Alex left for La Veta today, and no surprise to anyone, she left me with a to do list.  My main job was to clean off the bookshelves above the garage door.  We are replacing the old broken door with a new rollup style.  These doors cannot have a book shelf above them.  While putting books aside for the library or the trash, I found an interesting item.  It had an inlaid wooden book cover.  Inside was the following:

Alex, do you remember what this was? 

Okay, I cleaned off the bookshelf, I didn't throw out the wooden book and  I fed the cat,

so where did you hide the remote?