I was staring at the shredded lettuce on my plate in a Mexican restaurant the other evening. My husband and I were sitting in nearly the same booth where we had our first date about 35 years ago. We had never gotten sick in this restaurant. We all have been bombarded with news reports about ...
Yikes! It is hot – dangerously hot. Our plants in the garden are wilting, and we are soaked in sweat trying to care for them. My cucumber and zucchini vines droop every afternoon. The initial harvest was great, but production is slowing down due to the extreme heat. The vines are ...
“What temperature is it in North Dakota right now?” my colleagues from around the U.S. ask. In the depths of winter, my reply might vary from 0 to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. They gasp, as many of my colleagues live in warmer states. Lately, North Dakota temperatures have rivaled or ...
It’s tough on trees in North Dakota. Bitter winter cold. Scorching summer heat. Floods. Droughts. Wind. And that’s just an average year! Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit. But there’s some truth in there. We do experience many of these environmental extremes regularly. Our native ...
“What’s for dinner?” I asked my neighbor, who was opening the cover of his grill in the backyard next to ours. “I’m making ribs,” he replied. I went inside to get some gardening gloves so I could continue my yardwork. Suddenly, I wanted grilled food, too. When I returned, the ...
Every northern state jokes that the mosquito is its state bird. However, mosquitoes are no laughing matter. They vector West Nile disease in the north and much worse diseases further south. People will go to great lengths to kill mosquitoes. The “mosquito buckets of doom” social media ...
