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A visit to the 9/11 Memorial
Last weekend on my visit to New York City I made a pilgrimage to the 9/11 Memorial. These photos are straight from the camera as I am playing catch up still at home and at work to really do them...
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Canning Spicy Dilly Beans
I set out on a canning adventure this weekend. With rows of green beans and wax beans and more pickings to come, it was time I found a new way to preserve garden beans other than just eating them daily...
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Food Stamps Mom Breaks Her Silence
I didn't look like food stamp mom, but for two critical years I was.You might have a preconceived idea of what a mom on food stamps looks like, where she lives, the mistakes she has made to get to this...
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Our Favorite Farmer, Grandpa Fred
My favorite boot wearing farmer has a birthday today. It is my dad. I've said before that I've been trying to fill his big boots for decades. He's witty. Ruthless at times. Generous. Often running...
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Life in a North Dakota oil boom: Ranching remains
The attention grabbing headlines of the oil boom in North Dakota are sometimes glamourous and other times heart breaking. But the stories in between glamour and heart break are often missed.With growth...
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3 School Lunch Solutions with Linky
There is a major change at our house tomorrow. On what will be his 15th birthday,our son starts high school. He attends a small, rural school in North Dakota with 19 kids total in his class. There will...
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Ridding myself of blogging guilt: Firsts
It's been a week of firsts at our house. But I am REALLY behind on sharing them. For the first time in my blogging life I am attempting to rid myself of blogging guilt. Actually I have been trying to...
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Life in the North Dakota Oil Boom: Raising a family
I am honored to have my friend, Teresa, guest blogging about raising a family in the North Dakota oil boom today. This is the real life, real story of the impact of the oil boom on a family. The first...
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107 years of life to celebrate
It's a monumental day that will be quietly celebrated on the North Dakota prairie today. But you can join in...by honoring the oldest living woman I know.She has been with me through all milestones in...
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Creating Change Starts With You
Oprah often makes me roll my eyes. But at times on long drives across the prairie, I listen to "Oprah Radio" on Sirius/ XM radio. Last night she said something like "Change comes with you, showing...
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Where Non-GMO pinto beans are grown
With fall soon upon us I start thinking about Fall Food (which I even created a Pinterest board about last year.) Fall gets me to restart meal planning after a hap hazard summer. I love easy Crock-Pot...
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Living in a fly over state
Tonight my friend Megan and I were outside watching our kids play. All of the sudden Miss A was shouting at the sky. Her friend Miss K immediately stopped to look up to see what Miss A spotted. In her...
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Ranch wedding with German food & a team of horses
The girls and I got all gussied up in our best boots for a ranch wedding of friends yesterday afternoon. My friend Sarah was the photographer at the wedding and borrowed by camera for her husband to...
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A visit to the 9/11 Memorial: Move forward. Never forget.
Just over a month ago I visited the 9/11 Memorial. You can read about my visit and why I think every American should visit if given the opportunity. Today I pause to honor the 2,985 lives lost 11...
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In the new season, the sun still rises and sets
Each morning I drive to Bismarck, I try to capture a sunrise. Sunrise is later now, a sign of a new season upon us. Continue reading »
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Western North Dakota sunset and smiles
Much is reported on national news about western North Dakota, the oil boom, jobs available, growing pains of communities, lack of infrastructure, the need for affordable housing and more. You cannot...
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North Dakota Sunset Sisters
Last night the girls and I were outside cleaning up summer plants and getting ready for fall. Later this week a hard frost will visit our corner of the prairie. The girls both know I love to capture...
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Is rice safe to eat?
A Japanese proverb says, "A meal without rice is no meal."It's true for over half the world's population. Rice is a life sustaining grain. While in the United States, I do not need rice to sustain life...
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Sparkle & spunk with a prayer request please
Miss A is three. And age three is more active than age two. She does not stay still for long. She is an active child. A very active child. Last night the small cab of the combine she was riding in...
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Crock Pot Applesauce Recipe
It's officially Fall. With that the apples start falling from the trees, literally. I don't have a fruit bearing tree in our prairie, former hay field, yard. Someday. But thankfully I have friends who...
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I believe...(video) memorizing the FFA Creed
It's Fall. Football season. Our teenager's days are long with school and practice. But in between 9th grade classes and football, Hunter is active in our local FFA chapter as well as band and taking...
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Jennifer Livingston: saying no to bullying (video)
It is National Bullying Month. Leading by example is critical and today I was inspired by a LaCrosse, Wisconsin news anchor who stood up to a bully trying to take her down by an email addressing her...
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Fall Fun Catch Up
Fall is in full force in our corner of the North Dakota prairie. With that our house exploded into winter this week for a day when the temperatures plummeted from 81F to below freezing in 48 hours. I...
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Even when things get broken...
Do you ever feel broken? But are unsure of what the problem is? You have pain but don't know the source of it? You think you need a recharge but don't know where to find it?I have felt a bit that way...
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Today I am present, in the picture.
Are you in the pictures with your loved ones? Do you search through boxes of old photos just to find that one special photo of you and your mom or grandma? Are you present in your family's lives but...
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