The daughter-in-law of an 84-year-old woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago almost fed the newly found ring to a dog.
Colleen Daley was picking carrots for dinner at the farm that had been in her husband’s family in Alberta, Canada, about 37 miles southeast of Edmonton, for 105 years when she found a misshapen carrot.
She thought about giving the deformed root to the dog Billy who was picking carrots with her at the time, but decided to give it a second chance and threw it in her pail.
It wasn’t till she was washing it that she realized the cause of its deformity—a ring had gotten wrapped around the carrot, and as it grew, it had pinched the middle of the carrot, shaping it like an hourglass.
Her mother-in-law, Mary Grams had lost the ring in September 2004 while she was pulling out a large weed in the garden.
