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 is […]

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 North Dakota state […]

 
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 more produce […]

Another letter from Ken Muggli:
When folks hear the words ‘North Dakota’ they have preconcieved ideas in their heads of flat land, livestock, snow, cold–and little else.  Most folk’s mental picture of North Dakota does not include sophisticated big businesses using cutting -edge technology equal to the best in the nation. 
North Dakota is a land of […]

A new junior high school is springing up a few miles away from where I live in Mandan, North Dakota.  It seems like it wasn’t there a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden it’s growing right up into the air.
So I had to ask myself where it was coming from.  And it appears […]