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I got home Saturday evening at 8:30 pm and discovered I had missed a text about a lost ring.  I immediately called to get the full story.  Samantha stated that she had placed her rings and jewelry on her lap and forgot they were there.  She, her husband and son stopped at a local McDonald’s; when  she got out, forgetting about the rings, and inadvertently the rings fell off her lap and onto the pavement.  She did not realize she had lost them until she got home about 80 miles away.

On Saturday, her husband discovered the “Ringfinders of Maine” website and Dennis Boothby. They contacted him and  Dennis recommended they contact me [Thank you Dennis!].

Samantha  sent me a text.

 

 

The rings were lost at 3:30 Friday afternoon. Snow started at 9:00 pm that night.  By the time she contacted me the following day, the lot had been plowed.

I arrived at the McDonald’s the following morning [Sunday] at first light [6:30] and spoke with the manager.  They had received her messages and no one had turned in any rings. They were very agreeable to my searching the parking lot and have my and Samantha’s contact information should the second ring show up.

I first searched the left hand snowbank and came up with pennies, dimes and miscellaneous trash.

 

I then searched the right hand snowbank with similar findings and finally up came the engagement ring !!

I searched and researched that bank [it really wasn’t that big]… and could not come up with the second ring. Being 8 degrees outside and having been searching for an hour or so, I was pretty cold.  I texted Samantha and let her know that I had one ring and for now was done with the search.

Throughout the day that Sunday,  I kept pondering what could have happened to the second ring?? Around two that afternoon, I realized we were getting another snowstorm Monday.  Hence, if I was going to search more, it had to be done now.  Thinking the round wedding ring could have perhaps rolled to a different area and been plowed to a different location, I searched the entire parking lot and snowbanks.  To no avail, no second ring. Perhaps someone had picked it up, perhaps it’s deep in a snowbank [some of the snowbanks are 6 feet tall!].

After the storm on Monday, the plow folks will be hauling the snow off site and if the ring is in it, will most likely never be found.I am hoping to contact the plow company and find out where they haul the snow. Perhaps it is a place that will be searchable in the spring.

I contacted Samantha — she  and her husband were happy and ecstactic that they had the one ring and made arrangements to meet me and pick it up.

 

2/22/26

Late last night I got an SOS call from a fellow who had lost his wedding band the night before at the start of a heavy snowstorm. I could tell he was very upset and I told him I could meet him early this morning.

He had stopped at a electric vehicle charging station and plugged in his car for a little while and thought that he had heard something, but didn’t pay much attention to it. Later he realized his ring wasn’t on his finger. That’s when he knew what that noise was that he had heard.

I drove to his beautiful town, nestled in the snowy mountains at the junction of at least three gap roads. I met him and his daughter at the charging station, he parked his car in the same spot and described how he had lost it. We got the metal detectors ready and I said why don’t we do the parking lot first even though it had been plowed. As soon as we started the search, he let out a little shriek. Pressed into the ice at his feet he saw his ring!! The ice had protected his ring from the plow. 

Miracles happen! The snowplow had been back again and plowed the snowbanks even higher. He was gonna give up until spring, but then he saw my ad. When I saw the snowbanks, I thought for sure this was going to require a return search in the Spring. What a nice ending to the search and he’s going to get his ring resized for the cold weather!

2/21/26

Got a message last night from a man who has had the worst luck lately. Last night he was brushing off his car in the middle of a snowstorm. When he shook some of the snow off of his hands, he felt his wedding ring go flying. He searched as much as he could, in the heavy snow, with no luck.

It’s a really cool 14K ring and the outer part spins. It also matches his spouses ring. He had just gotten it because about two weeks ago he lost his first wedding ring in the snow!

So I went down to his house this morning and he showed me the area that he thought it should be in. I took about three swings with the metal detector and got the gold signal. It was under about 6 inches of fluffy snow and about 3 inches of packed snow. Success!!!

Then he showed me the area that his first ring might be in. We did a quick search, but the chances of finding this one were very slim right now due to plows that have been there and high snowbanks. No luck. If he doesn’t find his ring in the Spring, I will go give it a try again.