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If I were camping in my backyard and there was a rain storm I'm pretty sure I'd get up, go into the house, and get a good night's sleep.I remember my kids sleeping out in the backyard and it was a blast for them. I think it usually included friends and maybe even a birthday. Backyard camping is f...

Every year on the Saturday after the first day of The North Dakota State Fair Minot hosts The State Fair parade. Yesterday was that day. Typically there are 200 entries into the parade and I'd love to show them all to you put I narrowed it down to 8 with the feature picture above being one of the...

EXCEPT ETERNITYbut that is not where I am going with this post.Being it's Friday I'm only going to comment on the cartoon itself. This cartoon by Timmothy is/was printed in the Northern Sentry, the official newspaper of The Minot Air Force Base. Timmothy's cartoons written for the paper are actua...

Lured into CONsumer Cellular by AARP and CONsumer Cellulars promise of local (USA) service. Well I'm sure you can tell from my tone I think their "service" is far from helpful. Let me say I liked my old providers broken English service out of the Philippines than the crap CONsumer Cellular dishes...

I have had allergies come and go, only to be replaced by a new one. The first one I had showed up in my preteen years and it was a blessing for a little boy. I was allergic to dish soap.I've never bothered to tell anyone that allergy has passed on (long ago). Then, as a young man, I seemed to be ...

Timmothy's cartoon has me asking: What is one of the most simple pleasures in my life? Nothing meets the same criteria that Titus experiences with grass but I do find great joy in being out in the sun on a summers day.The problem with that simple pleasure is that it's made me get well acquainted ...

Timmothy's cartoon above is ripped from the headlines of our local news over the past month. In Williston ND (a city on the Western edge of the State) a measles outbreak came about from a ND traveler who picked it up while on vacation.The outbreak was alarming and I believe in the end about 30 pe...

YES! The State Fair starts this Friday.While there are absolutely no headliners I want to see you can bet I will be there for a day or maybe even two.The North Dakota State Fair is the largest event in the State of North Dakota, drawing people not only from North Dakota but often world wide.I no ...

Over the last two years this seems to be a regular occurrence making going outside very unhealthy at times. We have such short summers it really is disappointing when we are advised to stay inside for our health's safety sake.With nearly 10 million acres ablaze it's no wonder it's smoky and the J...

Of course pets never bath themselves and likewise homes never clean themselves. In the process of moving the last thing the home owner does is clean their now empty home... at least they should clean the empty house before the new owners move in.I've never seen a mess quite like the one above but...