Friends Judy and Dottie  joined us at the Polk County Fair Old School house.  They got ribbons on Genealogy projects.  Margo and I got a ...

My old high school friend Bill stopped  over last weekend to catch up on what is happening with us. He had just spent a week trout fishing...

I entered two stories and a poem at the 2012 Polk Co Fair and got 2 blues and a red.  Here they are Yarn of Yesteryear Sex Education on ...

Margo and I are helping host the historic school house at the fair this year

Margo, my wife of 40 years, has been having tests this week at Mayo Clinic.  The results show breast cancer with a possibility of having spr...

Most July days in the 1950s and 60s would have found the Hanson Boys out in the hay field sweating away whether it was 90 or 100 degrees...

     Stringbeans spilled out from the broken 4x4x4 wood box and spread all around it on the ground.   It was my first day on the job wit...

Attended last night's meeting where we learned about Geology. Lunch is served by the Guys Show and Tell   Is it a Lake...

Several Years ago I found out about a song written by a Grantsburg woman, Cora Meade Hegge, called "The St. Croix Valley.'   I m...