809 Kennedy Court

Before we left we took a few minutes to take some pictures with grandma in her house and of her house. I have a lot of good memories of the summer here. We got some good family shots and photos that bring back memories for me. I considered taking a picture of the laundry shoot (hours of fun putting things down that and into the basement laundry), but instead I'll keep that memory in my head.

There was one special find downstairs in the basement. A trunk from Norway from 1872 that belonged to Guro, a family friend that came over from Norway to Minnesota to help raise some children. Inside that trunk was her old Lutheran catechism in Norwegian, published in 1849 and given in 1854. If you look closely you'll see the cover of the book is actually very thin pieces of wood, held together partially by the paper covering. Pretty amazing to find something almost 170 years old in grandma's basement.