Woman finds long-lost diamond ring on
carrot in garden
A Canadian
woman got an extra carrot with her diamond ring when it was found in her
vegetable patch 13 years after she lost it.
Mary Grams,
84, was devastated when she lost the ring while weeding on the family farm in
Alberta in 2004.
But she had
kept the ring's loss a secret from all but her son for more than a decade.
On Monday,
her daughter-in-law discovered the secret - and the ring - when she pulled up a
lumpy carrot.
The carrot
had grown straight through the ring, enabling it to be plucked out after many
years hiding in the soil.
She had decided not to tell her husband when she lost it, out of
embarrassment, but she told her son.
She went out
and bought a slightly cheaper replacement ring, and carried on as if nothing
had happened.
"Maybe
I did the wrong thing, but you get so worked up," she said.
No one was
the wiser, until this week when her daughter-in-law Colleen Daley decided she
wanted some carrots for supper.
Ms Daley,
who now lives on the farm where Mrs Grams used to live, went to harvest vegetables
in the garden. Lo and behold, she spotted the ring while washing a rather lumpy
carrot.
Her son
instantly knew who the ring must belong to, and called his mother.
Looking
back, Mrs Grams said she wishes she had told her husband, who died five years
ago.
He was a
joker, she said, and probably would have found this whole situation pretty
funny.
Now that she
has it back, she said she will be more careful.
"If I
am going outside or anything I am going to put it in a safe space. That is what
I should have done," she said.
This is not
the first time someone has found a diamond ring on a carrot. In 2011, a Swedish
woman found her wedding ring 16 years after she lost it.
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