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Monday early afternoon August 4th 2025.  I get a call from Erin who is very upset.  Understandably so as she just lost her engagement ring on Nantasket beach in Hull, MA.   Not only did her future husband give it to her but its the same ring that her deceased father gave to Erins mother.   She lost it in the sand by her beach chair.  I told her not to move anything and i am on my way.

I got to the beach and parked right near where Erin sent me her location.   The first thing I did was give Erin a hug and said don’t worry I’m gonna find your ring.  She had been crying and was very upset.  She said she placed it on the arm of her chair to put sun block on.  stepped away for a minute or two and when she went back to the chair it was gone.   She searched and went through the sand but couldn’t find it.   She did the right thing she called a ringfinder right away.  After listening to her and her friend I started detecting.  Within 2 minutes I heard that sound I wanted to hear, used my sand scoop flipped the sand out and there it was this absolutely stunning diamond yellow gold ring.

I handed the ring to her and she was jumping for joy with the biggest smile.(you can tell by the photo how over joyed she was)  It was a crowded beach day so all the people around her knew what was happening and all of them were clapping and smiling for Erin.    Her girlfriends were around, wearing all their gold so I gave them all a lecture about wearing your valuable jewelry to the beach  Its a NO NO!!!!

It was a beautiful Sunday August 3, 2025.  I got a call from Joe who was out walking his dog in a wooded path area near his home.  While on the walk they wandered off the path a little so his dog could find that special spot to do his business.  Wellllllll he disturbed an under ground yellow jacket nest.   Ohhh boy, Joe started waving his arms in every direction trying to ward off the bee attack on both him and his dog.   He ran further up the path and stopped to swat more bees off his dog and himself.  They continues to swat and walk down the path til there were no more bees following them.  When Joe stopped to assess the damage from the bees he noticed his wedding ring was missing.   He traced his steps a couple times with his wife trying to find the ring, but no luck.

When I got to the meeting spot  Joe filled me in on the all that had happened.  He explained he had a few spots he thought it might be.  1. the first encounter with the bees.  2. after running and swinging his arms the first spot he stopped .  3. the second spot he stopped where he swatted the remaining bees off  and  noticed his ring was missing.

We got to spot 1.  Good no bees flying around.  Joe showed me where the bees came at them.  I just started swinging my machine in the area being careful not to hit the ground.   I asked joe if he could give me a perimeter of where the ring may be in.  As he was doing that he must have found the nest as bees started swarming.  Joe started running around swatting away, flailing his arms.  At least I got to see first hand how that ring came off.   I thought to myself heck this ring could be anywhere!!!!  as we continued on the path he showed me all 3 spots.

We were in spot number 3 when I told Joe to go home and wait for my text as this could take awhile. After about an hour of detecting the path and about 2 feet off each side of the path I was heading to number 2 spot.  Praying I don’t have to detect spot 1  for obvious reasons.   I got to spot 2 and after about 1 1/2  hours of total detecting time there it was under a pile of leaves on the side of the pathway.   I was so happy to see that gold band.

I text Joe to meet me at the car.  Him and his very nice wife came together, I handed Joe his ring.  He put it on his finger and smiled big   He said « lots of memories, and while its just a ring its very nice to feel it back on my finger again ».  We laughed at the search and the running from the bees then I was off.  I completely forgot to take a picture of Joe with his ring on.   He was kind enough to send one to me from  his house in front of his wedding portrait.   fun hunt!!!

Joes dog, Joe and I all had a few stings but all is good.

Lauren reached out to me on a hot Monday morning.   She had a family cookout on Sunday at her home in Medfield MA, where her husband lost his MIT class ring.  She said her husband was playing ball with the grandkids and believes this is when he lost the ring.   It could be in the grassy back yard or with the throwing motion the ring could have gone into the woods bordering the back yard.   I told her I’m on my way.

When I got to Medfield we chatted about what her husband did during the day and she showed me all the areas he had been in . Some activity in the front yard but most was in the back.  As I got my detecting equipment out of the car she asked if there was anything she could do to help.   If answered, you can go in the house and stay cool as it was close to 90 degrees out or I have an extra machine if you want to give it a go with me.    She smiled and said she would detect.  I gave her the machine, ran a gold ring under it so she knew what she would hear and see.  I gave her a quick lesson on swinging, handed her a pinpointer and off we went to the back yard.

I started at one end of the yard and Lauren on the other.  An hour went by and nothing, lots of targets in the yard but no ring.   As we met kind of in the middle we took a little break of some well deserved ice water.  I got back to it and went over the area Lauren was in. After about 30 minutes I heard that nice sound I was waiting for, bent over with the pinpointer and there in a higher clump of grass was this big beautiful gold beaver ring.  I brought it over to Lauren who was still detecting,  she said,  I was just in  that area with the detector, and my who family searched the yard with our eyes but we couldn’t find it.

It would have been awesome to see Lauren pull that big gold ring out of the grass but in the end I was just happy that it was found.   Her husband had been wearing this ring for 40+ years so it was nice for him to have it back on his finger.

I received call from Loni on Sunday June 14th 2025.  The day before she lost her wedding and engagement ring during a workout class in Norwell MA.  She told me she did what she has been doing for the past 6 years before her running workout, « tie both her rings  into her sneaker shoestrings ».  Her gym was located in an industrial park so this is where her running took place.  She sent me a detailed map of her running route and told me her workout friends walked the route and did an eye search of the pavement roadway and the grassy curbed sides.  No luck.  She then contacted another detectorist to do the search.  Still no rings.  So I told her I will give it a try.

She couldn’t meet me but I went to the area with my detailed map and started my search. After a couple hours of detecting the grassy edging of the road and walking the spot she thought she lost it I decided to go to the area she had noticed it was gone (where she and friends did the eye searched.)   I was using my detector on the road as it was not a smooth asphalt road.  Sure enough I got a nice sound and there it was, this beautiful gold ring with diamonds on it!   I smiled and continued.  Then about 5 feet away I found its mate just as pretty.

I called Loni and she met me with a big smile.  It made me smile to see her joy as she put those rings back on her finger.  I also discovered it was her birthday.   It was a true Happy Birthday.