Happy Easter, friends! We spent Saturday and Sunday out at the farm, enjoying all sorts of good food and fun family time. In fact, I think photos, in this case, speak louder than words so I’m just going to share some snippets of our weekend. Miss Morgan received a life-sized bunny Easter card that was a […] Read more…
Weekend Snaps | Hometown Halloween
Is it really November 1? It just doesn’t seem possible that we’ve got two months left of 2015 and we’re heading smack dab into holiday season. But alas, let us first review the highlights from Halloween weekend, which was spent in part on the farm with my family. 1) Cousins in costumes.Miss Morgan is almost […] Read more…
The Heart of the Family Farm.
A week or so, I had the most vivid dream about my Grandma Anderson – or Grandma Inez (pronounced “Eye-niss”), as all of us grandkids called her. She passed away when I was 19, but I had many years of memory-making with her. Although my grandparents lived on their farm over two hours from me, […] Read more…
Easter. Family. Farm.
When life gets stressful for me, I always find the farm a very helpful place to get away. Is it the sense of calm that descends as we drive down the very familiar driveway, lined with decades-old trees and farm fields near and far to the eye? Is it because no matter how old I get […] Read more…
Yes, June Really is Turkey Lovers’ Month!
Happy June is Turkey Lovers’ Month, people! And as luck would have it, today I was able to spend most of my time at a turkey farm, taking photos and videos for an upcoming event we have going on for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association. My coworker, Erica, is part of a fourth-generation family farm […] Read more…
Home on the Farm
This weekend we spent part of our time at “The Farm”, where I grew up. This is where my parents have lived for over four decades, and where my brother and his family also live. My parents built their house while I was a baby and we moved there from town when I was about […] Read more…