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Catch The Moment #13

The days have flown by for me as usual. I even thought I missed getting pictures a few days. But between my camera and phone I had each day covered. I even included extras this week. I cannot even believe March is over! I thought I was going to get so much more done. Now I find myself picking 1 or 2 projects I want to complete before we head south. It will be here before we know it! Here are my pics for the week…

During lent, we have Wednesday church with potluck. I walked outside to get my food just as the sun was setting.

Oh Brett. I left the room for a minute and he fell asleep eating his pizza.

Friday we had lunch at the Dairy Queen in Lakota on the way to Grand Forks.

Saturday was a Bountiful Basket Food Co-op day. I love basket days! It’s a co-op we can order from every other week with pickup in Devils Lake. It’s all volunteer and direct from farmers.

On Sunday, church was cancelled. Unfortunately, it was due to our pastor being hospitalized for illness. He should be out later this week.

The guys took a dip in the hot tub before breakfast. I joined them for a bit too. It was a great start to the day!

This was one of my projects this week. I removed the closet rod, cut some boards, screwed them to the studs, painted and installed hooks. It is so much better! Even my littlest guy can hang up his coat now! The closet was also a test plot for painting our original linoleum – circa early 80’s. I hope to paint the bathroom, laundry and kitchen floor sometime this month. We’ve been wanting to add-on but it hasn’t happened yet. I can’t stand the thought of living with our floor for another year, so this is my solution. I can’t wait to have it all complete!

Brett and Sadie making the slow trek to the shop across the slippery rough ice in our yard. The poor dogs have been wiping out all week on it.

I have some extras for this week, with things starting to get crazy busy around here I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep up with this regularly.

Tuesday we met Mick just as he was coming down the hill headed for home. He was hauling wheat to the ND Mill in Grand Forks. It’s 140 mile drive and usually means sitting in line all day. Currently he has only been able to haul about once a week. He takes a load whenever they will let him. The ND Mill is the only place around taking wheat and only on certain days for farmers. The other days are for area elevators to haul. There is a huge train shortage in North Dakota affecting grain transportation. It is due to train delays and the oil boom in western North Dakota.

We went flying for a little bit on Tuesday afternoon. This is downtown Hannah, ND. I was standing in front of the sea-green building in the center when I took my first picture above.

This is our yard from the mailbox during the snow melt.

This was taken through our pickup windshield on Friday. For about 20 minutes the sun had a full circle around it. It’s called a 22° halo and from what I’ve been reading is the same concept as sun-dogs.

I drove Max to school one day so he could sleep in. The sun was rising in my mirror on our way.

Do Something Amazing Today!

Erica

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Catch The Moment Week #12

The theme for the week is spring and it sure doesn’t feel like spring around here. I think we may have had one day above freezing all week. The birds are starting to make their appearance in the area. We even saw snow geese by Devils Lake, ND. The snow is still leaving us with the intense rays from the sun, believe it or not! Here are my pics from the week…

It turns out our granddaughter, Mollie-Jayne is like the rest of the girls in the family. She loves eating at the Japanese steak house too! I think she had 3 plates of noodles!

Sadie Sadie Sadie. She fell asleep with her head in my purse.

The boys had a haircut day. This is the shortest time they’ve gone in between cuts – only 3 months!

Saturday we headed north to Canada for parts. I love the signs they use. We don’t have cool signs like this to get the point across.

Sunday afternoon we went for an airplane ride. Below is Frost Fire Mountain Ski Area in the Pembina Gorge.

Yet another one of my sunrise pictures as it was about to emerge from the horizon.

The view from our mailbox. I’ve been trying to capture the snow melting by taking a picture from the same spot every few days. The snow is not melting in our yard – we have one big sheet of ice! I thought it was neat the way this one turned out with the sun similar to Sarah’s last week. I also found that 1/60 shutter speed seems to be the right setting on my 18-55mm lens for the sun-rays. The little specs in the sky are from my pitted windshield and a lens flare. I dug out my 18-55mm lens this week, it had been neglected and not used for quite a few months. Sometimes we all need a new perspective!

Mindi posted a video about Challenge 2 – Shutter Speed last week. This is my capture for the shutter speed challenge. I hope to play with motion blur more in the future. It didn’t come out quite as I had hoped, but it was still a great learning opportunity!

Hope you’re having a great week!

Erica

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Week #11 Catch the Moment 365

March 12 – March 18, 2014

We’ve had an incredibly busy week around here! I didn’t end up with any decent pictures of the kids, but miraculously I managed to get a picture everyday. We had a couple thawing days this week, but there is still plenty of snow in northern North Dakota! Snow must have been my theme for the week. I have lots of snow pictures! We are ready for it to be gone and enjoy the warm days of spring!

We had a road trip day Wednesday for appointments. This was one of the many herds of deer we came across. They were out eating everywhere we looked. There are a lot of deer in the area this year – I see hundreds in my travels. They really like to cross the road in the dark!

I know this is such an ugly picture, but it is reality. This is what northern North Dakota looks like in March. The big pile of snow along the north tree line is my garden – buried! It’s going to take a while for it to melt and dry up! I can’t wait!

Coming in for a landing! This is our grass strip runway – even though it is brown, it is the only grass you will see around here this week. You can see there are some bare spots starting to appear in the surrounding field. We had wheat growing in the field last year. Our farm is to the north in the trees. It won’t take long for the snow to melt if we could have a few warm days.

The sunrise from my kitchen window. I love our North Dakota sunrises – my husband doesn’t understand my obsession. He thinks I have way too many sunrise pictures. Obsession or not, I love watching the sunrise & set here! The theme for the week was lucky. I feel very lucky and blessed to call North Dakota home and see these beautiful sunrises and sunsets throughout the year.

We had a snow squall move through Sunday afternoon. Our yard is very protected, but for awhile we had terrible visibility. It came as quick as it went, but had an ugly presence.

Monday night I attended Ladies Ag Night in the next county over. Katie Dilse – Speaker Extraordinaire drove in from Scranton, ND to speak. She did a wonderful job energizing and entertaining us! She made us laugh and cry. Her message was about maintaining OUR ‘grease zerks’ like we maintain our big rigs, connecting and lifting each other up. We had a blast! It was great to hear Katie’s message and connect with other farm women from the area just before our busy spring season gets underway. Check out her site to see Katie in action at the US Custom Harvesters convention this year http://www.katiedilse.com/

This is our old grain dryer from the 70’s. Mick has been busy drying our wheat this month. It is an automatic batch process grain dryer which runs on propane. It will dry 180 bushels of wheat per batch. Our wheat has been in an air bin since harvest with 15% moisture. It needs to be dried down to 13.5% moisture. The dryer is noisy and needs constant supervision – just like our kids!

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