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Putting a Little Spring in our Step
I do believe it takes living with -30 wind chills and knee deep snow to fully appreciate the first 70 degree days of spring. Minnesotans get it. Our Saturday of soaking in 70 degrees prompted the...
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Camp Mosdal
Written July 15, 2013. When summer was just around the corner, we picked up a 12-person tent. We tucked it away safely in the attic, just waiting for that nice night when we’d set up that new...
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“Chicken Day:” 110 Hot Chicks on the Farm
“Chicken Day” is now one of my favorite memories of the summer and my brother, Mike. On June 6th, our chickens arrived. I wrote the article below for the paper the following week. Less than two...
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A Popsicle Week
Written July 22, 2013. With colored tongues to prove it, our kids slurped down most of a brand new box of 100 freeze-and-eat popsicles in the past week. Four kids, a few popsicles a day, times a...
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35: The Chicken Birthday
Written July 29, 2013. This Friday is a momentous day at our house. It’s my 35th birthday and Chicken Day. Eight weeks ago, 110 peeping balls of fluff arrived at our place, 60 meat bird chicks and 50...
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Your Friendly Local Wicked Stepsister
Written August 8, 2013. Feather boa, fake mole, lace gloves, crazy hat, mismatched socks, blue eye shadow…all just part of my Tuesday morning this past week. Oh yes, and did I mention that I’m going to...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Written September 3, 2013. Have you seen those containers of parched, bedraggled flowers baking on the sidewalks outside of stores? Sometimes I feel a little like that. At the beginning of summer, the...
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Westward the Chickens: The Great Roundup, A (Mid)Western
Folks, turn on your deep, gravelly Sam Elliot cowboy voice as you read this today. Go ahead and put in your dip o’ chew. Things are gettin’ a little mid-western ’round these parts. This here ain’t no...
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12 Days of Christmas, Crammed into 7
Written December 2013. Merry Christmas, everyone! I’d like to wish you something about visions of sugar plums, snow flakes gently falling, silent nights, all is calm, sleigh bells jingling…blah, blah,...
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2013: A Year in Pictures (And a Few Words, Too)
This week, a picture is definitely worth a 1,000 words (to me, anyway). As you read this, the rush of Christmas is over, but as I write this, I am in still in the midst of one week to go before the big...
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Happy Birthday, Little Buddy!
You know what’s even better than your baby’s first birthday? Your baby’s first birthday AND 65 new baby chicks arriving at your house on the same day! Somehow a year flew by and our little boy turned...
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