We have an intense kitchen helper. She loves pancakes…making and eating them. Together we follow a recipe from this standard, classic cook book. It gives simple, easy recipes and has taught me to cook through my twenties…and into my thirties. Page 88, pancakes. I have modified the recipe many times. But the listed buttermilk recipe is wonderful by itself. We…
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Summer Baseball-500th post
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Hunter has spent his summer attending Bible camp, a basketball camp, going to sports acceleration two early mornings a week and on a daily basis baseball is apart of his summer. This weekend Hunter’s pee wee team had a league tournament. After winning just one game in regular season with only three 12 year olds on their team, there were…
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5 years ago I boarded a plane that changed my life forever…
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Exactly five years ago today, I boarded an early morning flight from Minneapolis to Kansas City that would change the direction of my life forever. God had a plan that I didn’t know about and of course He caught me off guard with it. Thankfully, I had reached a point of spiritual maturity in my life that I could now…
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A majority of the time when I travel on business I stay at a chain hotel, never see the city I am staying in other than a convention center or an office building, rarely see any tourist areas and am in and out of the city in less than 48 hours to get home as fast as I can to…
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Corn run
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Around the 4th of July on the farm, it is critical to venture out to one of our fields and measure the corn’s height. Knee high by the 4th of July is how the saying goes on the northern prairie. In order for the corn to be mature enough for fall harvest we need it knee high. Depending on who…
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