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My husband whisked me away for a spring getaway last week. A leisurely, romantic drive, then a hotel.
I know. Hard to believe. A grain farmer? Away from the farm, overnight? In the middle of spring seeding? Especially this year, with such cold weather and a late start. And Brad only had 230 acres in the[...]

My mother gave me a new cookbook for Christmas this year. It’s called “Good Cookin’ with the L.A.W.”
No, we haven’t been reduced to selling cookbooks to fund policing in rural Saskatchewan (yet).
L.A.W. is short for “Lacadena Area Women (and Friends).”
Since Lacadena, the west-central Saskatchewan community where I grew up, has a population of two (or[...]

Here are four things I dread about April. 
1. Becoming a single mom
All farms are different. But generally, on grain farms, April marks the time of year when farmers boot things into high gear. Many farmers that had flexible schedules and reasonable work days all winter are suddenly putting in long hours and organizing their schedules[...]

After zipping up my warmest coat for the third day in a row, I started daydreaming about a vacation. But how much would it cost?
Farm business getaways
Like (almost) any farmer would, I started wondering if we could write off at least some of the costs of a trip to a sunny place this winter. Then[...]

Things are sort of slow on our farm this time of year. We’ve all settled into the fall kindergarten routine. My husband has started up his seed cleaning plant for another winter of business. I’m catching up on some bookkeeping. There’s some farm shows and meetings to get to, but not this week. And it’s[...]

When our phone rang at 6:45, we knew who it would be before my husband picked it up. “Just as well,” I heard my husband say. “I wasn’t looking forward to going out there to move enough snow out of the lane so you could turn around in the yard.” It was too dangerous for[...]