Someone in our family turns 15 today.  She is old enough to take drivers training..scary. I made her a birthday card.  I snapped a photo of...

The  Baby’s Breath is in full bloom.  Its real name is Gypsophila paniculata.  It grows in the ditches here in our area of Minnesota. It g...

I have bats in the belfry..well they would be there if we had a belfry.  Since we don’t have one, they are in the attic of the museum. I do...

Hi ya!  It is I Chance the wonder blogging Border Collie.  Far Guy and I are on our own this summer, most mornings Far Side gets up and doe...

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, I went for a walk on a winters day..oh wait it is summer..it has been chilly the past couple o...

One day at work I was looking for some information for a gal and I opened a huge drawer that is filled with yearbooks from the 1930’s.  I gr...

The museum needs a gardener.  I was told that all the grounds work would be handled by the County.  I just needed to sweep the steps.  Piece...

A double rainbow appeared last evening..practically in our yard. It was a beautiful site that we would have enjoyed longer but we were get...

I never have much luck finding rainbows.  We live in the woods and with no clear view of any horizon I have to make a conscious effort to go...

Far Guy and Chance were playing in the water when a bunch of mean old dragon flies attacked another dragon fly and he was hurled into the wa...

Every now and again I run into something at the museum that I have no idea what in the world it is.  The only clues I have to go on are: T...

Last week at the museum I took in a donation from one of the board members.  It was a bunch of nib pens, a slate pencil and a bottle of ink ...

This photo always makes me smile.  Why?  Because most of the grands are laughing out loud.  Jen took this photo and she shared it with me fo...

Well it is done.  I have switched. I have abandoned a old friend. The computer that I purchased in 2001 is sitting on the work table.  He wi...

We celebrated the 4th of July a day early.  We went up to Cass Lake and then over to Star Island.   It was a really nice day, not much win...

Summer came this week ..it was 99.9 degrees with about 95 % humidity on Wednesday.  So the subsequent days where it has only been in the eig...

A volunteer by the name of Mark and I worked really hard last week to try to get the room that houses all the old medical equipment ready fo...

There once was a cranky old women who left her husband and dog home alone all day to become the director of a museum. She was fairly normal,...