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Been up since 4am, had to milk the cows before I fed the sheep and chickens, weeded the carrots and moss rose, put medicine on the dog’s foot, let the orphaned ducks out of the pen, and fed the kids lunch…had I been mom! Or rode with Ike to where we’re logging in the woods out toward Effie…trees falling…it’s what I’d do…if I were dad. But that was then and this is… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: "Hide and Seek, "Regime Change", "The Kayak Lady: One Woman One Kayak and 1007 Lakes, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China", Aldi's, Countryside Creamery Pure Irish Butter, FOREST HILL CEMETERY, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Jonathan Swan, Jung Chang, Koochiching County Recorders Office, Maggie Haberman, Mary Shideler, Minnesota, Northome, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Soren Sveistrup
That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou see’st the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west;Which by and by black night doth take away,Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest … Said Shakespeare, just in time for the birthday party. … Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: Family, FRIENDS, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minnesota, Robert Neset
Ah yes, time for another round of sentimental musings about my old home. And many photos. For this round of visits, instead of waxing lyrical over mom’s apple pies and the cries of loons on the lakeshore, and rehashing which of my introverted traits can be attributed to north woods isolation, I’ll talk about our land. My grandfather, Torgus Neset, purchased 160 acres of timber, swamp and small meadows sometime between 1910… Read More
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: BIG FALLS, HOME, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, KOOCHICHING COUNTY, LITTLEFORK, Minnesota, Northome, the "Old Place", Travel
A link to my book,Window Seat, The Story of a Traveling LifeTIME AND PLACE