I woke up to an email from Rickey. It said that he lost his wedding ring on Sunday while playing basketball. I wrote back, and he called me. We set up to do a search later that day after work. 

We met at the courts, and he explained that he put his phone under his mother’s chair and put his ring on top of the phone. This was in the grass, which was 4 -5 inches long and thick. The ring is black & silver titanium. He said his 2-year-old son picked up the phone to give it to his daddy. He said he spent about 4 hours looking for it but was giving up hope that it would be found. 

He showed me the area that he thought his mom’s chair was in. I said I would start searching a little farther away and work my way to where he thought it was. Being around a basketball court, there were a lot of metal objects in the area. I was looking for a surface sound. I could tell there were a lot of coins, bottle caps & pull tabs around. I will go back another time to clean out the coins. 

It only took about 10 minutes for me to get the sound I was looking for. I bent down and spread the grass to see his ring. I picked it up and showed him. The look on his face was priceless. He told me that he had been in the dog house since he lost the ring. Hopefully, this will make things better. 

I love my hobby!!

Had an unexpected trip to Lewes, Delaware, this morning. Jessica called me yesterday asking if I could help her find her family heirloom engagement ring. It was her grandmother’s. She lost it 3 weeks ago while helping her husband build a vinyl fence. I asked the usual questions: why do you think it is in the yard, how big is the yard (¾ acre), what is the ring made of (platinum). I said I could travel down on Sunday morning if she doesn’t find it tonight. 

I told her when it gets dark, turn off all of the lights in the yard and then search the area with a flashlight. Hopefully, they would see the sparkle of the diamonds. No luck.

I arrived around 8 a.m., and they were waiting for me outside. Jessica showed me the area. The grass is really thick, and it was recently cut with the clipping still on the grass. Making it impossible to see using the flashlight trick. 

I got started, and the only sounds I was getting were sprinkler heads. After about 15 minutes, I got a good tone. I spread the grass apart, and I saw a silver circle; it was Jessica’s ring, but it was totally embedded in the dirt. Either it was stepped on, or the lawn tractor ran over it, pushing it into the ground. The flashlight trick wouldn’t work for this reason either, as the diamonds were covered in mud.

I took a few pictures and made it look like it wasn’t the ring. After a few minutes, I knocked on the door, and Jessica answered. I asked her a few more questions about where she thought the ring could be. While she was looking around thinking, I held up her ring. She continued to think and talk. After a minute or so, she finally saw the ring. She screamed! The look on her face was priceless. We took some pictures, and then I started my trek home. 

I love my hobby!