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 Dec.17, 2009: My winter drinking problem :)
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where we stagger toward Christmas week over frozen clods of mud and, alas, no measurable snow.
Magnetic North Dec.10, 2009: Beware The White Stuff. And Other Christmas Horror Stories
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where that icky white stuff is starting to pile up. No, not snow. We wish!
Magnetic North Nov. 24, 2009: Thanks given for all things
-Welcome back to Magnetic North just as many are either coming or going in search of family and feast or both.
Magnetic North Nov. 12, 2009: Good Karma/Bad Karma
-Fall. Apples. Hunting. And things that go “bump!” in the night. All combined at our little farm this past month. For good and for not so good.
Magnetic North Nov. 4, 2009: Chicken calendars and other fowl weather tales
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Welcome back to Magnetic North where the gales of November seem to be giving us a break, at least for the moment. Fifty degrees due this weekend and the cattails around the pond have barely begun to pop.
Magnetic North Oct. 7, 2009: Harvesting the Wind
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where gatherers like me are having as much fun as the hunters this fall.
The infamous big bad wolf winds of late September robbed us of electricity and phone service for hours and days on end. But they gave more than they took away. At least the way I keep score.
The infamous big bad wolf winds of late September robbed us of electricity and phone service for hours and days on end. But they gave more than they took away. At least the way I keep score.
Magnetic North Sept. 16, 2009: Can't Beat 'Em? Eat Em!
-Welcome to Magnetic North where we have apparently run out of trees to hug and are now into embracing noxious weeds.
Magnetic North Sept. 9, 2009: Life Lessons From A Goose
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where we learn lessons both bitter and sweet from Mother Nature. Or, as she is known best in Northern Minnesota, Mommy Dearest.
Magnetic North Sept. 2, 2009: Dreams That Feed the Soul
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where preparations for winter are underway.
Magnetic North August 19, 2009: Harvesting Before Summer Comes
-Welcome back to Magnetic North, where harvest started before summer did this year. I think most would agree with me that the first dog days of summer came not in July, but in early August.
