Mary Grams, 84 years old, used to maintain a garden near Armena, Alta., where her family has been living and taking care of farms for nearly 105 years.
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| Source: Iva Herberg (Canadian Press); CBC |
One day in September 2004, as she was pulling off a large weed from the garden, she realized her finger was missing the ring.
She looked for it in every high and low corner of the garden until she thought it was time to accept her fate and move on.
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Grams had that ring since 1951, just a year before she married her husband, Norman.
But when she lost the ring, she made sure not to reveal it to her husband (only her sons knew about it), thinking he might get upset, while she quietly grieved her lost engagement ring.
To avoid her husband’s suspicion, she bought a cheaper ring as a replacement and carried on without an utterance about the lost one.
Years later, when Grams’ daughter-in-law, Daley, went to the garden to harvest vegetables for dinner, her eyes caught a “finger-shaped carrot” — perfectly grown to capture Grandma’s lost engagement ring.
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“It was pretty weird-looking. I’ve never seen anything like that before. It was quite interesting.”
She immediately knew it was her mother-in-law’s ring, as no one else had lived on that farm besides her. She asked her husband about it, and he instantly recognized it as his mother’s ring.
Together, they called Grams to deliver the good news.
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Grams’ husband had passed away five years ago. Now that life has come full circle for her, she regrets not telling him about the lost ring.
“He was a joker. He would have probably found it all funny,” she said.
Perhaps the ring was waiting to be found—13 years later—so that Grams could have this precious moment of reflection and fall in love with her husband all over again.
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