Posted on 08/17/2017 9:56:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
After losing her engagement ring on her family farm more than a decade ago, Canadian Mary Grams resigned herself to the idea she would never see it again.
That is, until the diamond ring showed up this week – 13 years after she lost it –wrapped tightly around a misshapen carrot that had been freshly plucked from the garden.
The 84-year-old said she likely lost the ring as she was pulling a large weed from her farm in central Alberta in 2004, prompting a frantic search. “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 told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “I cried so many times.”
At that point she had been wearing the ring for more than half a century, ever since her husband-to-be, Norman, had given it to her in 1951.
When days of searching proved fruitless, she decided not to tell her husband. “I didn’t tell him, even, because I thought for sure he’d give me heck or something,” she said. “Then I finally went to the jeweller and bought a cheap ring. I only told my son, I didn’t tell nobody else.”
Her husband – who died five years ago, shortly after the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary – never noticed the swap, said Grams.
The missing ring remained a secret until earlier this week, when her granddaughter brought over a freshly-picked carrot that had an ornate ring encircling it. “I recognised it right away,” said Grams. “They found it yesterday when my daughter-in-law was digging carrots for supper.”
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You made my Freeper Day.
Thanks
Trump should be impeached for this
I thought this was pretty darn cool.
One karat. Cheap ring.
>Uversabound — thanks! Glad it made you happy! I thought it was a super nice story.
>Mr. K — Sheesh. I try to extricate us from the foul crud, corruption and sludge for just one moment and, BAM!, it oozes right into my fun thread. Thanks a lot!
God’s way of making sure she got the ring back, IMO.
Yeah! What a cheapskate hardscrabble 18 year old Alberta farmer in 1951. Buying his bride-to-be a measly one karat engagement ring. The nerve of that guy! He should have slaughtered a couple more cows and sold some acreage to afford a nice engagement ring.
Have a nice day.
Just incredible, isn’t it? The chances of this happening have to be close to zero.
“One karat. Cheap ring.”
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I certainly hope you are kidding.
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Good one!
I think you missed a nice play on words by Rebel Base.
Here’s one for $9000.00-—cheap ring.:-)
Funny line, but the ring is priceless.
Yep. Prayer works that way and you do not see it coming!!!
WOW Freepers I am upset inside today.
Keep Praying and DONT LISTEN TO THE NEWS>>>>>>
Freegards....
Trumps’s fault that she lost it....
And that’s racist making that carrot have to grow in it.
Ban all diamond rings...they’re racist towards hard-working carrot types.
karat = CARROT
Yes, he was kidding.
“karat = CARROT
Yes, he was kidding.”
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Ahaa !
My sense of humor meter was turned off,I guess.:-)
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You’re right, SH, I totally missed it!
Apologies to Rebel Base...that was a good one! Well done. Sorry about that. How could I have not picked that up? Not enough coffee.
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