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Wordless Wednesday: 4-H Pledge

January 26, 2012

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Yes, I'm the worse blogger ever!

August 10, 2011
Let's see. If I can just get through State Fair–Farm Progress Show–New Website Launch, I might get back to posting!

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Everything But the Squeal

April 26, 2011

Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork products, from bullets to artificial hearts.

Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.

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Wordless Wednesday

April 20, 2011





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Wordless Wednesday: Gotta Pop Out!

March 10, 2011

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Fat Tuesday, Aunt Jemima & Me

March 8, 2011

How can I properly celebrate Fat Tuesday if I use Aunt Jemima pancake mix?

You’re right. That’s an awfully confusing opening line. Let me back up.

Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras in French, refers to the last day of gobbling up rich, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season. It’s also known as Pancake Tuesday, because making pancakes would use up all the fat, eggs, sugar and dairy in the house. In the “good old days,” these were no-no foods during Lent.

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Mom's BBQ & Cows from Brazil

January 28, 2011

Three grocery stores! My very patient, very understanding husband went to three grocery stores to find the secret ingredient in my Mom’s world famous barbecue – corned beef!

Why am I telling you the secret ingredient? It’s not that we won’t share the recipe with folks outside of the family… it’s that we keep it a secret from my Dad.

See, when I was about 13, Dad walked into the kitchen and saw can of corned beef that Mom was adding to the dish. “Germany! We don’t need to be...


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Grain Barge Battles Icy Illinois River

January 26, 2011

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Wordless Wednesday – Winter Windmills

January 19, 2011



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Jamestown, No Food & Grandpa Eddie

January 16, 2011

Families can be embarrassing.
Admit it. At some moment in your life, you have been embarrassed by your family, right? But am I being petty if I’m disappointed by a relative who died 400 years ago?

This weekend, I discovered that my great grandpa (times 12) was one of the first 104 Jamestown settlers. Edward Morris, forever more to be known as Grandpa Eddie, was a Welsh gentleman who landed in Virginia in May 1607… and was dead by August.

I’m not ashamed that he died so quickly. In ...


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@Mary Ellen Fricke
Danville, IL

I'm a self-proclaimed #agnerd, who remembers her first big-girl t-shirt. It read “Proud to be a Farmer’s Daughter.” Over the years, the shirt may have faded, but my passion for promoting family farming hasn’t. 


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