New Years Eve and it is already 7:00 pm -- just have to stay awake for 5 more hours and I can celebrate 2025 gliding in. I have a pot of...

  The Young Stock Barn   In the 1950s with the war over, the farm paid off and 4 boys (born 44,46,48 and 51) and Dad just turning 40, ...

  With January 23rd 2024 the beginning of a 10 day forecast of 30s and 40s daytimes highs, it gets us to thinking about 2012 when the maple ...

  Wintering Trumpeter Swans Russ Hanson I counted 175 Trumpeter Swans, December 15 th on open water just north of Cushing in the middle...

  Chickens Gone Wild  by Bert Brenizer as told to the Hanson boys in the 1950s     “Wake up!” I heard Hattie calling to me through the fog o...

 This was published in the newsletter of the Wisconsin Alliance of Cemeteries in 2023 Put Your Cemetery Online – Free and Easy Russ Hanson...

The Reverend Jerry  (Feb 18, 2011)  My next door neighbor at the state park in central Louisiana had a fire burning and was visiting with an...

   2020 was a year of potatoes here on the Farm.  With the Covid-19 pandemic threatening the food supplies this spring, we decided to garden...

  Picked the popcorn yesterday and have it out to dry now.  I had planned to do this much later, but a deer got in that garden and went down...

  How do you make 1700 Apple Pies? The answer, according to the Cushing Lutheran Apple Pie Crew, is to make 170 pies on 10 different days in...