You and your family are invited this Saturday to the Dog Days of Stockholm. We hold this event in the park so that you have lots of trees and grass to sniff. You can also check out other dogs, find new toys at vendor booths, and show off your talents. Your family can win prizes and eat terrific food. You can all have a fun day together!
While you do, you will be helping homeless dogs get adopted into forever homes. In this joyful, relaxed atmosphere that you and your family help create, shelter and foster dogs have fun and are themselves. That gives families interested in adopting a chance to get to know them. You can meet them, too. Last year 53 shelter and foster dogs got forever homes at Dog Days of Stockholm.
Bring your family Saturday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to Dog Days of Stockholm You can meet Pat Kessler’s pug Shelby. Shelby is helping Pat of WCCO TV host the event. Tell your family to find out more at dogdaysofstockholm.com or e-mail maryanne@dogdaysofstockholm.com.
We’d love to see you again,
Maryanne and the Dogs Days volunteers
7/25/13
A great place to bring your family…
Our path to ownership of TansyHus was not a straight line. In fact, we took a circuitous route halfway across the country to arrive in Stockholm. Our interest in Stockholm began while residing in rural La Crosse when we frequently traveled the Great River Road between La Crosse and the Twin Cities. We loved the Stockholm area so much that we made a pact to someday have a home here.
For decades, our path took us away from Stockholm, eventually leading to Pasadena, California. In the meantime, our daughter Andrea and her husband Stanton Sears purchased a thirty-five acre farmstead five miles north of Stockholm. Today known as Blackcat Farmstead, the property houses a large art studio where public art is conceived and fabricated. The Little House, an 1800s dwelling from the Laura Ingalls farmstead a mile away, was recently moved to the property. Today it is home to a fiber studio.
In 2005, we returned to Stockholm for Thanksgiving to visit Andrea and her family. Our interest in owning a home in Stockholm was immediately rekindled. The next year we bought the John and Hannah Lindgren home at W12066 Second Street. We had to work through decades of neglect to the home, but, by the end of 2006, we had completed our initial rehab and offered the house as a vacation rental. We named it TansyHus.
We find a similarity to our arrival in Stockholm with that of Eric Peterson, Stockholm’s founder. Just like us, Eric passed by the Stockholm area many times and fell in love with it. He traveled on a riverboat; we traveled via the Great River Road. He had a dream of making Stockholm a Swedish settlement and stacked a claim to it. We had a dream of owning a home in Stockholm and now we do. After staking his claim, Eric left for Sweden to bring his family to Stockholm. Our daughter and her family brought us finally to Stockholm, too. We share a connection with Eric of Stockholm being home and family.
We invite you to bring your family to enjoy our TansyHus.
We’d love to see you again,
Sandra and John Myklebust
TansyHus
For decades, our path took us away from Stockholm, eventually leading to Pasadena, California. In the meantime, our daughter Andrea and her husband Stanton Sears purchased a thirty-five acre farmstead five miles north of Stockholm. Today known as Blackcat Farmstead, the property houses a large art studio where public art is conceived and fabricated. The Little House, an 1800s dwelling from the Laura Ingalls farmstead a mile away, was recently moved to the property. Today it is home to a fiber studio.
In 2005, we returned to Stockholm for Thanksgiving to visit Andrea and her family. Our interest in owning a home in Stockholm was immediately rekindled. The next year we bought the John and Hannah Lindgren home at W12066 Second Street. We had to work through decades of neglect to the home, but, by the end of 2006, we had completed our initial rehab and offered the house as a vacation rental. We named it TansyHus.
We find a similarity to our arrival in Stockholm with that of Eric Peterson, Stockholm’s founder. Just like us, Eric passed by the Stockholm area many times and fell in love with it. He traveled on a riverboat; we traveled via the Great River Road. He had a dream of making Stockholm a Swedish settlement and stacked a claim to it. We had a dream of owning a home in Stockholm and now we do. After staking his claim, Eric left for Sweden to bring his family to Stockholm. Our daughter and her family brought us finally to Stockholm, too. We share a connection with Eric of Stockholm being home and family.
