Last night I began my Christmas shopping foray. After dinner we put on comfy shoes and headed for the Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase. Pride of Dakota is a place to shop local–sort of, if local counts a whole state. The event is located at the Fargo Civic Center, continuing today (9-5) and tomorrow (11-4). [...]
Last week I had to buy a cabbage. Nobody made me buy it; I just wanted it and we had none left in the garden. I revel in the seasons we enjoy, but I’m not good at saying goodbye to any of them. Light freezes, wilted roses, and cooking already with pumpkin are the gentle [...]
When we married–in our backyard under the apple tree–we served our guests kuchen. My husband-to-be and I worked to perfect our recipe, finally (after many taste-tests) ending up with a thin, lightly sweet crust and a custard decorated with apricots and juneberries. This past weekend, on a new kuchen hunt, we visited the [...]
Several times a year, I can be found out at the Hutmacher Farm in Dunn County, North Dakota. Since 2006, this farmstead has been under the care of Preservation North Dakota, and in recent years service-learning students from North Dakota State University have been adding sweat equity to the preservation project. While we’ve had a [...]
Quick! Get yourself to the Plains Art Museum today! April 1 is the last day to view the Misfit Cup Liberation Project by artist Michael J. Strand. Our travels don’t have to take us far to find something to satisfy curiosity. Yesterday (at long last) I made it over to the Strand exhibit, just [...]
Saturday last, August 13, we spent at the Hall. The Bohemian Hall, more precisely, located near Mandan, North Dakota. Mandan is home to the Suchy (pronounced soo-key) family, farmers and musicians. About ten years ago they started an outdoors concert tradition: Saturday Night at the Hall, titled after a song Chuck Sucky wrote and made [...]
Last Saturday we headed for the tallgrass prairie, hoping to find morels in the Sheyenne National Grasslands. We made some unexpected stops along the way. The drive is easy. From our place west of Fargo, we take the Kindred road until it meets Highway 46, where we turn west. At County Rd. 23, turn south. [...]
Sometimes the adventure begins in your own backyard. Here is how the yard appears today, with our poor rose garden and apple tree (where we stood to be married) drowning in Sheyenne waters. Our Easter started out perhaps differently than yours. We’ve been having some water problems due to overland flooding, [...]
