As a child, my family and I gathered around to watch Leave It to Beaver on our black and white television while we ate homemade sugared popcorn. So when I saw this birthday card's retro artwork and listened to the theme song from the T.V. series upon opening it, I had to have it. The card's inside message reads "The…

  Dick and I purchased new 3-speed automatic shift Raleigh bicycles today from Cycle Path and Paddle in Crosby, Minnesota. I love their retro look and wide comfy seats. It's difficult to see in the photo, but the color of Dick's bike is a dark green. All I need now is a basket to attach…

Over Labor Day Weekend, when Dick and I attended a Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag, I shopped in a general store that is part of the event's 18oos town's main street. I chose two hand-crocheted dishcloths made with autumn yarn colors and two jars of homemade jelly… one is made from corncobs and the other one from chokecherries. I…

Over Labor Day Weekend, Dick and I went to Rollag, a little town near Fargo, where a Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion is held every year. We volunteered in the "Cooks Car" which, in days gone by, was moved from one farm to the next to prepare food to feed all the farmers that came together to help each other during…

My nephew was married Friday night in Minneapolis, so Dick and I took the "less traveled road" via State Highway 25 South from Brainerd to Monticello, which was as far as we could go before intersecting with the busy big city traffic. Highway 25 lazily meanders through small town America. We stopped along the main street in Pierz 30 miles…