Vacation Week

On Monday, May 31, Mike and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary! After mulling over the possibilities of vacations, we decided to spend the week at our lake cabin in Minnesota. Although we have had this cabin for many years, (20??? can’t remember exactly), we have never taken our cats out there. This is due […]

Pear Tree in Bloom

Today is the first day my pear tree is completely in bloom. The sun is shining brightly on the tree and it looks gorgeous!!!! The next few days we are expecting high winds, then rain, so I had to take pictures today before the blossoms fall off. Enjoy the pics.

Red River Flood Sunday River Crest

Out city has breathed a collective sigh of relief. The Red River crested at 36.99 feet yesterday (Sunday 3/21). There were a few homes that called for emergency flooding overnight–Guard troops came to their rescue. But no major areas were completely lost.  For instance, last year Oak Grove High School, along the river, lost a […]

Red River Flood Sandbagging

Last Wednesday morning Mike & I were sandbagging. Our friend Jackie lives on South River Road. With the river crest expecting to come over the weekend, there was a big push in these neighborhoods to raise their backyard dikes with sandbags. City crews had worked long into the night on Tuesday dropping off pallets of […]

Red River Flood How high is the water?

There’s an old Johnny Cash song that goes “how high is the water mama? 10 feet high and rising.” As the song progresses, the water levels (in the song) rise. As Fargo goes into flood mode, that song always plays in the back of my mind. We officially hit flood stage somewhere during the night […]

Book Illustrations

I have a friend who wrote a book about building an ice rink in his backyard. I did the cover illustration and also some pen and ink drawings for the beginning of each chapter. The cover started out as a rough pencil drawing. rough draft of ice rink drawing I scanned the drawing into the […]