April 4, 2017. Madison, Mississippi. Where Can It Be?

Both Ken and I remember buying a bottle of stuff when we bought the fountain.  The instructions from the owner was to use it on a regular basis.  Of course, we forgot.    When we arrived here from Mexico, Ken noticed algae in the fountain so he looked on line to order a bottle,  but fortunately, he remembered.  We talked and both agreed.  We bought a bottle and it must still be in the house.

Ken looked in all the reasonable places.  Then he searched in the ridiculous places but no avail.  He could not find that bottle.  We have several drawers and cabinets that are empty so he searched again but this time in every empty drawers and cabinets along with everyplace else.  And I looked.  I looked in the places I felt sure we would have put that stupid bottle but my best efforts were in vain.  I could not find that bottle.  Ken was ready to give up and order another bottle, which was not such a big deal as the cost of a new bottle came to $12.  He decided to wait another day.

In the middle of the night, Ken came to the kitchen to clean out his ears with warm vinegar.  He keeps his stuff beside the sink.  He turned on the lights right over the sink.  They are bright and we seldom turn on those lights.   In plain sight, on the counter beside the coffee maker was the lost bottle.   All along, our lost bottle was in plain view.  We remembered the conversation about where we should put that bottle so we would remember but neither of us recalled putting the bottle beside the door to the garage.   Ken had searched the garage and workshop.  We think what happened was that Ken intended to keep the bottle in his workshop and put it by the back door but it never moved.  Now we are keeping it there for the next time.    It is a marvel to me how we actually saw that bottle every day but we never saw it.    It was hiding in plain view.