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A Swedish woman’s recent toiling in her garden turned up a rather unexpected harvest when she pulled a carrot out of the ground ‘wearing’ the wedding ring she had lost back in 1995.

After 16 years, Lena and Ola Påhlsson, who reside near Mora, Dalarna, in central Sweden, had given up hope of ever finding Lena’s lost wedding ring. The ring, which Lena had designed herself, went missing after she had put it on the kitchen counter in midst of a holiday baking session back in 1995.

But as Lena was about to gather the last of the carrots from the family vegetable patch…she pulled out a carrot that had something attached to it. As the carrot was so small, she was about to throw it away when she realized what it was that appeared to be “growing” around the finger-sized vegetable.

“Our daughter Anna was at home at the time and she heard an almighty scream from the garden,” Ola Påhlsson told The Local, recalling the day of the miraculous find.

Anna thought Lena had hurt herself and went running to her mother. She instead found Lena sitting on a chair looking rather shocked.

“It was Lena’s wedding ring that had been missing since 1995 after Lenas annual Christmas baking. It had surfaced, wrapped around a carrot. Quite amazing,” said Ola…

He…theorized that the family’s sheep, which is often fed kitchen scraps, may have had a hand in the mysterious migration of the ring.

“Maybe it had been eaten by the sheep and then ended up in the manure that we then spread over the vegetable patch,” said Ola…

They were both pleased to find that the ring – made of white gold with seven small diamonds – was as good as new after all those years in the soil.

Good news is worth telling the world about. They certainly seem like the sort of self-sufficient rural folks who can always use a bit of good news. Good looking carrot, too. We wouldn’t throw away something that size from our own carrot patch.