Found!

 

Our house has been in a bit of a tizzy this week as busylizzy has lost her backup pair of glasses. She has been recalling her every step for the last few days, and turning the house up-side-down, searching for the glasses, the case, and the clip-ons. Never having misplaced anything in my life (yuck yuck), I could not understand how one could lose a pair of glasses. But they were gone and have been for a few days.

 

Fast forward to yesterday afternoon when we were coming home from a wonderful Sunday afternoon walk. We were at the top of our street, a block away from home, when I spotted a pair of glasses, neatly folded and sitting on the edge of a brick retaining wall, covered in dew. I commented and pointed them out to busylizzy and she stared at them for a moment and then bent to pick them up. She did not say anything, but cleaned them and put them on. Yes, they were hers, in wonderful shape, undamaged.

 

As we were trying to unwrap the mystery, we slowly walked home and pondered over the whereabouts of the case and the clip-on sunglasses. We stood at the head of our driveway and were trying to re-enact how her glasses could have wandered off like that, when she spotted the case on the grassy edge of our driveway. The clip-on were still in the case. All was intact. Only the day before I had blown the leaves and needles from the driveway exactly where the case was, and never saw it. It is bright silver against the green grass.  

 

How do these mysteries happen?

 

I blame old age.

 

I told her that after having found her brother's gold wedding band on a cement retaining wall this summer, and now her glasses on a brick ledge, she must be living life on the ledge. Let's just not fall off because of our new found infirmities.