There are very few pieces of jewelry as symbolic as a wedding ring. And for Swedish wife Lena, it was even more so as she had designed the ring herself. So she was understandably devastated when it went missing during a holiday baking session in 1995. Lena and her husband Ola went on a frantic search for the missing ring, checking behind the appliances and even under the floorboards when they renovated the kitchen a few years later. But the ring was nowhere to be found.
As the years went by, there was no sign of the ring, and Lena had given up hope. Until one day when she was harvesting vegetables from their family garden. She was gathering carrots when she pulled up a tiny carrot with a strange growth. She was about the throw it away when she realized exactly what was growing out of that carrot.
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Lena remembers that day vividly. “Our daughter Anna was at home at the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden.” When she ran to see what had happened she found her mother sitting on a chair with a stunned look on her face. “It was Lena’s wedding ring that had been missing since 1995”… “It had surfaced, wrapped around a carrot. Quite amazing”, said Ola.
Now, as to how the ring made it to the vegetable patch, Ola has a couple of theories. “We thought maybe it had fallen into the compostable food bin. Perhaps it ended up in compost that was spread over the vegetable patch later.” Or perhaps the family sheep, who was often fed table scraps, was the culprit. “Maybe it had been eaten by the sheep and then ended up in the manure that we then spread over the vegetable patch”.
However the ring got there, the couple is thrilled that the ring, white gold with seven small diamonds, was as good as new after its many adventures. I personally, and I’m sure that many of you out there would agree, sincerely hope that one of those adventures did not involve the digestive tract of a sheep and that Lena stores the ring in a safe place while baking from now on.
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