I hibernate when it is dark…my body tells me its jammie time the minute the sun goes down. This time of year is a real struggle for me. After 5 p.m. I am useless. I don’t want to go out. I want to read and drink hot beverages and hunker down for the night. That means about 17 hours of... READ MORE >
I recently had my annual Women’s Wellness Weekend with nine ladies from my family. It was our best weekend ever! We rented a beautiful home on the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wisconsin. Our age range is 44 to 93, but we are all 21 at heart. The theme this year became “Birds Up!” as we all, yes all, got... READ MORE >
Next week I will have a banner birthday “55.” Everywhere I saw the signs that this was coming, literally. I live very near Highway 55; most speed limit signs are 55 and now I am receiving a number of mailings reminding me that I qualify for AARP and several “senior” discounts at the ripe old age of 55. Did you... READ MORE >
In northern Minnesota it snowed today. Fall didn’t just fall, it crashed! Sometimes the season sneaks up on us… a pretty leaf here or there. A tree full of yellow leaves that wasn’t there yesterday. There might be a cold freeze in the morning but a toasty afternoon followed soon. Not this year…lots of rain followed by snow just a... READ MORE >
I love the color blue. Not light blue or teal but a truly deep, dark cobalt blue. A blueberry blue. Recently I visited my parents in Schroeder at the height of blueberry season. I have never seen anything like it. Beautiful blue blueberries were just hanging off the bushes. We picked 32 quarts in less than two hours. We ran... READ MORE >
We just had our third of the annual Field to Feast Community Dinners. This is such a labor of love! I cannot begin to express the overall feeling of this event. Never did I imagine what it could be when my friend Barb Westman and I discussed it almost four years ago. We were just driving in the car, kicking... READ MORE >
I received several Facebook notices that August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day…thank goodness my neighbors love me too much to bring on such torture, but then I thought about those that fell victim to such a malicious crime. How would they ever trust again? Would they now be inclined to spend the eve of... READ MORE >
Well, it’s finally happened to me…. I am a homebody. I can’t help it I just love being at home. It’s quiet and peaceful. We have no visible neighbors, and we can only hear cars from a distance. There are plenty of woods to explore as we live next to Stanley Eddy Memorial Park Reserve, giving us an 879-acre back... READ MORE >
As I write this, I am baking two rhubarb custard pies…yum! This is the best recipe I have found, and recently I have made six pies. No, we didn’t eat that many pies! (Although I could.) Two were bought by friends to raise money for the Annandale All Night Grad Party, two as gifts for the neighbors, one taken to... READ MORE >
As my children graduate and grow up I remember my graduation day. I was so excited to move on to the next “grown-up” phase of my life. I call it “the state of independence.” I was no longer dependent on my parents for food, housing or money. Of course, I knew my parents would never turn away anyone hungry including... READ MORE >