We invite you to bring your family to enjoy our TansyHus.
We’d love to see you again,
Sandra and John Myklebust
TansyHus
7/18/13
Fill your senses at the Stockholm Art Fair this Saturday.
Fill your senses at the Stockholm Art Fair this Saturday, July 20. See and touch the original art from over one hundred artists. Discover exceptional paintings, jewelry, clay, glass, sculpture, fiber, wood, leather, photography and more.
Listen to the music of talented area musicians including B. Squat Woody, Mike Quick, Patchouli, Yata, Healey & Orfield, Ditch Lilies, and Little Wing. Check out the complete schedule by clicking here.
Enjoy the aromas from the food vendors and taste their mouth-watering offerings. Choose from wood-fired pizza, portabella mushroom sandwiches, Thai chicken wraps, teriyaki chicken pita, freshly-squeezed lemonade, cheese curds, gyros, maple root beer, kettle corn, freshly-roasted nuts, vafflejarta with whipped cream and lingonberries, and more.
Admission to the park is free. Parking in the meadow is $5. Shuttle buses are running from downtown to the park. Bring the entire family. The kids can have fun at the children’s activities.
Remember to stroll through the shops downtown and find more special pieces. Pick up delicious eats at Stockholm eateries.
We’d love to see you again,
Stockholm Merchants
Listen to the music of talented area musicians including B. Squat Woody, Mike Quick, Patchouli, Yata, Healey & Orfield, Ditch Lilies, and Little Wing. Check out the complete schedule by clicking here.
Enjoy the aromas from the food vendors and taste their mouth-watering offerings. Choose from wood-fired pizza, portabella mushroom sandwiches, Thai chicken wraps, teriyaki chicken pita, freshly-squeezed lemonade, cheese curds, gyros, maple root beer, kettle corn, freshly-roasted nuts, vafflejarta with whipped cream and lingonberries, and more.
Admission to the park is free. Parking in the meadow is $5. Shuttle buses are running from downtown to the park. Bring the entire family. The kids can have fun at the children’s activities.
Remember to stroll through the shops downtown and find more special pieces. Pick up delicious eats at Stockholm eateries.
We’d love to see you again,
Stockholm Merchants
7/13/13
Meet a red-haired girl who keeps horses in her kitchen…
Meet Pippi Longstocking, a red-haired girl who keeps horses in her kitchen and wins wrestling matches with the circus strongman. Pippi has captivated today’s American children. They find humor in Pippi’s authority-challenging ways and love the fun adventures that author Astrid Lindgren wrote.
Read aloud a story featuring Sniff, Snork, and Snork’s love
interest the Snork Maiden, The Moomin characters. Created by Tove Jansson, another Swedish
author, her stories use a sly humor that will entertain you as well as the children
who are listening.
Discover the tiny world deep in a Nordic forest where
miniature children wear mushroom caps and have toads as friends. Peter in
Blueberry Land and other timeless fairytales by Elsa Beskow pull you into the
wonderful worlds from her imagination.
Writing at the kitchen table with her six children milling about her,
Elsa absorbed the energy of her happy children into her books. You’ll find a special life to her stories and
illustrations.
Pippi, the Moomins, and the miniature children of Beskow’s magical
forests are classic characters in Swedish children’s literature, as popular in
their home country today as they were 60 years ago when the books were first
published. At Ingebretsen’s av
Stockholm, we keep these wonderful books in stock because, really, what would a
Swedish store be without a volume of stories about Pippi, The Moomins, and the
miniature children?
Stop by Ingebretsen’s soon, take one or all three of these characters’
stories off the shelf, have a seat by our book section, and spend some time
with the creations of these Swedish authors’ imaginations. You’ll enter a world with a bit of magic.
We’d love to see you again,
Diane and staff
Ingebretsen’s av Stockholm
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