Desert Reflections

 Summers meant a lot of hard work on the farm in northern Minnesota, where I grew up.  Feeding the livestock was a year-round constant, as w...

 I posted this on Facebook a while back, forgot to post it here. Maces and swords have been replaced by small round missiles.   Missile la...

Ever buy it, make your own pizza back in the day, 60 years ago?  I did.  Don't recall how I and others in rural Minnesota even became aw...

 Circa 1960, typical family farm in Minnesota: 40 cows, 30 pigs, 50 chickens, 200 sheep.  And, what do all those critters produce?  You got ...

Finally, we have dependable internet and wifi so I can start posting again. We were in Boise in early June, took a 3-day break from travelin...

 On Thursday, the Arizona coordinator for the Quilts of Valor Foundation, presented me with a Quilt of Valor.  A Vietnam vet herself, Jennif...

The projects.  When city folks hear that, they think of infamous low-income housing complexes, often hotbeds of crime, illegal drugs and gan...