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Good morning from Collegeville,

The trip to Sun Valley and Bozeman was wonderful. I renewed a few sponsorship agreements and signed up some new underwriters. I always enjoy spending time with Aunt Maggie in Bozeman. She is a great story teller. When she was a child her mother did not have time to throw a birthday party one year, so Maggie decided to invite her friends to come on a Saturday afternoon on her own. When her friends started to show up, all dressed up and bearing gifts, her mother told Maggie’s father that he had better go to the store and get some cake and ice cream. That year Maggie got a real good “Birthday Spanking”.

The weather this week in central Minnesota has been great. I took some vacation time yesterday and harvested the garden in Upsala. I did not spend a lot of time keeping up with the weeds this year and so it was necessary to run the riding lawn mower over it after I picked the Acorn Squash and dug out the horse radish. I would like to find someone with a small tractor and a one-bottom plow to turn the dirt and start over, but they are as rare as hen’s teeth. I may have located someone to fix up the ancient Roto-Til tiller that I traded an antique table for and deal with it that way. My back aches a little bit even though I wore the black belt. If you would like to try making horse radish, give me a call.

Tomorrow you have a chance to buy a piece of lakeshore on Lake Superior. Go to www.schultzauctioneers.com

On Tuesday October 14th you can meet MPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent, Chris Farrell at a reception at The Radisson Hotel in St. Cloud. go to www.mpr.org/stcloud to register for this free event.

Tomorrow night is the Gala at The Paramount Theater in downtown St. Cloud. The Fabulous Armadillo’s are on stage at 7:30. The reception is at 5:30. 259-LINE.

The show this week is live from The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Special guests include legendary New Orleans night tripper, Dr. John and the Lower Nine Eleven plus Jearlyn Steele and Andra Suchy. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors will present your favorite skits.

“Remember, what you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will be yours forever.” Henry van Dyke