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- Walnut Bars
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] 1/2 cup butter 1 cup shortening 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 3 cups flour 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 3 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 1/2 cups cho...
- Writing Your Life Stories
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Remember the time that you got into 'big trouble' when you were a kid because. . .? Or what about the time that your little sister. . .? Or how about the time that your mom was making. . .and burned ...
- How to Tame Wild Kittens
[Pets:Cats] Over the past several years, the wild mother cat who has taken up residence in our barn in rural Wisconsin has given me many opportunities to figure out how to tame wild kittens. The mother cat alway...
- Book Excerpt: Old Habits Die Hard (A True Story About Animals)
[Arts-and-Entertainment] One October afternoon as I shifted my books to the other arm and started up the hill toward the house, cows were the farthest thing from my mind. The sky was color of the turquoise dress my mother liked to wear to church, and the air—filled with the scent of old leaves, ripe wild grapes growing in the fenceline and plums that had fallen to the ground and split open—felt so warm that if I didn’t know better, I would think it was summer.
- Book Excerpt: Pete and Ole (A Horse Story)
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Dad finished pouring a cup of coffee and gathered a handful of oatmeal cookies from the rows spread out on the cutting board to cool. After Mom baked bread or cake, or when Loretta baked cookies or pies or bars, they pulled the cutting board out from its slot beneath the kitchen counter and used it as a place to set the pans they had taken out of the oven.
- New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life 'Down on the Farm'
[News-and-Society] Imagine my surprise when I read an article in the April 2005 edition of Reader's Digest informing me that membership in Future Farmers of America (FFA) has hit a 22-year record high. Since 1994, the ...
- An Unexpected Letter
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] It was a couple of weeks after Christmas, and I was standing by my mailbox in the vestibule of the apartment building where I lived in Lexington, Kentucky, holding a letter I had just received. The h...
- A Simple Solution for Cleaning Burner Pans and Covered Casserole Dishes
[Home-and-Family] If your burner pans and covered casserole dishes look like mine did, they've got baked-on spots that no amount of scrubbing will remove. And if you're like me, even the thought of using chemical cle...
- 5 Ways to Deal With Lady Bug Infestations
[Home-and-Family] Every fall, millions of lady bugs (or what seems like millions) swarm around my house here in west central Wisconsin, looking for a place to spend the winter. Actually, they are not "true" lady bugs....
- Holiday Recipe: Filled Cookies
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] From the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm) When I was a kid growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin 40 years ago, cookies with a date filling were my dad's favorite ...
- The Taffy Pull (A Story and a Recipe)
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] One year when I was growing up on our Wisconsin dairy farm, the Brownie leaders had announced we were going to make some extra-special candy at our next meeting. So — when school let out one winter ...
- Homemade Cinnamon Rolls from Scratch (in 2 hours or less!)
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] If I've heard it once, I've heard it a dozen times: "Make homemade cinnamon rolls? From scratch? Are you crazy? That takes all day!" Actually, it depends upon the recipe. I have several recipes for ...
- No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Homemade cookies from scratch in 20 minutes!!
- Easy-Cheesy Casserole
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] I have always loved mac-n-cheese, and this variation is one of my favorites!
- How to Make Homemade Ice Cream (Without an Ice Cream Maker!)
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] COLFAX, WISCONSIN — June is Dairy Month and what better way to celebrate than with homemade ice cream? When I was growing up on our small family dairy farm in west central Wisconsin 40 years ago, my ...
- Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Bottom Layer: 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 cup milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening and sugar. Beat in egg...
- Oatmeal-Apple-Raisin Muffins
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] These muffins are not only tasty, but they're also a good source of fiber. In recent years, health experts have come to realize that fiber is an important part of a heart-healthy diet. Using Canola o...
- Easy No-Roll Pie Crust
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] EASY No-Roll Pie Crust 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 2/3 cup cooking oil (I like to use Canola oil) 1/3 cup water or milk Measure all ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir w...
- Whatever Happened to Christmas?
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Remember when no one started Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving? Wisconsin author LeAnn R. Ralph remembers it very well. "When I was growing up on our dairy farm forty years ago, the stores ...
- Preserve Your Family History by Writing Your Family Stories
[Home-and-Family] Preserve Your Family History by Writing Family Stories "Everyone has a story to tell." It seems like a cliche—but it's true. After working as a newspaper reporter for more than eight years, I know th...
- How to Make Candles Using Old Crayons
[Home-and-Family] As featured in the story "A Candle For Christmas" from the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm) Materials: 1 wax carton (quart) (milk, fabric softener, or orange juice)...
