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jpak

(41,758 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:42 AM Aug 2017

Woman, 84, finds engagement ring wrapped around carrot in garden 13 years after she lost it

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/woman-finds-lost-engagement-ring-wrapped-carrot-article-1.3420381

That wasn't exactly the type of carat a Canadian family was expecting to find in their vegetable garden.

Mary Grams spent over a decade wondering where her diamond engagement ring had disappeared to.

The 84-year-old woman lost the ring in 2004 while pulling up weeds in her garden, BBC reports.

Grams was so embarrassed about losing the ring that she decided not to tell her husband. Instead, Grams said she went to the store and purchased an identical, cheaper band.

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Woman, 84, finds engagement ring wrapped around carrot in garden 13 years after she lost it (Original Post) jpak Aug 2017 OP

Made my day! Thanks for posting. Canoe52 Aug 2017 #1

Who knew a carrot would stay fresh in the ground Control-Z Aug 2017 #2

The story explains that a carrot of the current crop grew through the lost ring :) Donkees Aug 2017 #4

Ah. I see! Thank you. Control-Z Aug 2017 #6

I had to get to the root of the matter, because I first thought the same thing as you :) Donkees Aug 2017 #7

Root of the matter! Control-Z Aug 2017 #8

that carrot looks like my finger did with my first wedding ring OriginalGeek Aug 2017 #3

Nice :) Donkees Aug 2017 #5

So, are you married to your grandma now? lastlib Aug 2017 #9

A one carrot diamond ring Crabby Appleton Aug 2017 #10

Canoe52

(2,949 posts)

1. Made my day! Thanks for posting.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:51 AM

Aug 2017

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

2. Who knew a carrot would stay fresh in the ground

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:59 AM

Aug 2017

and continue to grow (slowly, obviously) for 13 years!!

Great story. Thanks for posting it.

Donkees

(31,439 posts)

4. The story explains that a carrot of the current crop grew through the lost ring :)

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:14 PM

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Control-Z

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6. Ah. I see! Thank you.

Reply to Donkees (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:28 PM

Aug 2017

I should have clicked on to read more. A few times lately when I have I come to find out I've already read the full story in the OP. I got lazy.

Donkees

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7. I had to get to the root of the matter, because I first thought the same thing as you :)

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:35 PM

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Control-Z

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8. Root of the matter!

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Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:51 PM

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OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)

3. that carrot looks like my finger did with my first wedding ring

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:01 PM

Aug 2017

Wife fattened me up so I'd be slower. We had to cut it off and had originally intended to melt it down along with some new gold to make a new wedding ring but we never got around to it and eventually we lost the piece.

So one day several years ago I was over at my grandpa's and he asked me to get something for him from his dresser and I noticed a wedding band laying there. I asked him what was up with extra wedding band he said that several years before that he lost his original band while working in the yard. Grandma wasn't having any of that so she marched him down to the jewelry store and bought him a new band.

Several years after THAT he was again out working in the yard. He reached down to adjust a sprinkler head and saw a glint. Dug a bit and pulled up his original wedding ring and put that on and set the replacement aside where it sat for years until I found it on his dresser. He said "you need a ring right? Just take that one." and that's how I came to have my grandpa's second wedding ring. Which I think is the next best thing to having used my original one in a new ring.