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On the 24th of October 1885 we saw Johan Hylsenberg and his wife celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. I was a guest for this event, and during the celebration we also figured out that I was also present 50 years ago when they were first married. I wasn't actually born until the 3rd of June 1836, but their wedding was held at my parent's house, so I'm all but certain that I was there. 

During the winter of 1885-86 Jørgen left to go and see Hans Johansen's widow in order to help her take care of her animals, while Johan and Hartvig were in the forest. However, he hadn't been there long before he got hurt using the grinder. After he had rested at her house for a while, Carl Marcusen brought him back home to our house where it took him the rest of the winter in order to recuperate. 

During the winter of 1885-86 Hanne went regularly to see the priest. She had also gone the previous winter but mother thought she would benefit from going for one more year. So that's the way it went. As we neared Spring, and her confirmation and her confirmation loomed, mother and I went to Green Bay with a small load of barley that we were going to sell in order

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to get some cash that would be used to buy clothes for Hanne. Mother also had a few pairs of stockings that she had woven herself and the sale of these was also supposed to aid in us being able to acquire Hanne's confirmation gown. The brewers were unwilling in buying our barley and as we were getting tired of driving around trying to sell said grain we decided instead to head over to Andrew Reise's hotel. Once there, we unbridled our horses, stayed for dinner and in the end we decided we'd just bring the barley back home with us when we returned. 

I lamented to Reise about my inability to sell my barley and upon hearing this he immediately telephoned someone named Van Dyke who was more than happy to take the barley off of our hands. I received 25 cent per bushel and that meant that we could go shopping at Jørgensen's. While we were trying to be thrifty the shopkeeper still ended up with all of the money we had made selling the barley and the stockings. In spite of that we still didn't end up getting everything that we needed. However, a few days later we were able to scrape together a bit of butter, eggs and some seed. The morning that Hanne had to see the priest again, I went along and on the way there we stopped at Benneke's where she got herself a new hat. She was officially all decked out and ready to go. Hanne was born on the 4th of September 1870 and was therefore fifteen and a half years old when she got confirmed.