Over the summer I had heard that a new kind of mason jar was entering the market. I had not gotten a chance to actually hold one in my hand until last week. I just happened to check out the canning section in the Blain’s Farm and Fleet in Cedar Falls and low and behold …
As I was driving back from the “20/30 Something Knit Night” tonight at Crazy Girl Yarn Shop (more on that later) I was listening to a Des Moines “Lite” Music station. Now, this would not be my normal choice for music stations but it seemed that everything else that I could get on the radio …
I’m writing this from my bother’s house surrounded by gun parts, military uniforms and other manly paraphernalia with Top Gun on the t.v. It is a seriously far cry from Badlands National Park in South Dakota. If the Western part of the US has a desperate sort of beauty the Badlands are screaming bloody murder. …