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Seeing it all.
We’re finding our way to the end of January, and around these parts that’s a huge relief. I’ve been keeping busy playing music, writing and eating carbohydrates, and after a Friday evening spent...
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Farmers at the Super Bowl.
So you watched the Super Bowl. You saw the game, you saw Beyonce shake it, you saw the lights go out and, among the flashy messages, the advertisements for M&Ms and beer and phones and underwear...
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A boot in a snowbank and a puppy in the house.
And now, for a brief story about how my momma came home one evening last week to find one of her fancy boots laying haphazardly in a snowbank in the front yard…as told by my mother, to me, over wine...
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And then came the sun.
This morning I woke up to another dreary, snowy, cold, white, un-springy day, a husband who couldn’t make it to work on account of a night spent puking and a pug literally hiding with his head under...
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A walk.
In honor of spring and the wind and the sun and the green grass poking up around us, I would like to take you along on my favorite trail, the one that leads to the east pasture from our house, up...
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Crocuses and how it could keep getting better…
It’s officially crocus season, and that’s good news out here on the edge of the badlands where we’ve all been patiently waiting for them to arrive, as if the blooming of the first flower gives us...
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The world is full…
This world is full of wild and thirsty things skin and bones and muscles feathers on black wingssoft petals on pink flowers and stem and branch and leafwaiting on the cool rain waiting for the...
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The evolution of a season.
It’s another rainy, windy afternoon at the ranch. It seems like once the sky decided to open up it just can’t stop. It feels like March when the sky wouldn’t stop snowing. It feels like this spring...
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Listening.
I went to bed last night with the windows open in the loft where we built our master bedroom. It was our first night in our room we’ve been working for months to complete and when I returned home from...
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It’s summer now…
It’s summer now and the days are long, the sun moving slowly across the sky and hanging at the edge of the earth for stretched out moments, giving us a chance to put our hands on our hips and say...
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In July…
There’s not much I don’t like about July in North Dakota. It’s like 1,000 degrees out today, and I’m still gonna say it. Because there’s a breeze. There’s always a breeze. If I could hold on to this...
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What you get when I’m stuck in the house…
Happy Friday to you. I hope you get off work early and have plans to sip cold drink on a summery deck somewhere. I’m spending mine under a blanket on my cozy couch dosed up on pain pills after...
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Sunday Column: Holding on is the best part…
Last week Husband and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. I went to the new grocery store and picked up crab legs, opened a bottle of champagne and we sat at our kitchen table and looked out the...
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Layers.
There’s a moment between summer and deep autumn at the ranch that’s so good at being glorious that it actually makes us all believe we could last forever under a sky that’s bright blue and crisp and...
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The making of a dog.
Remember this little girl? OMMMGEEEE she was so fluffaaaayyy I could diiieee!!! Yes, that was Juno, The Littlest Cow Dog last winter when we brought her home to the ranch in Pops’ pickup. I held her...
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When winter is welcome
October is heading over the horizon and it’s bringing with it all the colors–the golds and reds and browns–of a season that doesn’t stay long enough. And it’s leaving a trail of frost in its wake. I...
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Love and snow fall…
We woke up this Valentines Day to find a nice fresh coat of fluffy snow, a little sun and some sparkle in the air. I was happy to see it, because for about three months it’s literally been too cold to...
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Boot Stories: Winner Winner!
Andrea’s Boots (via Twitter) Today my boots hung out on the floor of my car while I traipsed around town at my big girl job in some big girl heels. I raced around the pavement checking things off of my...
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Badass 4-H Nerds
I’ve had this photo on my fridge for a few weeks. I found it while going through photo albums in search of something else. And then this gem falls out of from the pages, unattached and out of it’s...
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Among the clover.
I wish you could smell the sweet clover out here this time of year. I step outside and I’m flooded with a wave of memories of all that I used to be, summer after summer growing up out here. It smells...
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