Most of you didn't know our dear friend Deeds. We enjoyed time with her family and friends today celebrating her life and remembering our times with her. She was a really amazing person, one of a kind and such a good friend. I will never forget the grace and strength that she brought to her struggle with cancer. As her daughter said today, we can ( Read more... )

http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/Events-Pics-Calendars/Minnesota-Monthly-Wine-Week/Corner-Table-Tour-de-Farm/Read more... )

It's articles like this that really make me wish i had hung in there with my science geeky dreams. This is just so COOL ( Read more... )

Tonight i did some of my favorite style of cooking - something i haven't done in a while. My feet hurt from standing barefoot in the kitchen for a few hours, but i feel good somehow (maybe it's just avoiding the work that i can never get ahead of - either in cleaning at home or the paid variety that overflows each week ( Read more... )

I ran across this article in the NY Times today from a woman who worked through her husband wanting to leave the family with an interesting tactic. Somehow it makes quite a bit of sense. If you can follow through. She says at one point in the article "you probably think i am a pushover" which surprised me a little - i hadn't thought anything of the ( Read more... )

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“Here’s an analogy,” Balzer said. “A hundred years ago, chicken for dinner meant going out and catching, killing, plucking and gutting a chicken. Do you know anybody who still does that? It would be considered crazy! Well, that’s exactly how cooking will seem to your grandchildren: something people used to do when they had no other choice. Get ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701082.html

"Merce Cunningham, the avant-garde choreographer whose unorthodox approaches and discoveries throughout a six-decade career made him one of the most important artists of the 20th century, influencing filmmakers and directors as well as choreographers worldwide, died ( Read more... )

I thought i would pass along a link to a great article in this months Mn Monthly mag - by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl ( Read more... )

OMG - http://www.tourdefarmmn.com/ - SOOO Much Tasty Pork!!!

I really hope that this was the 1st Annual of this event - it was amazingly fun, tasty and even a chilly rainy June day couldn't bring us down!

I have been signing emails and cards with a  "hugs" for years and years ( Read more... )