Not even our Garden Report can prep you for this 'Carrot'
Digital Reporter
Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 8:11 PM - Mary Grams of Alberta recently found her engagement ring with the help of her daughter-in-law ... and a carrot.
The 84-year-old lost her diamond ring in September of 2004 while gardening on the family farm located near Armena, Alta., according to CBC.
"We looked high and low on our hands and knees," Grams told the news agency. "We couldn't find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it."
Afraid to tell her husband, Gram quickly replaced the ring after losing it.
"I didn't tell him, even, because I thought for sure he'd give me heck or something," she told CBC.
Grams' daughter-in-law Colleen Daley was in the garden harvesting vegetables on Monday when she made a remarkable discovery.
Daley noticed something sparkly on a lumpy carrot she had pulled out of the ground. Lo and behold it was the diamond ring her mother-in-law lost more than a decade ago.
"I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law because no other women have lived on that farm," Daley told CBC.
"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."
Daley told CBC that it was strange to see that the vegetable had grown perfectly around the ring.
"I've never seen anything like that," she told CBC. "It was quite interesting."
Grams lost her husband five years ago shortly after the couple's 60th wedding anniversary, according to the news agency.
The 84-year-old said she is happy that the ring is back on her finger where it belongs.
"I'm going to wear it because it still fits."
SOURCE: CBC
