LETTER

I want to take this time to finally be able to thank everyone for their support, kind words, cards, and gifts that I received since my retirement announcement on March 2 and last day of working for the Corson County Sheriff’s Office on March 12.

Thoughts on a rural podcast and my rock wall

If you want to hear people talk about what a great place this is to live, work and raise a family - try a podcast called The Rural Revolution. The hosts, Brodie Mueller and Carly Pochop, record in Aberdeen. He owns and operates Dakota Territory Brewing Company.

Stray Thoughts: The Person for You

One of the toughest parts about sending children out alone into this world, especially now, is that they are from that moment on more or less independent, untethered, and essentially alone.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Spring is the time for babies on a ranch. A dry, warm spring may find us worrying about drought, but the absence of spring storms means less bottle babies as the bonding process between mother and newborn is uninterrupted by foul weather. Even on the best year though, things will go wrong.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

On a beautiful autumn day years ago, I accidentally came home from a visit to a neighboring ranch with two new barn kittens: Nando, a male with the fluffy orange neck muff of a lion, and his sister Esme, black as coal, with white tufted ears.

Stray Thoughts: Winter Confusion

The snowdrifts in the yard are gone the grass creeps up at last the geese return in noisy flight winter, it seems, has passed But I can’t help but wonder watching on the evening news did winter get the message or is winter just confused?

Addiction…

Bacchus was a member of the Roman pantheon of gods. In ancient times he had a variety of attributes, but modern culture primarily remembers him as a god of wine and debauchery.

Mni Waste’ presents good opportunity

Timber Lake has an opportunity that many communities would love to have — adding some important infrastructure at little or no cost.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

When I first got my milk cow, everyone I told chuckled, and usually asked the following question with slightly raised eyebrows: “Have you ever milked a cow before?” I hadn’t. That was back when I was new to ranch life.

Women’s History, Women’s Business

Since 1987, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has celebrated Women’s History Month to recognize the role women entrepreneurs have in building and strengthening our local and national economies.