On Friday, August 29, my girlfriend’s 14 year old son, Brodie, was in an ATV accident in Wisconsin and had to be airlifted to a hospital in St. Paul, MN, because of head injuries he sustained when hitting a tree. Brodie suffered complex fractures to his left orbital bone as well as a subdermal hematoma...
Monthly Archives: August 2008
I spent some time today with my friend, Darla, who always reminds me that there’s nothing more important in this world than family. And she makes me feel like I’m a part of hers. Even her dog, Dudley, posed for a photo and smiled for the camera! Darla’s son, Jake, is a senior this year...
What if your favorite charity earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can! GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the...
Explanation from the McCain campaign staff can be found here, but seriously. It’s not like someone asked him how many socks he owns. *JennineJohnsondotcom is not publicly endorsing any presidential candidate unless Ted Nugent decides to run as an independent.
“So what if we used it in the barn,” he argued. “The fire will kill all the germs.” How do you debate that kind of logic? It’s the same logic that prompts 11 year old boys to jump off tall ladders with open umbrellas, or to put their full weight on tree branches with diameters...
A study conducted by scientists at Stony Brook University and reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, showed that mice who sat on a vibrating platform reduced their body fat by 27% versus the mice who sat on a stationary platform. The researchers speculate that the vibrations inhibited the formation of fat...
If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Remember the good old days when summer meant having unlimited free time to create adventures in the back yard? I grew up thinking a sunburn was normal, peanut butter sandwiches were best eaten after digging earthworms (for an earthworm circus) and never having heard the term stranger danger. Even as a youngster I was aware...
I interrupt regularly scheduled Internet broadcasting to bring you the following marital disagreement: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for $3.25 a gallon? Because at 12 gallons per week our milk budget is $2028 per year and that doesn’t include butter and cheese or the cost of gas going to the...
Today Elly made her singing debut at an Art and Music Festival in Central Park. She sang in front of her peers, not to mention the several hundred people walking through the festival. I was so proud of how well she did! People clapped for a long time after she finished her Taylor Swift song....
I was invited to golf in a Chamber of Commerce golf tournament last Thursday with four women from work. Sounds normal enough, right? Except that I have never golfed, I don’t understand golf and I religiously make fun of people who golf. Shotgun start? Best ball? Huh? Yet there I was on the field with...
It’s nice to have babies on the farm again even though they aren’t the bovine kind. Did you know that hatcheries send the chicks to the post office…through the mail? The post office called at 6:30 this morning to say “You need to come get your chickens.” I replied, “You didn’t by chance get a...
The backyard sprinkler is a universal joy, like laughter and hand milking a cow:
Happy 11th birthday, Mister. I love you! The birthday I spent in labor with you was the best birthday I’ll ever have.
Today I had the opportunity to step back about 100 years in time as I covered a local threshing show. There were blacksmith, glass blowing and wool spinning demonstrations; and of course, threshing took place with old equipment that I cannot believe still operates. I’m drawn to the era of the late 1800′s when Minnesota and the Dakotas were being settled by...
I don’t normally give stock market advice* to the Internet but today I’m feeling generous due to the fact that my blood sugar is high and I’ve consumed enough caffeine to instantly kill an average-sized elephant. As you can see from the graph below, shares for the company which makes Monster Energy drinks, Hansen Natural Corporation, closed yesterday with a slight downward trend: I’m quite certain that yesterday’s...
It’s not easy to be the only girl living with five brothers. Boys make fun of princess dresses and lipstick. And all they want to do is shoot BB guns,climb trees and fart into fans. But Elly somehow manages to remain true to her femininity, even when she’s packing.
I’ve lived in Minnesota my entire life and had no idea that corn could grow more than ten feet tall.
Tonight I covered our city’s National Night Out for the paper. One event, the K9 demonstration, caught my particular attention because were it not for my fear of police dogs, I would have entered the workforce as a career criminal long ago. It was amazing to have my choice to become a mother instead validated...
I happened upon a totally addictive game that you simply must try. The object is to click on the number from least to greatest. My best score was 20. Be prepared to accomplish nothing for the rest of the day and feel free to share your highest, or in this case, lowest score.
It’s 12:58 a.m. and I just finished writing a Century Farm story for the paper. It took me ALL DAY and three energy drinks to try to piece together information I collected from an 88 year old woman and an 89 year old man whose family has lived on the same farm for 100 years.Having...