This morning I served breakfast to my bed and breakfast guests and I finished my cleanup. Dick had left mid-morning for the annual "Back to the 50s" vintage car event at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. I thought, "I have no new arrivals coming in today. I can spend the afternoon in my office tackling paperwork or I can pull the…

Dick and I had a few days' gap in our bed and breakfast schedule, so we headed for Ely (Minnesota) near the Boundary waters Canoe Area with a stop in Grand Rapids to tour a logging camp. My goal in Ely was to research the CCC Camp where my father spent time in 1933 when he was 23…

Yesterday Dick and I spent the afternoon at the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids (Minnesota), which is run by the Minnesota Historical Society. We toured a 1900 northern Minnesota logging camp that included a bunkhouse with rows of beds on each side and a potbelly wood stove in the center of the room, a blacksmith shop,…

Yesterday morning, after I served my guests breakfast and cleaned up afterwards, Dick and I grabbed a few overnight essentials and headed for Minneapolis/St. Paul to attend a 7:30 p.m. performance of "Church Basement Ladies A Second Helping" last evening at the Plymouth Playhouse. It was equally as entertaining as the original "Church Basement Ladies" we attended…

  Shortly before sunrise this morning… 6 a.m. to be exact, three bleary-eyed but glad-we-decided-to-do-this bodies inhaled deeply the fresh moisture-laden air and listened to the birds' chorus waiting for an outdoor Easter service to begin. Dick, our daughter Jessie, and I chose to begin Easter Day at a park in Eustis, Florida a few minutes away from the town where Jessie resides. The service…

If you are formulating plans for Valentine's Day, I have a movie suggestion that will be much more than just an entertaining Saturday night out… It will be life-changing. If you internalize the movie's precepts, it will be Valentine's Day everyday. I will explain how it all came about for us and provide a movie…

  Feb. 8, 2009 Today's mileage: 9.5 mile bike ride on Van Fleet State Trail Total monthly mileage: 24.5 miles Bible reading? Definitely.  

What an unexpected adventure it turned out to be when Dick and I were in Tampa, Florida today! I suggested that we have lunch at the Sacred Grounds Coffeehouse located at 4819 E. Busch Blvd. Sadly, we were only able to peer in the window to view cozy little nooks with cushy chairs and sofas on one side of…

Today was an absolutely beautiful nearing-the-end-of-October day. Dick and I began the day by joining a group from our beekeepers association to learn how to winterize our bee colony. We then spent part of the day implementing the process. I'll have a photo tomorrow of what we did to help our bees survive the upcoming…