During my walk this morning along the paved back road north of the Farm, I came to one of those black and orange woolly bear caterpillars ...

  Opening Margo’s Hope Chest When Margo and I married in 1972, she brought with her a cedar hope chest. I opened it last week for the firs...

 Three months ago Scott and I bought a 2015 Nissan Leaf electric car with 36,000 miles on it and an 80 mile range.  It cost $3800 plus $300 ...

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...