This beautifully windy Sunday morning on the prairie, I am quickly writing out lyrics with a big fat black permanent marker onto huge sheets of lined paper in quick preparation for Sunday school music today. Our rural small town church doesn’t have a fancy projector or computer with lyrics. Every sheet of music I have used this year in my…
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Irresistible Valentine’s Cake Pops
Filed Under: Dessert, Recipes Tagged With: cake pops, holidays, sweets, Valentines Day 7 Comments
A box arrived yesterday from Auntie Lori with homemade and freshly made cake pops. Cake pops are trendy. Cake pops are divine. Cake pops are on the prairie now. (Thanks Lori!) Anika calls them “guckers” like suckers. But they are so much more than a lollipop sucker. They are moist, rich vanilla cake with white chocolate coating. I have never…
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The North Dakota Prairie’s Winter Monsters
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life 1 Comment
Unless you live in our corner of the North Dakota prairie, you are unaware of the wide open spaces, land as far as you can see, thousands of more cattle than people and this time of year…snowbanks higher than our vehicles. While driving home from the airport the other day, I stuck my camera out the window and starting snapping….
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Wordless Wednesday: Farmers & Blake Shelton
Filed Under: America's Farm Table Tagged With: Blake Shelton, I love farmers, know a California farmer, World Ag Expo 5 Comments
The power of social media & farmers leading the Know A California Farmer effort along with the power of youth… and their fearless leader with I Love Farmers gathered together with a few thousand others in agriculture at the World Ag Expo. Then this guy showed up…and joined the farmers. Icing on the cake? His Grammy nominated fiancee Miranda Lambert took…
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Advantage & Tradition of Small Town Basketball
Filed Under: Family Values, Life in North Dakota, Small Town Living, Small Town Sports Tagged With: athletics, basketball, family fun, North Dakota, prairie, rural life, small town sports 8 Comments
We come from generations of basketball players. Particularly small town basketball is in our family with me the only exception that didn’t play North Dakota Class B basketball. I was a Class A snob as my brothers tell me. But today I live and love small town, Class B basketball. Everyone plays. No one gets cut. The team brings the…
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