With gas prices bouncing around like a caffeinated kangaroo and my old Impala drinking a tank a week and bombarding me with fix me messages,...

  My Salty Fair Lady Margo and her Grand Champion Butter  Margo Hanson loved county fairs. She grew up on a farm near West Bend, Wisconsin, ...

    Black Haw  Black cherry   Prairie  Wild Iris in the swamp Siberian Crabs are dying 

  Covid TP Blues   April 1, 2020, was the day that Covid worries really came to our farm!  “Half of the stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin ar...

  It has been 8 weeks since Margo died, February 6th. 2025. It has been a difficult adjustment after 53 years of living and doing almost ev...

  Behind the Curtain         The country school audience watched two first graders on wood plank stage, singing to each other.   Susan; “I...

    A Plethora of Ninety Year Olds    Russ Hanson     Written December 9, 2007 for the Inter-County Leader newspaper column River Road Rambl...

The Corner Bar There was a corner tavern in Barton, on the north edge of West Bend, Wisconsin, just a block away from my efficiency apartmen...

Efficiency?   After the funeral of my sister-in-law, March 14, 2025, and our drive to West Bend, WI to attend, a wave of nostalgia washed ov...

  Hugs    “Hugs can have many benefits, including reducing stress and pain, boosting the immune system, and improving cardiovascular health....