everyone!
Jon
wHOOP It Up!
The pictured lady experienced a turnover when her earring went missing last week.
Her and her mom jumped through hoops trying to end the losing streak.
We agreed to meet this morning and move around the play area looking for a scoring opportunity.
Scanning the half court, we noticed a soft relaxing couch large enough to sit, sleep, lay down and watch the game.
After that tip off, my teammate and I dribbled and passed towards the end of the court to set up and score.
Reaching into and thru a hoop hole in the material, I yelled slam dunk! as I pulled out this beautiful 20 points of diamonds hoop earring!
We were thrilled that all the hoop-lah was over and that our dunkadelic strategy along with playing above the rim defeated the underdog with a large point spread, putting her earring back in the game, and bringing March madness to March gladness!
Jon
Fowl Play
While tending to the chickens and running errands during the wet snowy weather in the Detroit area this past week, this pictured lady’s ring came off. Quite eggsqusite it was and they had taken a lot from their nest egg to buy it.
They decided to wing it and searched around the cluck hoping to bring the ring back from eggs-isle. By fryday their henthusiasm turned to brooding and ruffling of feathers. Finding it seemed as scarce as hens teeth. Feeling mislaid, thinking this isn’t what it’s cracked up to be and that the ring flew the coop, they decided to take it to the nest level, hatched a new idea and said cluck it, let’s reach out to someone with more eggspertise. We decided to meet today at 8 o’cluck and when I got there it didn’t seem that anybroody was around. Circling around the back the couple appeared. They thought it was an eggselent idea to eggsplore the hentrance of the coop and henhouse where she felt it slipped off and the brood scrambled it, but my MXT squawked over targets that were less than chicken feed. I said eggscuse me?… as they crowed I was a bit cuckoo when I eggsclaimed let’s look at the big peckture and search the perimeter of the coop. Searching the 3 sides and closing in on the end of the 4th, anticipating fowl language with nothing to crow about, the MXT gave out a roosting call that really layed it on the line. In one fell swoop into the snow with my Garrett carrot we exclaimed mother clucker there it is!! as it revealed this nested, gorgeous white gold wedding set (3) ring at the same time the hens cried fowl, letting out broody growls and cackles scolding us for tempting them with that carrot and blaming them for losing the ring. The couple was eggstremely happy the ring came home to roost. Lastly, suggesting it would crack me up to see them do the funky chicken they said it would be hentertaining to do so, and it was….. poultry in motion!
Jon
Squirrelly Silver!
This pictured lady was out in her yard Saturday evening throwing apples in the direction of multiple squirrels digging thru the snow for grub when her ring came off. When we talked we agreed to meet today and look. When I arrived there was about 2 or so inches of snow. She showed me the place where she stood and gave the general direction of her throws. I saw half eaten fruit and where there may have been critters in the snow and started to grid search in that direction. From above, jumping from different trees 2 squirrels were peering down thru the scented pinecones sending vocalesque squeaks, squawks, chatters and bark-like grunts in our direction with more intensity as we approached the food, or were they trying to send a message to my good luck charm Nessie? Fear aside, we marched on!
No metal targets came thru at first so I started to search along a line 90 deg. from the first. Just when I was getting close to the fence my MXT signaled loud along with a high meter read. As I brushed the snow aside this trapped, thick silver ring revealed itself! As I worked to free the ring from the ice the squirrels scurried down the trees and approached closer thinking we were putting more food down. Upon standing, handing her the ring, she held it up for a pic, but as the squirrels looked at the shiny object they quickly zoomed back towards the trees. We laughed and said as fast and zappy as they are we’ll never catch them but we did catch your squirrely silver!
Jon
lost gold wedding band at Lauderdale Park Fort Lauderdale Florida… found..
I got a call from a man saying that he lost a heirloom gold wedding band ring handed down to him from his relatives. He actually lost two rings but was able to find one of them. But after renting a metal detector and a lot of BEEPS. He finally called someone that could help. after about 45 minutes I was able to find the ring and he was very happy with the results.
I got a call from a woman in distress from lauderdale by the sea beach. She said that she lost her wedding platinum wedding band in the sand . I rushed to meet her there . after about 10 minutes searching I found her ring she was so completely happy that I was able to find her ring.
Old News Is GOOD News!
No news is good news is the all familiar proverb many of us use day to day to reassure us that without information to the contrary we can assume all is well. This wasn’t the case tho with this nice, pictured couple after they searched for his lost ring last week while he was installing a vent on their garage roof. Just below the roof there’s an attic area for storage. He was in 3 different areas in the space moving things around on the joists to make room to install the vent plus walking back and forth to the house. We talked Thursday and agreed to meet today to search.
When I got to the garage it was indeed a tight chamber with no room for both of us. I could just barely get into the area by crawling. Armed with my dust mask, goggles, Garrett carrot and a portable light I couldn’t see directly into the floor joists where he thought it was so I probed with the pin pointer and found lots of nails. The material I was searching thru felt very light and the musty aroma upon entering the chamber reminded me of when I look thru old research materials…I thought hmmm… and as I sifted a bit more I got another signal. Thinking it was a nail I reached down and felt the shape of a ring! Getting myself over the joist with the camera revealed this gorgeous white gold ring that was covered with old newspaper insulation!
I yelled I got it, backed myself out and handed the ring with some of the newspaper to him and said, old news is good news! We both laughed, dusted ourselves off and took some pics.
Jon
I got a call to find a 24 Karat 44 gm gold nugget. It was used in a contest . The contest was to find the gold nugget in any of the 6 .. 1 ton burlap bags of dirt. Unfortunately the client couldn’t find the nugget in the 1 ton burlap bag they knew it to be in after no contestants could find it . So I went to the commercial location where the nugget was at and attempted to find it with my metal detector. but the nails in the pallet interfered and also the writing on the bags interfered. So the client had to take it to a different site so we could dump all the dirt out. once we could dump the dirt out it was found very quickly
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