I just love that she was eccentric, quirky, sassy and sweet all at the same time. She was that crazy old lady in the house on the corner in Hopkins, Minnesota that her neighbors would undoubtedly shake their heads at and just laugh. She was a night owl (like all of the Larsens - me included) and so, unlike most senior citizens, would do her yard work and house projects at night. She would trim her own hedges (in her 80s!) at midnight and sweep her driveway of grass clippings in the dark. Bizarre! But since I have moved to Texas where the summers are an inferno (to put it lightly), I find myself doing yard work in the near-dark as well. I just laugh to myself, knowing that I'm merely carrying on the family tradition. :)
Grandma was a tough lady and persevered through a lot. She had a very rough childhood (I don't know all the details, but she told me once that it was 'bad' and that she left as a teenager because it 'wasn't a good situation' with her step-dad) and then lost her husband in 1959 when she had two teenage sons to finish raising on her own. She was a widow, living in that same house by herself from 1959 all the way up to her death in 2004. She was spunky, strong, determined, eccentric and everything in between. I hope I inherited a lot from her!
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Awesome.
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