True love lasts a lifetime even if wedding rings become misplaced. A Swedish woman discovered that just because a wedding ring is lost, doesn't mean it is gone forever. According to an AFP report, Lena Paahlsson found the wedding ring she lost in 1995 and the circumstances surrounding the discovery are the most bizarre part of the story.
It seems as though Paahlsson had removed her ring in 1995 and it disappeared. This fall, Paahlsson was digging in the garden on her family's farm when she re-discovered the ring -- being worn by a carrot. Apparently, when the ring was lost 16 years ago, Paahlsson believes it ended up in the compost pile with potato peels or the peels that were fed to the sheep. The sheep manure is composted by the family and spread on the garden.
While the ring no longer fits, Paahlsson plans to have it resized and was happy to see it again after all these years.
A carrot presenting a long lost ring is certainly among the strangest way to find an AWOL wedding band, but it seems that gardens and yards yield such treasures unexpectedly. It happened to one North Carolina couple, but they waited 57 years to be reunited with a lost engagement ring.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported in June, 2010 that 83-year-old Vonnie Wood was reunited with the engagement ring her husband Troy had given her in the 1940s. She had lost the ring while planting bushes at the home they lived in during the early 1950s and the woman they later sold that house to eventually found it while digging up a bush.
After an Easter visit to the old home where they had lived many years ago, the new homeowner remembered the ring she had found and put away. She contacted the Woods' to ask if they had lost a ring there years before. Vonnie Woods got her original engagement ring back in time to celebrate the couple's 63rd wedding anniversary.
Finding lost rings in the dirt may be more common than finding them in the toilet, but that's exactly where a Montana couple recovered a missing wedding ring from -- 36 years after it was lost. As the story went, Donna Claver dropped her wedding ring in the toilet of the couple's home and it became lodged in a hole at the bottom of the toilet. They were unable to retrieve it and eventually sold the home.
Eventually, the husband, Terry Claver, happened to be working at a home across from his old place when he saw the owners carrying an old toilet out for disposal. Remembering the ring, Terry offered to dispose of the toilet, took it to his shop and busted it up. The ring was still there and after a little cleaning it looked as good as new. Terry Claver presented it to his wife with the words "Will you marry me?"
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