- Sot Suppe (Norwegian Sweet Soup)
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] ~ "Sot Suppe" ~ (Norwegian Sweet Soup) My mother was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants who homesteaded our small Wisconsin dairy farm in the late 1800s. When my mother was a child, sweet soup was ...
- Wintergreen
[Arts-and-Entertainment] From the book: Christmas In Dairyland (True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm) http://ruralroute2.com As we drove along the dirt road north of our farm one Sunday afternoon, the color of the sky reminde...
- A New Way to Use Old Snapshots
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] If you're like me, you have hundreds of photographs sitting in envelopes. Pictures from birthday parties, weddings, family gatherings, anniversaries, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Y...
- Country Christmas Idea: Milkweek Pod Poinsettia Ornaments
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Country Christmas Idea: Milkweed Pod Poinsettia Ornaments At first glance, milkweed plants and poinsettias don't seem to have much in common. If you live in an area where milkweed grows wild, however...
- Indian Summer
[Arts-and-Entertainment] It was a warm, sunny October afternoon one day when I was a kid, and as I walked up the hill of our driveway after getting off the school bus at our Wisconsin dairy farm, I wondered how many more nic...
- The Thanksgiving Blessing
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] “Wouldn’t you just know it,” muttered my husband, Randy. We had already been driving for a couple of hours in a pickup truck that we had borrowed from a friend, and now it was completely dark. “What...
- Ghost Stories
[Arts-and-Entertainment] When I started teaching English at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, nobody warned me about the ghosts. Northwestern — a beautiful, old granite building — was a boa...
- New Ways to Use Old Christmas Cards
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Forty years ago when I was growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin, my mother always saved the Christmas cards she had received in the mail. In those days, people sent many more Christmas cards tha...
- The Christmas Dress
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] (From the book: Christmas in Dairyland — True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm; August 2003; trade paperback; http://ruralroute2.com) From the time I was a very little girl, I had always loved to watch ...
- The One That Got Away
[Arts-and-Entertainment] For years I have been listening to those commercials advising me to get my precious "Kodak moments" on film. And they always make it look so easy too. Well, all right then, if it's so easy, why hav...
- Too Good to be True
[Arts-and-Entertainment] The whole thing had started about a week earlier when I was paging through a pet catalog and came across a section devoted to dental supplies. “Simply squirt into your pet’s mouth and the specially f...
- Lost and Found (A Valentine's Day Story)
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] I casually glanced down at my hand, but instead of a wedding ring and an engagement ring, there was only the narrow gold band. "Randy!" I yelped. "My engagement ring is gone." It was Valentine's Day,...
- Valentine's Day - Where Did THAT Come From?
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Just as soon as the stores put away their Christmas merchandise, out comes the Valentine’s Day items — even though Valentine’s is still more than six weeks away. I don’t know why, but it always takes...
- And You Always Will
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] I opened the dishtowel drawer for about the sixth time, hoping the towels had somehow magically appeared. The brand new towels still weren’t there, of course. “What did Mom DO with them?” I wondered ...
- Thumbs Up
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Do you remember how sensitive you felt about being "different" in some way when you were kid? Maybe you were shorter than your classmates. Or taller. Or had darker hair, or lighter hair. Or maybe you...
- How to Feed and Care for Orphaned Kittens
[Pets:Cats] Over the last 15 years, I have raised nine orphaned kittens. Four of them were two weeks old when their mother was killed; three others were only hours old when their mother died; two more kittens fe...
- Too Young to Survive?
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Eight o’clock on a beautiful June morning in southern Wisconsin. The sun was shining. The birds were singing. And I was on my way to the stable where I boarded my two horses. Little did I know tha...
- Feeding the Hummingbirds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Early in May here in west central Wisconsin, I can count on seeing a Ruby Throated Hummingbird hovering in front of my kitchen window, flitting back and forth, as if to say, "there was a hummingbird ...
- Book Review: Christmas in Dairyland
[Book-Reviews:Short-Stories] Author/Publisher Christmas in Dairyland by LeAnn R. Ralph Published by LeAnn R. Ralph E6689 970th Ave. Colfax, WI 54730 Printed by Booklocker.com ISBN 1-59113-366-1 $13.95, 2003, 153 pages Reviewer B...
- Book Excerpt: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam -- 5
[Book-Reviews:Short-Stories] May-Day! The school bus had long since disappeared over the last hill toward the main road one afternoon when I set my books on the kitchen table and hurried into the living room to talk to my ...
- Book Excerpt: Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam
[Book-Reviews:Short-Stories] When I reached the top of the driveway after getting off the school bus one April afternoon, I couldn't help but wonder why Dad was standing on the stepladder next to the tractor. I had never seen m...
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