I LOVE a mystery! I may have read a Nancy Drew or two growing up. I also love presents…I mean…who doesn’t, right? So imagine my glee when I came home the other day to find a beautiful basket full of fresh garden vegetables on my front step. As I love homegrown produce but suck at gardening, I’m always thrilled when people pass their veggie overflow my way.

But who left it?

This basket was lovely with big mesh bow. It was overflowing with potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, beets, squash and zucchini. Lucky me? Hell ya. The one thing it didn’t have – a note. This posted a dilemma for me. I really wanted to personally thank my generous mystery gifter, (be a good receiver: https://dainabenson.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/are-you-gifted/ ) but I get that sometimes people want to give a gift anonymously.

Hmmm…what to do?

My decision? I would use my near expert sleuthing skills learned by Nancy Drew and too many episodes of Elementary to find the clues, run down leads, catalogue the evidence and eventually track my mystery gifter…very exciting…

I may be embellishing the story a little. By sleuthing I mean I sent a text out to the top 8 people on my list of suspects and posted a general thanks on Facebook. But admit it – this is as exciting as produce related mysteries can get.

The second coolest part of this experience (first being my FANTASTIC basket of goodies…) was the response I got from my Facebook post and my texts. It seems everyone loves a mystery. I received messages all afternoon from curious friends who wanted updates on my veggie gifter. Did I find him/her? Did I have any clues? Was I going to share my goodies?  So Fun!

In the end my mystery gifter confessed and I was able to give her a huge thanks. My family enjoyed every delicious bite from that basket and we are all inspired to pay it forward. I hope this motivates some secret generosity in everyone – who do you know that would enjoy a little random kindness?

Thanks Veggie Faerie for the inspiration – there may be some goodies in store for you!

Xo

Daina