Sosie spent last night and today combing through boxes in the capacious Rolfsrud Relics Repository in Stan and Kathleen's basement. Mom and Dad were enthusiastic savers and virtually every aspect of their modest lives is documented on paper. Grade school projects from 1917 are mingled with birthday cards to "Daddy" written by his children. Every neatly-typed letter ever written to family members is duplicated in a three-ring binder. Every newspaper clipping with the word "Rolfsrud" somewhere in it has been clipped and pasted. Sosie skimmed the surface of this treasure today, often exclaiming, "I didn't know that!" or "Look at this!" or "You've got to be kidding." Needless to say, progress in categorizing, organizing and compacting this trove for posterity is slow going. Others will take their turns at the arduous task if this work is every to be done.
Update:
So
sie has unearthed a clue as to the origin of the now famous homemade Rolfsrud Coat of Arms
discussed in an August 2009 post on this blog (you can look it up at left -- read the snarky comment from some outlander as well). Today Sosie discovered an envelope in Dad's handwriting that says "Patterns for Heide Coat-of-Arms"
which would lead a sharp detective to conclude that the Coat of Arms in question is not a Rolfsrud Coat of Arms at all, but rather a Heide Coat of Arms honoring our father's maternal lineage. You betcha.
