My friend Joanna is the Goddess of small lost things. I am her understudy. Last Spring when I was doing some gardening I lost my glasses. I didn’t miss them until I came back inside, so had no idea in which part of the garden I’d lost them. They were not my good glasses, just a pair of magnifying glasses I take travelling with me, in case my good glasses are broken or lost, which they were (broken) on a trip last year. But I like them, and I wanted them back!
My husband walks to his desk at the Uni every day, mostly to work in a bit of exercise to his daily routine, but also to leave the car for me since I’m the one who does most of the shopping and errands.
This morning, about fifteen minutes after he left, he returned. His glasses were missing from his face! He looked genuinely bewildered and told me the following… ‘The flies and honey bees were particularly bad along the footpath where a bush is in blossom. I raised my hand to shoo them away and hit my glasses and knocked them off my face and into the grass, or somewhere, and I can’t find them. A lady who was passing by tried to help me and neither of us could find them.’
I quickly ate my last few bites of breakfast and said I would go back with him to look. His glasses are very expensive, and this particular pair took them three tries to get right, so we had a bit invested in them already!
We drove the car so that I could take him on to Uni for an early appointment, and then bring the car home with me so he could walk home this afternoon (he’s very dedicated). The grass was recently clipped, and you would have thought, should easily reveal a pair of metal glasses. But of course, when you wear glasses, it is hard to see without them, though he does have good long distance vision even without them.
At the risk of jinxing any future good fortunes…within a few seconds I had spotted them. As opposed to my own lost glasses last year, it was a piece of cake. We knew within a few feet, where they had to be. Before he picked them up I said ‘WAIT, I want a photo to show Joanna!’
Afterward, we drove around near the Uni and I let him out of the car near the path he likes to use as a cut through. He called out as I was about to drive off and I looked up, to see him laughing and holding a large fork he had just found on the ground.
Feeling done, dear?
Or just forked??
–Ardys
In case you couldn’t see them, I’ve cropped the portion of the photo with the glasses… xxx
Even cropping the picture didn’t help Ardys, and I’ve got my glasses on.
xxx Hugs Galore xxx
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I should have enlarged the photo, will try and do that later… needing to do a software update that will take a little while before I can manage that task.
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I think you are now officially one of the Pantheon of Godesses specialising in Glasses! – Hehe ! I am reading your post chuckling away waiting at the dentist’s for a checkup. I have no glasses on and my phone so I absolutely cannot see them in your photos but wll look again when I am home xx
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Why thank you my Goddess on High! I’m sure you couldn’t see them on a phone, I even had trouble showing them to Don when he asked how the photo turned out!
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Ha ha good one, Ardys! It must be my fertile imagination, or else I am getting carried away with the challenge of the exercise, because I thought I had spotted TWO pairs! (The leaf on the upper left hand side is pointing straight to it.)
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Only one pair, Betty, and the leaf is deceiving you… glasses are on the right hand side of the photo, in the middle. Even surprised myself how easily I spotted them as they are very hard to see.
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Just imagining this gives me a chuckle. Score. Honey bees and flies = 1. Don = 0.
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I think the most amusing part was the look of doubt on his face when I stated I could help find the glasses, and then the look of shock on his face when I found them so fast! I told him ‘I have skills’.
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This was truly entertaining – and gave my brain it’s much needed sleuthing exercise today. I love ‘I Spy’ games, but even more so with the added challenge of hidden layers. Kinda makes you feel like you really accomplished something when finding it.
Great story, Ardys. And a perfect picture!
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