"A friend of my sister's likes duck eggs. Every now and then we accumulate a dozen or so and she seems grateful."
Brent Olson
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Brent Olson farmed in Big Stone County, Minnesota for 30 years. He once harvested 235 acres of soybeans in 17 1/2 hours. It snowed that night and he had three cups of coffee the next morning before he put on his shoes.
"You watch kids grow up, become fond of them, then they graduate and they’re gone out of your life."
This summer Number 3 and I have been fighting the Battle of the Buckthorn .
"Loss is a constant for most of us. Misplacing eye glasses is the least of it. I'm losing friends and relatives on an increasing basis."
" I'm afraid we're never going to be particularly good at letting go and sending them off with a smile."
I remember bedtimes. When our kids were babies, I just thought, “OK, I'm never going to get a night's sleep the rest of my life,” and I was mo…
I made beef barley soup last week, and I was really glad I'd made the bed. No, this is going to make sense.
" I think the ability to eat anything, or at least try anything, at least once, is a vastly underrated sign of adulthood. The only problem is, I’d never made orange chicken."
“You're pretty lucky to be married to someone with the Welsh love of music in his bones,” I said. I don't remember exactly what my wife replied, but I think she agreed.
