Concord Mills, NC – Lost wedding ring cleaning garden – FOUND!
Received text message Tuesday asking if I could help find her husbands wedding band. I advised could help tomorrow afternoon as would be in area and another ring finder services that area. She is out of town and timing is perfect husband contacted another but wasn’t available for a few days. Story is that husband was cleaning garden and while tossing bad tomatoes over the fence he realized his ring was missing. I advised I would arrive at 6:30 and would text when enroute and again at 10 minutes out.
Arrived at their home and husband led me to the garden area and reenacted his work pattern of throwing with left hand backwards over the fence. I searched the immediate area and V pattern towards to fence. Negative results…. Relocated to outside of fence and began search carefully from fence and 10 feet back. This was a little more difficult because of small trees and overgrowth. After 10 minutes working across the fence line I heard the desired tone and visually spotted the ring at the base of a tree. I retrieved the ring and handed to its owner whom was very happy.
Conversation following the recovery, owner admitted he had purchased a metal detector locally and searched without success. Said « the thing just made a lot of noises ». He then described purchasing a pen pointer off Amazon and searching following an online search suggestion. Great that he tried himself and fortunate the area was in his property but had it been in a public space the delay and prolonged time laying on the ground a stranger could have just happened by and found it and gained a new ring to his loss. Absolutely nothing better that the big smiles folks make when their items are found and returned.
