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A conversation with Husband…
Scene: Spring cleaning outside the construction site that is our home. We live in the middle of a coulee filled with oak and ash trees and their bare, fallen branches gave me an idea… And now, for a...
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The way it should be
This week the cows came home, and so did 70+ degree weather. When there are cows around in 70+ degree weather it’s next to impossible for people like us to stay inside, or do anything other than find...
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Between “I do” and “death parts us”
It all starts with the best of intentions. Most clean-up, housekeeping, get-some-shit-done-around-here tasks do. Unfortunately, most of my clean-up, housekeeping tasks also end with me questioning the...
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Rain and how I imagined it.
It’s been raining around here the last few days. I’m listening to it patter outside my open windows now, taming down the dust on the gravel roads and watering my flowers. I could just lay down beside...
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Another year…
Last night Husband and I sat out on the deck, poured some champaign and toasted to 8 years of marriage while the steaks and lobster tail I splurged on sat waiting in the kitchen to be cooked. I’ve...
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Swaying to the band at the bar on Friday night…
You are a hammer, you are nails spare change piled up on the nightstand I am half drunk water glasses on the coffee table top You are snap shirts over t-shirts long hair tucked under your felt hat I am...
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Happy Birthday! Love, Your Biggest Fan…
Today this guy here celebrates another year of living. I just spent part of my morning writing about him, my husband, the man I’ve celebrated sixteen or so birthdays with in our lives together. I...
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Sunday Column: On passion.
My husband has spent a great deal of our lives together being the guy, the calming force, the quite supporter behind my passions. He has been the man who uses his vacation from work to drive with me...
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Wild, restless things…
It has been the kind of autumn weather sent from somewhere good. 65 degrees and sunny. No wind. The leaves are changing quietly and, if it weren’t for the magical mosquitos that somehow made it through...
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A full life, a full freezer…
Heeeyyyyaaaa!!! It’s FRRIIIDDDAAYYY! It’s been an exciting week at the ranch, beginning with this: No, that’s not Ted Nugent, that there is my handsome, bearded husband with the bull elk he called in...
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Sunday Column: My husband, the seamstress…
So I found this photo in the archives last week and I realized I never told you all about the red velvet pants. Yes. These red velvet pants. So here we are. Husband and I, celebrating our birthdays in...
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Christmas Card Rejects.
It’s that time of year again. Time to roll out the holly, fill your cup up with egg nog, bake something and send out the Christmas Cards! Now, we’ve talked about our card already here, about how,...
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Low expectations=happy marriage?
Last night over dinner Husband and I got to talking about marriage expectations. I’m sure I brought it up, because I’m always contemplating things out loud with no real direction. I think it stemmed...
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Sunday Column: My great grandmother was Strong Man Johnson
A few weeks ago I gathered a group of women together for coffee and a visit at the pioneer museum in town. I was asked to craft a story that featured farm woman advice for city girls and, while I had...
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Sunday Column: Marriage, beyond the celebration
Well, I survived planning and executing Little Sister’s Bachelorette party. As you can see, I made sure it was epically ridiculous by suggesting we all raid our mom’s and grandma’s closets, the thrift...
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So it goes with love, land and family…
Well, it’s finally here! Wedding week at the ranch. The relatives are starting to roll in, (and helping to mow the yards), the fences are painted, the decorations are in a pile somewhere waiting for...
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A speech for a season of celebration…
We’re a week or so out of the ranch wedding weekend extravaganza and while the two newlyweds are off in Jamaica honeymooning, the rest of us are here, basking in the North Dakota’s official summer...
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Sunday Column: Rolling out the Welcome Wagon
This is the view around here these days. I can still see my toes, but the opportunity is growing smaller by the minute. It’s a strange thing to know that my shrinking pants mean a growing baby. And...
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What we never thought we’d know…
So yesterday, we saw our baby…Or a little fuzzy silhouette of it anyway, a snapshot of what I’ve been working so hard on growing the last few months of my life. There is the hand that I swear pushes...
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Pregnancy: a slow transition into becoming Homer Simpson
So that happened this week. My sweet mother making a mockery of a situation that had my husband reaching into his pocket for his leatherman to see if he could make headway on a stuck zipper that split...
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