Stray Thoughts: Fancy

$33,000.That is the average cost in 2024 of a wedding in the U.S.That includes the ceremony, the reception, the dance, etc.It does not include travel, hotels, rings, the wedding dress, etc.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Today, my friend came over with a violin. She is an accomplished piano player, but violin is new to her. She taught herself by messing around until some of the notes started sounding right.

How to prevent sudden death

My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing until the team arrived.

LETTER TO EDITOR

Dear Editor, Congratulations to Jon Flatland for the best photo I have ever seen of a bull riding event at a rodeo (Front page, May 30, 2024 Timber Lake Topic).My late husband Bud Wishard rode rough stock in the Timber Lake rodeos and other local towns around there in 1947 through 1949.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

A friend of mine recently took a whirlwind trip to Ireland. While walking through a park in Dublin, she met an Irish wolfhound named Seamus and fell immediately and deeply in love. Upon her return, she began researching the breed, and has not stopped thinking about them since.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

On June 1st, we hosted a big community event – the arrival of a small herd of bison to a ranch at the outskirts of our little town of Bison, SD – by gathering together to sing, dance, and practice some oldfashioned neighboring in the front yard of our new house.

Kindness is the best medicine

My name is Joanie Holm. I am a certified nurse practitioner in Brookings, and I am the person fortunate to have been the life partner of the original Prairie Doc, Richard P. Holm, M.D. Rick and I were married for 40 years before his passing in March of 2020.

Early Intervention

It has been a few years since my children were babies! Having spent my youth as a babysitter and a career in pediatrics, I was pretty comfortable in watching the development of babies, toddlers and young children. ( Teenagers are another story for another day!!

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Last night, I couldn’t sleep. The wind was howling with a voice it usually reserves for winter and lashing rain so forcefully against the windows I kept thinking it must be hail. All my tomato starts were lined up beside the house covered with a blanket. Would they still be alive in the morning?

Stray Thoughts: Under the Dog Tags

I don’t know who you lost. You don’t know who I have lost.But in these small communities we have all lost someone.A great grandfather in a World War. A grandfather in the Pacific or in Korea. A father, an uncle, a son in Vietnam, or someone in a more recent conflict.