rediscovering some personal history

Back at the beginning of this project I found an autoharp tuner which I supposed was the tuner that accompanied our family autoharp that I brought with me to Israel. After that tuner had its moment of fame I had no use for it. I also had no reason to think that it wasn't the real thing. The tuner featured here, however, may well be the one that accompanied the now totally dysfunctional autoharp whose whereabouts weren't clear to me then, but has since been found. I found the tuner while rummaging through a box of items that had been stored away in the boidem. Of course it doesn't really matter which is the true tuner, but it's rather confusing to discover that I had two.

The same box that held the tuner also held this small piece of history - a curtain loop that in what seems like a totally different life once had other uses. I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that I'd saved this small item, even though I'd forgotten it completely. On the other hand, after finding it again I promptly dropped in on the lawn and almost didn't succeed in finding it again.

And that, of course, raises an interesting question. If something like thirty years passed without my thinking about it, why, after finding it and then misplacing it again, did I feel the need to spend ten minutes crawling over the lawn trying to find it.