Saturday, June 11, 2011

All a Week Can Be!

COOKBOOK-Festival Recipes
A ride down country roads in southestern Minnesota to the Lanseboro, MN, Annual Rhubarb Festival complete with a rhubarb stalk toss and songs by The Rhubarb Sisters from Prairie Home Companion fame...

A ride on the back of a Harley Davidson with my son watching the blazing sunset over fields of spring wheat and sprouting corn...

A meeting to "read scholarship" applications and determine the successful applicants at St. Catherine University... 

The great gift of celebrating a dear friend's 71st birthday at the Copper Dome where the wide variety (pumpkin for sure, I forgot to look to see if they have rhubarb) of pancakes and waffles are less than a block away...

Looking out my living room window to see that the hot winds on the record breaking 103 degree day Tuesday broke a large branch of the maple tree in front of my house and being SO grateful that the dying triple maple tree in the backyard was taken down last fall or it too may have been downed by the winds...

Planting heirloom beefeater tomatoes and flowers in pots in the back yard and arranging them on a rickety paint peeling old iron table where the ginormous maple tree once stood...

Trying to get my head around temperatures that went from 103 degrees on Tuesday to 53 degrees overnight on Thursday morning...

"Dead-heading" the petunia pot in the front of my house and hearing the tiny tiny tiny sounds of the brand spanking new Chicadee babies coming from the bird house in front of my den window...

Welcoming the white squirrel back to the neighborhood...

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