Woman finds long-lost engagement ring on a carrot growing in her garden

When 84-year-old Mary Grams lost her engagement ring while she was pulling a weed on her Alberta farm in 2004, she never expected to find it. But then, 13 years later, she found it in the most unexpected of places: wrapped around a carrot plucked from her garden.

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Grams' daughter-in-law Colleen Daley dug it up while she was digging carrots for dinner. Daley said she immediately knew it must belong to "to either grandma or my mother-in-law because no other women have lived on that farm" that's been in the family for 105 years.

Grams had tried to keep her lost ring a secret over the years, even going so far as to buy a similar ring in the hopes her husband wouldn't notice (he didn't). But Grams certainly felt the loss, as she'd been wearing the ring since her husband proposed to her in 1951.

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Now, five years after her husband's death, she finally has her engagement ring back. "It fit," Grams said. "After that many years it fits."