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.
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