Saturday morning we got our weary bones out of bed early to join our friends, Dave and Jo Lynn, on a trip to Minneapolis to Bauer Brothers Salvage. A warehouse FULL to the brim of used building materials and architectural elements. This place would make American Pickers go ka-ray-zee! Dave and Jo Lynn were picking … Read More
Wordless Wednesday
County Road 7 Zumbro Falls, MN Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:40 AM 7:41 am…
in the yard
Yesterday was a beautiful day to be outside and in the garden. Noticing that the mice and other critters were starting to snack on the jack-be-little pumpkin/gourds in the garden, I made an executive decision to harvest them. Leaving the eight or so ones that were half-eaten, I got busy collecting the rest of the gourds. … Read More
Celebratory ride
Spent a couple hours on Labor Day riding horseback with my boy. My celebratory gift to him for landing a job, getting his own place and rockin’ the teaching job! First step: Introducing rider to horse. then I introduced him to my faithful ride, Layla. After the boy got in the saddle we had him … Read More
Garden beauty
Canned some more tomato/basil spaghetti sauce today with some of the tomatoes and basil in our garden. While I was in the garden gathering some basil… surrounded by the zinnias and dahlias I found myself surrounded by several hummingbirds too by the time I ran in the house for my camera, several had left but … Read More
First time for everything…
After sleeping in a bit on Sunday, Mr. D and I joined our BFFs and headed to the Great Minnesota Get-Together The Minnesota State Fair We’ve been a couple times but this time was VERY different from other visits. Besides not having any children along, we did something VERY out-of-character for both of us. Never … Read More
Bridges
In June we went to a wedding in Literberry, Illinois. A teensy little town near Jacksonville, IL Heading south we crossed the Mississippi River on the Bayview Bridge in Quincy, IL. we hit it up again on our way back up north. At the same time we were driving on the Bayview Bridge a train … Read More
Saturday
Yesterday Mr. D and I spent the day canning. As in preserving. As in up to our elbows in tomatoes and peaches. Tomatoes from our garden into tomato juice … and homemade tomato basil pasta sauce (basil from our garden too) Colorado peaches became peach honey butter We wrapped up the day with pasta topped … Read More
Wordless Wednesday
photos courtesy of Nate Dietzman edits by me
Beach Loot
My. Beach. Loot. With the assistance of my family, I managed to take home a <very> nice assortment of rocks. stones, fossils and sea glass from the shores of Lake Michigan. Yep. I sorted them. It was awesome. So awesome in fact, that I think I’ll do it again tomorrow! I’m not going to bore ya’all … Read More