Congrats to my cousins for the rebuilding on their flagship store, Dane Decor in less than a year. Lightning hit this 19th century building that originally was a church last June and gutted it-I believe I mentioned it happening in this blog. A fireman happen to see the lightning and knew it had struck something and got to Dane Decor before the siren went off. The 4 guys’ grandmom Kate and my grandmom Ruth were Hasselberg first cousins. (for those of you good at geneology-what does that make my relationship to these guys-3rd, twice removed?)Their mom Gloria (passed away in 2000) taught my mom when she was a student teacher and she also came to my wedding. I still use the teak tea cart we received as a gift almost 23 years ago, from Dane Decor! The last time I was at Gloria’s house, Sean was a little baby and I had a severe gallbladder attack the next day. Weird.

Here’s the story about the reopening-(the link may or may not work, but wasn’t at the time I wrote this).

And I’ll have to go visit sometime to say hello as my one cousin Drew would like to chat with me (he said so on my blog last year). Also at the link from last year, another cousin I don’t know left me a message-his name is Sean!

I love that the guys are ‘tree huggers’ and saved an old maple that was part of the store when they enclosed a courtyard for space.