Sunday, November 26, 2017

Guess What I Found!

I've been searching for my lost mitts, and it was really beginning to bug me because the beige pair were my favorites. I got in my car yesterday to head to the alpaca farm, spied my ice scraper, and all of a sudden I knew were they were.


This is a cupboard in our barn where John stores car stuff (complete with help from the kids the first time we painted the barn.)


One morning a few weeks ago I went out to my car and discovered I needed to scrape the windshield. Somehow my good scraper had gotten put away, so I needed to look for it. I was carrying my mitts, set them on the pile of barn gloves when I opened the cupboard (see them there on the top, just to the right of the red oil funnel?), grabbed my scraper, closed the cupboard, scraped the windshield, and went on my way, leaving my mitts just where I had put them.


I know there's no frost on the windshield in this photo, but I was thrilled to find my mitts and put them on immediately. There was enough light for a photo and I liked the reflection, so I wanted to celebrate their glorious return.

It made my day to finally remember where I had put them, and finding them almost made up for the fact that I had carelessly misplaced them and forgotten where for a few weeks. My blue pair is still missing, but I have high hopes they'll show up in some slightly interesting place.

17 comments:

  1. Oh, YES!!!! It's so very satisfying when you find your missing item -- right where you left it. Of course. When it comes right down to it! XOXO

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  2. We can all relate! I hope the blue mitts turn up soon just where you left them.

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  3. I'm so glad you found your mitts! There is something so uplifting to that "aha" moment when you realize where a lost object must be. I frequently misplace things, and I love that moment when I realize that I haven't totally lost it yet. Now you can re-prioritize that knitting queue without suffering cold hands!

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    1. That's exactly how I felt when that "aha" moment struck! As soon as I saw my ice scraper in the car, my memory kicked in, and re-prioritization of the knitting queue happened very soon after my happy dance in the driveway!

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  4. So glad you found your mitts. I'm missing my favorite pair of mittens. If they don't turn up, I'll have to reknit them!

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    1. I did a happy dance, right in the middle of the driveway! Now I'm crossing my fingers that your mittens show up!

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  5. Glad you found them! My theory is the Time Thieves took them by mistake, realized their error and put them back! Hey, why not!
    Cheers~

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  6. Yahoo!! I love how our memories can be triggered like that!

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  7. One mystery solved - miracles in our time!

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  8. Ha! I thought they would turn up in some interesting place. Now for the next pair to show themselves.

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  9. yay!!! and maybe now that you have them the mornings will be uncharacteristically warm and you won't need to scrape the windshields :-)

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  10. I just knew you would find them eventually! thank goodness they were not lost out in the world :)

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  11. Yay! Here's hoping you don't need them again too soon!

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  12. I am especially glad that no mice found your mitts and decided they would made most excellent nesting material. Not that that has ever happened to me. Nope.

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