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Good morning from Collegeville,

 

This two week stretch of weather has been hard to believe.  The forecast is for more sunny days with a few cooler nights than we have had.  Great football weather.  Maybe it would be a good time to do the windows. 

 

On Monday my son and I went to the cabin to cut down a couple of dead trees that were close to the area where the visitors park.  He was sure that if he did not take them down, that Nature would be sure to have one land on his pickup truck.  Due to the tornado that ripped through Wadena in June, he had purchased a Huskavarna and we had all the tools that we needed except the “log roller”. 

 

I strapped on the black belt to support the aging back muscles and the splint for the wrist and we managed to make quite a nice pile of wood to use for the outdoor fire ring next summer. (see attached photo)  It was a perfect day to make wood.  Brother Brian and his wife Jean Marie have been so generous with their cabin, so the least we can do is to pile up the wood. 

 

Seventy one folks showed up last night at The Radisson Hotel in downtown St. Cloud for “MPR Connects”.  Chris Farrell, of Marketplace Money, was the guest speaker.  The folks were very engaging and had time allowed, the exchange of ideas would have gone on far into the night.  Stay tuned for the next one. 

 

Barby and I had a great time at the show last Saturday.  The young men from Bozeman were awesome.  “Storyhill” is the name that they use and also the name of their album, which was named Best CD of the Year by Indie Acoustic Project.  Check it out.

 

The show this week is live from the Fitzgerald Theater in beautiful downtown St. Paul.  Special guests include the irrepressible Klezmatics and best-selling author of The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Series, Alexander McCall Smith.  Also fiddler Peter Ostroushko will join the Royal Academy of Radio Actors.  Enjoy the show.

 

“What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”  H.P. Liddon