Crookston Minnesota

It's raining and windy here today. Haven't gotten the snow I have been wanting since coming to Minnesota. Seems the wind is blowing all the time here. Crookston is a lovely small town with population a little over 7000. It is a farm town. Dixie Crystal Sugar plant is here. I was surprised that there are mostly sugar beet farmers here and the beets are used to make sugar. I never knew unless it says pure cane sugar on the package that sugar is mostly made from sugar beets. Sunflowers are grown everywhere here too. There is a grainery in town where the farmers take their grains and a train loads them and takes them off to be processed. My daughter picked a perfect town to move to. The Red Lake River runs right through the middle of town.It freezers over in the winter and there are all kinds of ice festivals on the river along with ice fishing and lots of skating. I am enjoying getting to know this town where my daughter and family now call home but look forward to going back to the homestead in a few weeks.

No Snow

It should a crime not to have snow in Minnesota! It snowed for one hour today. I am hoping snow called for this weekend shows up. Daughter is in Vegas on work trip so grandson and I are making orange chicken and rice for dinner. A game of scrabble will be our entertainment. Hope you have a blessed one.

Enjoying Minnesota

I am spending a few months in Minnesota helping my daughter. She started her new job here in August and does a lot of traveling. Her husband is finishing up some contract jobs back in NC so I came along to help unpack and set up her home as well as be here for grandson Justin when his mom is out of town. So have not had much to write about. Hopefully can get back to blogging after having a nice break as I had been in a blogging slump. Looking forward to sharing homestead and Minnesota adventures with you. I have been reading blogs and all of you have been so busy!! Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with SNOW pictures!!! Thank you for stopping by and not giving up on me.

Not Keeping Up

I really intended to post a blog a day for the month of June. I failed. Grandson Harvey has been spending some time with us. We take him home tomorrow and we also attend his daddy's memorial service. Have tried to spend a little more time and give a little extra love to Harvey. More for me than him I think. He talks about his daddy being a angel now and that breaks my heart. Life will go on but his life would have been better if his daddy were a part of it.

Things around the homestead are busy as usual.  We finally got rain and though it will make the humidity worse the gardens are happy and looking good. I made the cowboy candy and will try to post the recipe and photos tomorrow evening. Right now its time to play with a certain little young man in my life. Have a blessed one.

Graduate

So proud to have another grand graduating. Congratulations Hope!


I haven't forgotten the cowboy candy recipe. I am getting ready to make more and will do a step by step post.

Happy Father's Day

Sure do miss my daddy. I was daddy's little girl. The only time he ever spanked me was when we were going home from Franklin to Brevard one foggy evening through Highlands. My sister and I were arguing in the back seat. Mother and daddy both ask us to stop but we didn't.  Daddy stopped right in the road and leaned over the front seat, picked me up popped my behind and did same with my sister. I was crying more because my dad spanked me then because it hurt. He taught me how to drive a stick shift,  how to change a tire, how to change the oil, and check water, etc on a car. He always called me punkin and if he used my name I knew I was in trouble. I am blessed to be loved by my family but there is just something special about a daddy's love. I love and miss you so much daddy. Everytime I see a white butterfly I am remibded you are watching over me.

Green Beans

I pick the first mess of green beans this morning. From the looks of all the blooms  there will be plenty more to pick. I also got another pan full of peppers. Pepper plants are really producing this year.

Looking forward to making pickled peppers and cowboy candy again this year. Have tiny squash plants and lots of cucumber blooms. Plenty of green tomatoes that hopefully will ripen. Need rain so I  don't have to water so often but at least Things are growing!