There’s something about three days of cold rainy weather that can really put you in a bad mood. So bad that even a surprise victory by the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday can’t shake it entirely. Linda got up this morning..took one look out the window..muttered something about building a big boat and then decided to…
“How are ya doin’ sonnybuck?” That was the usual greeting I’d get every time my first father-in-law saw me..which was quite often in my years of marriage to his step-daughter from 1965 to 1972. Byron was one of the best-natured people I ever knew. He had a huge smile that stretched from ear…
I know a lot of you fall in love with fall…but not me. You can romanticize all you want about this time of year calling it “Autumn” but it’s still Fall and plants are dying, birds are leaving, it’s getting cold out and I find it all depressing. While others point to the…
I know where I get my love for cars..from my dad. After retiring from a career in construction, dad shocked a lot of us when he started scouring shelterbelts and attending auctions to find parts for Model T Fords. Then in our tiny garage, he spent hours and hours restoring and reassembling them. Everybody…
I’ve had a couple of seemingly sure-bet investment opportunities in my lifetime..opportunities that could have taken a lot of the financial stress out of early retirement had I found the money to follow through on them. The first was about 11 years ago when our daughter Christy first moved to Phoenix. She along with…
A couple weeks ago, Grant Peterson interviewed Dave Dedrick, Steve Hemmingsen and me for his radio program. We had a great time talking about our years together in broadcasting at Keloland TV.Grant has made audio of the program available on his Brookings Radio website.Here’s the address: Click here to listen in. If you listen..be sure…
I try to understand other people’s point of view..I really do. But this latest attempt at creating an uproar over the state’s 2 million dollar purchase of an 8 year old airplane to replace a 29 year old airplane really has me scratching my increasingly grey-haired head. Many, including a political poster on this…
“Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.” Red Green Alright..alright..you vegetarians don’t get your rutabagas in a stew, it’s only a joke. Here’s another joke that I read the other day and thought was pretty funny: “Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock…
Okay, I admit it from the start..I’ve never been a fan of Dan Rather..even before he decided to bite the CBS hands that fed him with a 70 million dollar lawsuit claiming he was made a “scapegoat” in the news story that led to his departure from the network. I never felt he was…
Every time I see my proudly Norwegian cousin Marty Gruseth Erickson, she asks if I’ve read “Giants in the Earth” yet and gets a little frustrated every time I have to tell her “No I haven’t.” It’s the famous novel written in the late 20’s by Ole Rolvaag about Norwegians coming to America and enduring…