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Missing engagement ring found 13 years later wrapped around carrot
Mary Grams was able to hide the loss of the husband by buying a wearing similar looking one
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However, she was dumbfounded over a decade later when the ring was found wrapped around carrot in her family garden.
It was her daughter -in -law who uprooted a weird-looking carrot from the garden, with a diamond ring tightly wrapped around it, to the surprise of everybody.
Mary Grams who is currently 84 years said “I went to the garden for something and I saw this long weed. For some reason, I picked it up and it must have caught on something and pulled [the ring] off,” she recounts the day she lost her engagement ring, in 2004.
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Before it got missing, Mary Grams had worn it on her finger since 1951, a year before she married her husband, Norman.
She said “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.”
Shockingly, she revealed to CBC Canada that she never told her husband about the lost the ring. Instead, she bought a similar-looking ring, with the hope that her husband would not notice it.
“I didn’t tell him, even, because I thought for sure he’d give me heck or something,”
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Even though at one point, Mary and her family moved to Camrose, they still had a garden at the old farm, near Armena, which has been in her family for 105 years.
Just about a week ago, when her daughter- in -law was harvesting carrots from the garden, she noticed a strange one that looked like a big fat finger wearing a very tight ring, only to realise that the carrot had been wearing Mary Grams ring all the while.
Coleen Daley, Mary Gram’s in-law said “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
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“If you look at it, it grew perfectly around the [ring]. It was pretty weird looking,” Daley added saying “I’ve never seen anything like that. It was quite interesting.”
Guess what, the happy but shocked Mary Grams said “I’m going to wear it because it still fits,” she said after successfully hiding the loss from her husband over the years.
It is reported that, in 2011, a Swedish woman was also in the news for having found her lost ring 16 years later wrapped around carrot in her garden.
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