Actually, I’m missing one of these, along with about 14 or 15 inches of 1/4 inch grade 5 chain and an S hook.
It all started earlier this spring.
We have a pole out by the pool where we hang a new Boston fern every spring. This year Honey decided that she wanted one of those upside-down tomato planters instead, so off we went to Home Depot for one of these:
Ours looked just like that except our tomato plant only hung about four inches below the planter, and it was trying to wrap itself around the bottom of the planter and grow up like a normal tomato. That, and ours only has one green tomato and a few blooms.
Sometime Thursday night, we had a large dead limb – probably leftover Hurricane Ike damage - fall from very high up in an oak tree. It took out another large (about 3 inch diameter) branch on the way down, and they both hit the tomato planter. We awoke yesterday morning to find the ruined planter on the ground in a pile of debris underneath the two oak limbs.
Surprisingly, the tomato itself was no worse for wear; I transplanted it to a large flower pot and it already seems happier. Even more amazing was the fact that the chain and associated hardware that were holding up the planter are simply gone.
Honey and I both searched the entire area, I got out my big magnetic tool finder – a four-inch magnet mounted on a hoe handle – and walked the grid with it. We looked up in the tree and down in the pool and I even scoured the azaleas outside the fence; it just isn’t here.
At this point I’m thinking that maybe extraterrestrials stole the chain and broke the limbs off making their getaway; Stephen Hawking does warn that they might be dangerous. Yeah, either that or it’s disappearance is the result of Global Warming.
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