The school buses are on the move again… This photo was taken by Dispatch photograper Kelly Humphrey last year at the start of the school year and appeared in the newspaper on September 9, 2009. I love how the children have a look reminiscent of the animation in the movie Polar Express.

So very pretty…   two big bins of salt water taffy at Cub Foods. I came home with a handful of red striped white taffy with a hint of peppermint… certainly not as colorful but less artificial coloring without sacrificing flavor.  

I do so love this song titled Tom's Diner written in 1981 by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66rDVkaK4w&feature=related According to Wikpedia, "Vega wrote the song based on a comment by her friend Brian Rose, a photographer, who mentioned that in his work he sometimes felt as if he saw his whole life through a pane of…

Last night we ate the last of 8 quarts of raspberries I had picked two weeks ago. The owner of the berry patch called to see if I wanted to come and pick again this morning. Sadly, I had to decline because I had too many responsibilities I couldn't put off. This evening, Dick informed me that the bushes growing…

  This fun page came from a book titled What will I be from A to Z copyright 1959. It is a book depicting a different career for each letter of the alphabet. Even though it was published by the National Dairy Council, this is the only page that makes reference to the dairy industry…

As I walked my two miles today tuned into a jazz radio station on my headset, I listened to a 1999 Kenny G digital duet rendition (on his album Classics in the Key of G) of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World that was first recorded in 1967 and released as a single in 1968. I see trees of green, red roses tooI see…

     In the August 2007 issue of Midwest Living Magazine, the editor so wisely stated, "To know a community is to know its pie." Dick and I are continually searching for the best pie as we travel across the country, so we have learned that one must veer off the Interstate onto the backroads to…

Whiteley Creek's signature entree, "Flossie's Eggs on the Rails", was one of three other recipes chosen from statewide bed and breakfast submissions to be featured on a Minnesota Morning's instrumental CD jacket. Flossie, our most prolific laying hen, is understandably strutting more proudly these days. Subj: Congratulations Innkeepers! Date:   11/22/2005 10:18:10 AM Central Standard…