beecee
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My Maternal Grandmother was a Helenius, from Finland, married a German, Schilling. My mom married a 100 % Italian.
We ate well...….
I really did not remember until just last week the ordeal we were put through as young children, (under 7 years old) when we stayed at our Grandparents home outside of Cooperstown, NY.
Outside of the kitchen there was this shed which had a room in it. The room always smelled weird, like the blanket chest upstairs. Outside of the shed was a small pond, which my grandmother always kept partially open during the winter.
Well, during the winter we would be thrown into this darned small room, which was blazing hot, made to sit in there with nothing on but a small towel, (including my grandmother thank goodness), and then after what seemed like 3-4 days we would be left out into the ice cold snowy yard. My grandmother would grab some branches and stick them in the pond and flick the freezing cold water on all of us kids, (4), and tell us to run around.
I honestly had forgotten about this until we had put in an offer on a house. While showing the pix to my older siblings over the holiday get togethers they started to laugh and say "remember when...???" Yup the memories came flooding back.
Turns out, the home we are buying was built by a Finnish Dr. in the mid 70's. Extremely well built, unique layout and to top it off a small outbuilding in the yard with a chimney.
What is the chimney for??
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Wood fired and all....can't wait to close.
Now if I can talk my wife into running around in the snow......
We ate well...….
I really did not remember until just last week the ordeal we were put through as young children, (under 7 years old) when we stayed at our Grandparents home outside of Cooperstown, NY.
Outside of the kitchen there was this shed which had a room in it. The room always smelled weird, like the blanket chest upstairs. Outside of the shed was a small pond, which my grandmother always kept partially open during the winter.
Well, during the winter we would be thrown into this darned small room, which was blazing hot, made to sit in there with nothing on but a small towel, (including my grandmother thank goodness), and then after what seemed like 3-4 days we would be left out into the ice cold snowy yard. My grandmother would grab some branches and stick them in the pond and flick the freezing cold water on all of us kids, (4), and tell us to run around.
I honestly had forgotten about this until we had put in an offer on a house. While showing the pix to my older siblings over the holiday get togethers they started to laugh and say "remember when...???" Yup the memories came flooding back.
Turns out, the home we are buying was built by a Finnish Dr. in the mid 70's. Extremely well built, unique layout and to top it off a small outbuilding in the yard with a chimney.
What is the chimney for??
Wood fired and all....can't wait to close.
Now if I can talk my wife into running around in the snow......
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