Strawberry picking in the pouring rain

Jun 13th, 2009

The hazy images dancing in my brain of what life on the farm, in particular, life with my family on the farm, looks like, may need a bit of adjusting.  Last year, everything went according to plan.  We set out for the farm to pick strawberries, and after a few glorious hours of basking in [...]

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Some like it hot, and I’m starting to see why

Dec 29th, 2008

Some do like it hot. Like my friend Kelcey over at Mama Bird Diaries, who shivers her way through the snow by dreaming of sweltering Augusts and painting her toenails, hailstorms be damned. Not me.  Maybe it’s my Minnesota roots, but I like it when a blast of brisk air demands I throw on an [...]

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