On Saturday, January 21st, 86-year-old Jose was in his backyard whittling a piece of wood to make a ground stake for a small solar light. At some point during his whittling, his wedding band from 1975 came off his finger. On the following day, he tells the story to his son-in-law Julio about his lost ring. It just so happens that Julio is a friend and former colleague of mine and knows about my detecting. He tells him, “You won’t need to buy another ring, I know just the man for the job to find your lost one”. Julio texts me on Sunday afternoon and I tell him that I can swing by during the week. I had intended to go yesterday but I got complicated and moved the recovery for today.
I went right after work today to try and find the ring. Heading west, I had forgotten how terrible traffic could be, even before 3 o’clock!
It took me 45 minutes to get there. When I arrived, he took me to the backyard and showed me where he thought he had lost it. I had taken Noxy, my pin-pointer and my digger. (I didn’t think I would need my digger though). I got to work, and like most people that lose rings, it’s never where they think. I can’t tell you how many things in the small area that I was covering gave off gold readings, but I stuck to my plan of only using the detector and the pin-pointer and searching the immediate surface. About 25 minutes later, I get a solid 14/15 on Noxy out of the target area and around the back corner of the house. I take out my pin-pointer and feel through the small little broadleaf weeds and feel a hard circular object that I pluck up and 
. My job was done! This is my 2nd attempted backyard recovery but only my 1st successful one. I called Jose who had gone to pick up his wife from work and he could not believe that I had found it. He told me to get the bottle of wine that he had left for me in the kitchen. If he had offered, I wouldn’t have accepted money, but a bottle of wine and the pics with the recovered ring is payment enough. (That bottle of wine helped me when I got home to recover from dealing with Miami traffic!) This will count as my 4th gold for me in January and I am having a great start to 2023! 
I went right after work today to try and find the ring. Heading west, I had forgotten how terrible traffic could be, even before 3 o’clock!
It took me 45 minutes to get there. When I arrived, he took me to the backyard and showed me where he thought he had lost it. I had taken Noxy, my pin-pointer and my digger. (I didn’t think I would need my digger though). I got to work, and like most people that lose rings, it’s never where they think. I can’t tell you how many things in the small area that I was covering gave off gold readings, but I stuck to my plan of only using the detector and the pin-pointer and searching the immediate surface. About 25 minutes later, I get a solid 14/15 on Noxy out of the target area and around the back corner of the house. I take out my pin-pointer and feel through the small little broadleaf weeds and feel a hard circular object that I pluck up and . My job was done! This is my 2nd attempted backyard recovery but only my 1st successful one. I called Jose who had gone to pick up his wife from work and he could not believe that I had found it. He told me to get the bottle of wine that he had left for me in the kitchen. If he had offered, I wouldn’t have accepted money, but a bottle of wine and the pics with the recovered ring is payment enough. (That bottle of wine helped me when I got home to recover from dealing with Miami traffic!) This will count as my 4th gold for me in January and I am having a great start to 2023! Attachments
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That's really a neat ring also, rare to see them modern and inscribed. 
Having first started off as a dirt and tot lot digger, I can tell you that I find doing a backyard much more difficult. I wonder what I would do for 2 bottles of wine too! 
...unless they are high K, at least 100 years old, and they fit this pirate
