Yesterday I heard from an old local farmer that the last Friday of the month is a good predictor of the next month’s weather. The last Friday of August it was about 100 degrees, hot, dry and windy on the prairie. Today on the North Dakota prairie, it is gray, cloudy, cold…as in 48 degrees and raining. So much for…
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Football & Fans With A Soybean Field Wind Tower Backdrop
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: athletics, football, North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life 2 Comments
Another week of Mustang football for our seventh grade football playing son is complete after last night’s game. This week we once again had friends and family to join us in cheering on Hunter #55. My forever friend Sara and her youngest son Lucas stayed with us for two nights before heading home to Minnesota this morning. They road tripped…
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Input For Operation Save The Tomatoes
Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Life in North Dakota Tagged With: agriculture, gardening, growing crops, North Dakota, prairie, rural life 2 Comments
My garden plants were bought in mid-May. Then school was out, my sister’s wedding and a flurry of business travel and my first ever garden was yet to be planted. My dear mother and Hunter planted it for me while I was away on a business trip the first week of June. Then came our landscaping crew in early August…
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Prairie Auction Sale Treasure Hunting
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: North Dakota, prairie, prairie life, rural life 3 Comments
While Hunter worked on our church’s youth group lunch stand on Saturday at a local auction sale, Miss E and I decided to take a look around for treasures. The auction sale was our friends and local church goers as they down size and empty a house full of family heirlooms and belongings. E, of course had a baby doll…
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Farm Show, Football & Girlfriends
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: athletics, football, friendship, girlfriends, North Dakota, prairie women, rural life 2 Comments
This week I headed to Fargo for a farm show. My mom has a great recap on our visit complete with the combine I would have loved…if I had a few hundred thousand dollars laying around to buy for my dad. There already was a SOLD sign in the window. Farm equipment is so expensive and my dad always has…
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