I am a third-year 4-H Cloverbud mom and leader. I do not sew unless it’s an emergency button or seam fix. I have never shown an animal at a county or state fair. Other than the few 4-H club meetings my parents drove me to as a kid and my short-lived horse obsession, I never wanted anything to do with…
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A few weeks ago we celebrated my great-great aunt Iris and her 110th birthday. She is North Dakota’s oldest resident. Her story is remarkable. She’s a farm girl, a 1928 University of North Dakota graduate and a 1946 University of Minnesota graduate. I wrote my weekly Agweek column for this upcoming week about Iris and you can read it by September 19…
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With conflicting team calendars, our school decided to move up Homecoming this year. We are celebrating this week instead of later in the fall and I am writing about it in my weekly column, published online here this coming Saturday, September 12 or for those you getting the print version of Agweek, find it in your mailbox. Since it is our…
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Now that oodles of people are rushing to Walmart’s website and stores to purchase The Pioneer Woman’s new kitchen line (you can see what I received from PW on the link), I think we should balance it out with my small business roots and perspective. There was a comment on my blog post about The Pioneer Woman’s Collection at Walmart and the…
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It’s not every day I get a box in the mail that isn’t from Amazon Prime. Yesterday was an exception. A box arrived from Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, shipped from her small Oklahoma town to my small North Dakota town. Inside were several of the new Pioneer Woman collection of kitchenware and dinnerware items I had already tried to…
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