It snowed today. Big, fat, wet snowflake snow. Warm snow. (Yes, there is such a thing.) I’m still in a little bit of denial that I live somewhere it can snow in October, and that I could actuall...
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The 2009 Minnesota State Fair concluded yesterday. It may be my most favorite thing about my new home state. Where else can you see baby animals, eat fried food and ride a chair lift all in the same p...
read more..It is some kind of gorgeous here today. Like greenest greens and bluest blues and I can still see the lake through the not-as-bare trees, glistening just beyond our backyard. This is the time of year ...
read more..I keep waiting to hate winter, but I don’t.* Although Minnesota is really trying me today with temperatures 20 degrees below zero. That’s like 50 degrees below freezing. Imagine what 100 d...
read more..This morning we slept in (hooray!), before taking the dogs out to the lake. This time we remembered the video camera. Thanksgiving on Ice from Hannah Beth on Vimeo. Share on Facebook...
read more..Tonight we walked over to the lake and in the past week it has frozen over. The ice wasn’t super thick — a few inches or so — but since it’s shallow at the beach we all walked ...
read more..Fall came to Minnesota overnight. For the past few weeks you could smell it occasionally — that elusive fall smell. But the days heated up like they do in the summer, and you figured you imagine...
read more..Aaron got up at 6:30 a.m. to go fishing. Or as he says, catching. His friend Roger found a hidden little lake near his house that has huge bass and is rarely fished. It’s their little secret. Th...
read more..I’ve only done it for two weeks now, but so far the two hour roundtrip commute to my new job hasn’t be horrible. I think it’s because it’s long due to distance and no direct ro...
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