I keep thinking that I’m about to get back into the blogging swing, and then there’s yet more work to be done before we settle in for winter. This weekend and the next two should be the last big pushes with the end of canning and hopefully a break in the rain to put the [...]
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Have I told you about my cousin Andy who’s serving with the Peace Core in Senegal? No? Well gosh, I really should have! Andy left for Senegal in 2007 and recently re-signed to stay for a third year as a videographer. He’s done some amazing work in Kedougou in the southeastern corner of Senegal and [...] My grandfather passed away almost 10 years ago (wow it doesn’t seem that long!) and left behind a legacy that we’re all living in our own way. In cleaning out somewhere last spring my mom found an assortment of squash and melon seeds that he’d saved many years ago. She sent me a few and [...] I’ll be back posting tonight. In the meantime, the anticipation of my granma’s pecan rolls, currently rising on the counter, is enough to kill me. Out to dig fence post holes until they’re ready to go in the oven… On a bit of a whim, my dad came to visit this weekend on his way home to MN from San Jose. He arrived Friday afternoon in time for happy hour and dinner out with friends Pete and Cara at The Trumpeter in Mt Vernon. Good food and nice ambience, I’m sure we’ll go back. A [...] Ever feel like life is going a million miles an hour and no matter how hard you try you just can’t keep up? There’s a lot going on around here and every night I try to decide what to write and end up with nada - hence the silence. What’s going on you ask? Well, lots! [...] What’s better than a field full of pumpkins? How about 3 little girls carving some on the lawn in front of our barn? Today I had the distinct pleasure of going to the pumpkin patch with three little girls who had great fun picking out the perfect orange globe. Then we brought them back to the [...] |
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