Magnetic North
Contributor(s):
Vicki Biggs-Anderson
Vicki lives with her husband, Paul, on a nearly 100-year-old homestead in Colvill. She shares this special place with six goats, one guard llama, about two dozen laying hens, a few difficult geese and ducks, seven angora rabbits, a house cat and one yellow Lab. Besides feeding and changing "sheets" for all of the above, Vicki is mining her ten-plus years of columns for the old News-Herald for a book/situation comedy. Listen at your convenience by subscribing to a podcast.
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Magnetic North: Return from LaLa Land
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, a place I find so hard to leave that only grandchildren and my only child, their mother, could pull me away. Yes, even in March.
Magnetic North: Ruminating on ruminates
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where winter’s grip is loosening, day by day, drip by drip, and we who count the hours of daylight wax poetic…over just about anything.
Magnetic North: Dirt and auroras - all in one week
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where some old friends not seen for waaaay too long appeared this week.
Magnetic North Feb. 18: Tween time up north
-Welcome back to Magnetic North. It’s the “tween” season, a funky time in the north country. A time to test one’s mettle.
Magnetic North Feb. 3: Math and chickens just don’t mix
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where dreams of green grass and balmy breezes come to life on the pages of catalogs.
Mysteries can’t be Googled
-Welcome back to Magnetic North on Jan. 21, where winter nights are filled with stars and song and mystery.
Nothing nosy about counting noses
-Welcome back to Magnetic North on this fine Jan. 7, where counting noses and beaks every day and every decade is the start and end to my days. Six, one, seven, two, five and 13. Good.
Magnetic North Dec. 31, 2009: Snow and Ice
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where the first decade of the millennium is slip-sliding away on a solid sheet of ice.
Magnetic North Dec. 23, 2009: Wood burning magic
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, a whiter and brighter and softer walking place since our recent snowfall. My kick sled is fired up and ready to go. No more clunky trudges to the mailbox.
