There’s a three bedroom home for sale in Garrison that’s priced at about $15,000.  It’s definitely a fixer-upper, but it caught my eye as a good investment for a young couple willing to put time and effort into making it their own. On the opposite end of the spectrum, another three bedroom home in Garrison [...]

I cant help it:  my flowers just make me happy. Earlier today they were covered with lots of tiny yellow butterflies.  Joy! And while I’m on the subject, I just have to say how much joy I get from the quiet activism I see all across the state. For example, three people from North Dakota (including [...]

  I left 11 fruit trees, an herb garden, a vegetable garden and a 6-foot tall climbing rose bush when we moved to North Dakota.  I believed the climate here would be too cold to grow anything, and that the summers would be too short.  I was wrong.  Even though I have more weeds than garden, we still grow [...]