A couple weeks ago, Emily excitedly told me that St. John’s Church, on the other side of town, was having a community Norwegian breakfast and we had to go. Um, ok. I like breakfast. I’m not opposed to churches. Well maybe I am. But I like breakfast more than I dislike churches, so I agreed. [...]
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Updates
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · EDG, House, Northfield
Hi all. Sorry we’ve been slow on the blog front. Nothing worthy of a dedicated blog post has happened recently, so this is merely an update post. 1) Ellie is a getting a lot more hair. That’s her sitting in a Bumpo, courtesy of Aimee and Ives. Thanks guys (she loves it)! 2) We took [...]
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Granny D. Guest Blogs:
October 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments · EDG, Northfield
Everything You’ve Read Is True I can’t believe I am finally here, in fabled Northfield of Family *roll fame. It’s like getting to go to Disneyland, and almost as improbably picture-perfect. At this moment, Northfield’s wide, tree-lined streets are paved with gold — piles of fallen leaves. (Emily and Daniel have been raking vigorously and [...]
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Have a pig stuck in your chimney? We know who to call
October 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Northfield
We joined a group of friends last night to go to the Cooreman/Lindenfelser Halloween Bash at Northfield Grand Event Center. The Event Center is a defunct theater that is rented out for occasions, weddings for the most part. But once a year Cooreman and Lindenfelser (two Northfielders we are told) rent the space for a [...]
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Wilderness Park
October 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Northfield
On Sunday we went for a walk in our local county park, which is romantically named “Wilderness Park“. It’s a heartbreakingly beautiful park filled with winding trails, steep ravines, grassy glades, tree-covered cliffs and the twisty Cannon River which is the river that bisects Northfield. In Chicago we occasionally went orienteering or biking in the [...]
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Humans
September 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Northfield
Things got off to a slow start for us socially speaking. We weren’t foolish enough to expect bustle, but we did expect people sitting on porches, going for walks, & playing in the parks. We saw very little of that in early August: we would take Belly for a walk around the neighborhood and see [...]
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DJJD
September 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · EDG, Northfield
This weekend was DJJD here in Northfield, Minnesota. No, not WWJD (it’s not that kind of town), but DJJD: Defeat of Jesse James Days. For those of you not intimately familiar with the history of Northfield and the James-Younger gang, Northfield was the site of a James-Yonger gang robbery that was successfully aborted by the [...]
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Tiny’s Hot Dogs
August 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Northfield
As many of you know, I loves me some hot dogs. I know how they’re made. I even watched a show once about it. And I still love them. They’re a bit of Americana I’ve adopted whole hog (so to speak). Eating hot dogs is wildly inconsistent with my semi-firm commitment to eating ethical meat. [...]
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Farmer’s Market
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Northfield
Here is a picture of our haul from yesterday’s farmer’s market: Some highlights: an absurdly tasty pastry, very affordable organic beef and eggs, a purple pepper, snap peas, and beets. Finally, an update on our push mower: success! It is quite a workout, but not unpleasantly so, although Em did have trouble raising her arms [...]
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