Posted by JB(MS) on 9/11/2009, 6:36 pm
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But the one I found today takes the cake. About 9 o,clock this morning I got a call from one of the coaches at the high school. He reminded me that I had told the coaches, and other school officials, that if anyone lost a ring around the school or athletic fields that all they had to do was call and I would look for it, and wanted to know if I would look for one that wasn't lost at those places. I said yes and he told me he lost his wedding band Monday while bush hogging a shooting lane on the land the hunting club he belongs to rents, and said he would be by at 1:30 to show me where it was lost. I followed him about 7 or 8 miles east of town, turned on a narrow graveled road for a mile or so and then turned onto what is basically a rough dirt logging road with grown up woods on both sides.
A mile or so down the logging road we stopped and left our pickups by a big metal gate. We walked around the gate, and then least a half mile down what is basically a path barely wide enough a small tractor and bush hog could go down. He had disced up a place to put bait, and then bush hogged a shooting lane and in the process mowed over an inground yellow jacket nest. In the process of trying unsuccessfully to beat the wasps off he had slung his wedding band off his finger. Some of the grass he didn't get cut was almost two feet deep and hard to hunt in but one good thing, there wasn't much metal in the ground. He and some other guy who had a detector hunted for the ring yesterday but couldn't find it, but while I got hot and scratched up from the briars it only took the Goldtrax maybe 45 minutes to find the ring. He was tickled pink, and tried to give me $100. I refused the money so he said he was bringing me a bunch of stuff tomorrow and whether I wanted it or not he was leaving it. I didn't take a camera, but if he doesn't mind I'll get a photo of him and the ring when he comes tomorrow.
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