by hotrod » Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:11 pm
I know just enough norwegian to know when I was in trouble with grandma when I was a kid :-) Where my dad grew in just east of here about 50 miles or so was settled mostly by finnish. Probably 75% at one time. Not the easiest place to live, swampy, rocky/sandy, They make a living there. Probably alot like the home country. Anyways my dads best freind is full finn, his english is hard to understand due to his accent. I loved going there as a kid, they had at the time 7 kids and ended up with 15 total after the older ones had grown up. Suppertime was awesome, all the guys would finish up eating first then it was sauna time! ALL the men and boys hit the sauna while the girls straightened the kitchen up then it was the womens and girls turn. .
spring summer winter and fall every day was a sauna day!
Finn is still spoken there and if you go to the cafe or store in the middle of the day odds are you will hear that instead of english.
A sauna is in the planning stages for here next summer, got my stove stuff almost gathered. You just cant get a good sauna at a motel etc...Maybe then they will quit callingl me muska hoses??? lolololololol Paul
Paul
Some people are like slinkys.. not much good for anything but they still make you smile when you push them down the stairs....