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When You Live With 9 Months of Winter...
Enjoy Your Summer!
Of  course North Dakota is not covered with snow 9 months of the year but it often seems that way to me. When Spring gives way to Summer the hardest thing to do is to balance chores with pleasure (have you noticed that I blog a lot less in our 3 months of summer?). In honor of those 3 months (June - July - August) here are 3 of my favorite things about Summer.
While we do seem to manage to grill about 6 months of the year grilling and picnics rate highly among my summer pleasures. The picture below was taken this July at a friends home who hosted a picnic for Minot Toastmasters Club 636. We all had a really great time until a swarm of wasps attacked my son Timmothy (5 stings in a matter of seconds). Why they picked him out of the crowd is unknown. He was right in the middle of us, a group of about a dozen people.
 Camping has always been one of my favorite summer activities but regretfully it's one of those things I don't actually get around to nearly often enough. If I'm lucky I will get out there twice a year. ... more

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