She thought she would never see the ring again.
A woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago has found it again – wrapped around a carrot.
Mary Grams thought the ring was gone for good after she noticed it was missing in September 2004.
But her daughter in law managed to find the ring this week – when she plucked a carrot from the soil on the family’s farm.
Mrs Grams told CBC that she recognised the ring right away.
She explained that she thought she lost the ring pulling a large weed from the garden.
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She added:
“We looked high and low on our hands and knees.
“We couldn’t find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it.”
She had owned the ring since 1951, a year before she married her husband Norman.
But after it went missing, she quickly replaced it.
She said:
“I didn’t tell him, even, because I thought for sure he’d give me heck or something.”
And while Mrs Grams no longer lives in the area, the family still own the farm and maintain a garden there.
Her daughter in law Colleen Daley came across the ring this week when she was doing some gardening.
Mrs Daley said:
“‘I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law, because no other women have lived on that farm.
“I asked my husband if he recognized the ring. And he said yeah.
“His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot.
“I’ve never seen anything like that. It was quite interesting.”
Mrs Grams said she would be wearing her original ring once again because it still fits.
