In October of last year the Missus was complaining that she was getting so skinny that her engagement ring was trying to slip from her finger.
We thought no more about it until early in November after returning from an evening walk she exclaimed in dismay that her engagement ring was no longer on her finger!
When we were on the walk, I thought I heard something 'ting' as we were crossing an intersection. I had looked down at the street at the time but didn't see anything. After she told me about the missing ring, I retraced our route but didn't see anything. I tried again the next day but still didn't find it.
We put up signs in the neighborhood, visited the Sheriff's office in case someone found it and turned it in and I even went to the local pawn shop and notified them to call me if someone brought it in but no luck.
I was still working at the city at that time and the sewer guys told me that they found lots of jewelry in the sewers when cleaning them out which they promptly took to the local pawn shop. Wonder if that is why Ed Norton stuck with being a sewer worker instead of getting a job with Ralph's bus line? But I digress...
This afternoon the Missus suddenly called that she had good news to share. She was busy putting up Halloween decorations around the house and when she pulled one of them out its box, her engagement ring was attached to the decoration! The decoration hangs from a large spring and that is what her ring was attached to. How did that happen? Poltergeists perhaps? It was a Halloween decoration after all.
What was lost is now found, so the line in the song "Amazing Grace" goes, and it was amazing that the ring showed up again!
Never despair, what is lost may be found again, whether it is a ring or something else less tangible. I am a believer now.
We thought no more about it until early in November after returning from an evening walk she exclaimed in dismay that her engagement ring was no longer on her finger!
When we were on the walk, I thought I heard something 'ting' as we were crossing an intersection. I had looked down at the street at the time but didn't see anything. After she told me about the missing ring, I retraced our route but didn't see anything. I tried again the next day but still didn't find it.
We put up signs in the neighborhood, visited the Sheriff's office in case someone found it and turned it in and I even went to the local pawn shop and notified them to call me if someone brought it in but no luck.
I was still working at the city at that time and the sewer guys told me that they found lots of jewelry in the sewers when cleaning them out which they promptly took to the local pawn shop. Wonder if that is why Ed Norton stuck with being a sewer worker instead of getting a job with Ralph's bus line? But I digress...
This afternoon the Missus suddenly called that she had good news to share. She was busy putting up Halloween decorations around the house and when she pulled one of them out its box, her engagement ring was attached to the decoration! The decoration hangs from a large spring and that is what her ring was attached to. How did that happen? Poltergeists perhaps? It was a Halloween decoration after all.
What was lost is now found, so the line in the song "Amazing Grace" goes, and it was amazing that the ring showed up again!
Never despair, what is lost may be found again, whether it is a ring or something else less tangible. I am a believer now.
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