The farmers got back at their planting this week, the fields finally dry enough after a two inch rain and made a couple of mysteries for Bruce and me. They started planting…
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We’re coming up on the first year anniversary of the EF 4 tornado that destroyed Fairdale and parts of Rochelle. Here’s something I wrote about my experience which isn’t nearly as…
I didn’t see the beauty of light and shadow on walls and floors until Laura Brown, a fellow blogger, started posting pictures where she captured light and shadows in her…
Here is a short devotional that was published in the devotional booklet In The Breaking of the Bread at three local churches: Bethlehem Lutheran Church, First Lutheran Church and Salem Lutheran…
I walked into the barn to take pictures of Paladin for my post about riding a school master and to ride him again. It was cold. He’d just been shaved. It’s an…
On this Ash Wednesday, I couldn’t get these words out of my mind, or away from my step. “Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not…
When my trainer Amy came back from Florida, she banned Tessie from coming to her barn. There’s been an EHV-1 outbreak in the area, so no horses come into a…
Doors, gates, doors, been thinking about doors for a month or so. I see the gate our neighbor closed to his 300 acres so cattle could walk in there and…
Just as we were thinking about making supper, headlights slowed, then pulled in our driveway. We thought it was our neighbor to the east who sometimes stops to chat with Bruce,…