Hoar Frost painting by God

Can you see all the brush strokes? It looks like feathers...we see this almost every morning, after a colder night, on the window of our patio door. I think it's beautiful!

Winter and Christmas

wow...time flies when you're having fun....well, even if you're not...I'm going from Thanksgiving to Christmas in one blog...that's pathetic but real. I'm putting in some pictures of a past holiday to give you all something to drool over...we are taking the family to Mexico...same resort as in these pictures, for our Christmas/winter holiday. We all very excited. And I baked pappanate (peppernuts) like my grandma's today...enjoy!!Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Thanksgiving

Wow...what a holiday! We had the family home for awhile, and we got some work done and some catching up of our lives done and some eating...good eating! I tried out a few new ideas...a little bit different from the norm and it worked. Potatoe salad became garden salad; duplicated a yummy salad from D.MichaelB.'s restaurant which turned out really well; turkey in the tinfoil wrap instead of plastic bag; cranberry/orange stuffing instead of stove top; garlic mashed potatoes instead of plain m. potatoes; and even a new pumpkin pie recipe and EVERYTHING tasted delicious!!!! Amanda was a big help in the kitchen Monday morning...and a walk later helped the digestion.These are the apple, rhubarb, and pumpkin pies...I use about 3/4 of the recipe of flour as whole wheat flour and cane sugar for healthier pies. They still taste delicious!! These are pumpkin/coconut loaves...great breakfast or snack. They turned out really good.

Albertsville

Well, since last entry...our vacation to Clear Lake...I've been busy again. My sisters and I went on a shopping trip to .....yep, you guessed it...Albertville's Outlet Mall. We shopped, and shopped, and picked up some great bargains, and had a good time connecting with each other again too. It's not that we live far apart, but our busy lives keep us from seeing each other oftener, and we make it a priority to spend a day together every spring and every fall, just this fall it was an extended get-together for this trip. We left Thursday after work, staying in Fargo for the night, and driving the rest of the way Friday, arriving around noon. We got some good time in Friday and all day Saturday; and drove home Sunday. God blessed us with great weather for the drive there and for the shopping. The rain started as we were leaving to come home, and it ended before we got home. A little excitement for us was having a slow leaking tire Sunday morning, but we found kind young man who was willing to change it for us. I don't have any pictures of the experience, just memories in my head...not much sleep, so they might get fuzzy with time. I'm glad to be home and happy with my time away. While I was gone, Janine ruled the roost; the twins had an experience loosing their tailpipe and Abe & Matthew finished combining our soybeans. We are finished with the harvesting but have some fall field tillage left to do and the garden still to clean out. Even though we've had a couple of frosts, someone's been faithful in covering up the produce still out there.

Clear Lake, Sept. 2008

Well, last week was our family's summer holiday, and it being end of September, it was more fall than summer, but we all had a good time. Clear Lake was beautiful as always....

Name that place!!!

So can you find your house? Do you know where this is? Matt took the girls up for a ride, and they took some photos from the air...

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heh there....just a note....I haven't forgotten about my blog...just too busy or tired to update it...