March 14th 1843

My mother told me that in Sweden March 14th

was the date you bought a farm, according to

an old tradition.

There was another date for sellings farms in autumn,

but most farm were taken over on March 14th.

My mother thinks this tradition is probably

still kept for sale of active farms. Perhaps?

So the farm I wrote about in my last blog entry

became the farm of my greatgreatgreatgrandfather

Eric on March 14th 1843.

168 years ago now on Monday.