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2 months

It is peaceful and cool. The ceiling creaks softly as someone walks over the carpet above. You can hear the clock ticking.

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2 years

The last line just ambushes me in quiet moments, now.

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College - removes a young person from whatever has made his life stable - imposes costs that he is unable to really conceptualize - surrounds him primarily with similarly unmoored & naive peers - and tells him that it's adulthood Surely this can't have bad consequences.

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19 days

She ran ahead to the garden on our evening loop to say good night to the plants and yard.

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2 months

You do know you can buy the tools that dentists use, right? Just go ahead and scrape that gunk off your teeth without paying an arm and a leg.

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3 years

@page88 Today's lesson in "how to show that you don't know anything about gun ownership/laws/crime without saying it directly".

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9 months

I read the first page of "The Hobbit" to my 5yo, and she got completely snared. Do I just roll with it, or wait till she's a little older?

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2 months

This image is a political litmus test: do you view his setup with disgust or with approval?

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2 months

my spare propane tank for the grill places me solidly in the upper middle class

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1 year

If you don't spend time with babies and elderly people, your worldview gets crooked

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2 years

I'd like you to meet my youngest daughter! God has richly blessed us.

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6 months

My dream job? Probably "Elite Grocery Store Clerk" The lines are backing up and the desperate voice sounds over the intercom: "Rubus, checkout lane zero" The crowded shoppers hush and wait, as though waiting for the concert soloist to approach the grand piano. I step into place

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2 years

Considering this fixer-upper

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5 months

three friends at a party on a boat at night

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4 months

Six year old daughter has now successfully cooked four (4) eggs and is full of tips how I could be doing it better

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8 months

If you give them a template, chickens will carve your jack-o'-lantern for you

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1 month

My great-great(-great?) grandpa & grandma met on the train to Nebraska. They both planned on settling there, were looking to find spouses anyway, and both spoke German. Perfectly matched! They hopped off the train and got married, built a sod house, and started having kids.

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5 months

I wish I could bottle up five minutes of what it feels like to be a father and give it to a man who needs to understand

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5 months

Imagine that it is 2002, and you've been visiting family for Easter. Once you cross the green bridge, you'll be five minutes from home. It is spring, not warm enough to keep the windows open yet, but soon wild plum blossoms will be sweet in the evening.

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1 year

When I was in 6th grade, my favorite class was "Minnesota History". Textbook covered the geological/natural/social history of the state focusing on towns in the different regions of the state. I realize now that the reason I loved it was because it was really a geography class.

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10 months

In a world that will rightly perceive me as unremarkable, there are three little girls who cling to my every word and action. If carrying out this responsibility is the sole achievement God grants me, it is more than enough.

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3 months

Using "sir" and "ma'am" in public costs nothing and can benefit much

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1 year

If you want to meet good people, simply pick a community event (e.g. a potluck, a dance, a kids day out) and stay afterwards to help clean up. I can guarantee that if you just carry some folding chairs and chat a bit with the last people there, it will be worth your while!

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I’ve owned two perfect vehicles & my dad taught me to drive both of them. My first car was a '92 Toyota stick shift pickup, now just spare parts. The second is a 17’ canoe hanging in my garage. The canoe will, with any luck, never catch on fire or get wrapped around a tree.

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10 months

I miss them so bad

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3 months

Prepping 101: people will want to take your stored food with their guns. You can prevent this (mostly) by hiding your stored calories in a thick layer of subcutaneous fat.

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2 months

@DHClark76 It definitely is a First Presbyterian, but it is also a Peace Lutheran, a St. John's Catholic, and others as well...

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3 years

If you're stressed: turn your sound up and stand under these trees with me for a minute. Happy for the company.

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7 months

After carrying around her favorite birthday present, the 6 year old just learned a hard lesson

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2 years

@nealjclark1 Maybe unpopular, and I would lose some great mutuals if they took my advice, but young unmarried men should probably not be spending so much time together here on Twitter.

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9 months

Feeling the pull of silence, isolation, and snow

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10 months

I really don't need to check the pancake recipe, but I always do so that I can think about Grandma while I make them.

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2 years

Don't let despair hold you, friends. Inoculate yourself with joy. More praying, singing, whistling, humming, smiling! Hymns, lullabies, poems, folk songs!

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10 months

They don't want you to know this, but you can just tell kids "no". I say it basically whenever I want them to not do something. Works like a charm!

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2 years

Feels like the best thing to do is plant a bunch of apple trees

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4 months

The best cure I know for being down in the dumps about the state of everything--the world is falling apart, you know--is to go to the grocery store: smile & greet the old ladies there, chat with the kid at the checkout. Go home and cook for someone: family, neighbor, whoever.

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2 months

my spare propane tank for the grill places me solidly in the upper middle class

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2 years

I asked Mom over the weekend what their garden was like when she was growing up, and whether Grandma grew "a lot of a some things, or a little bit of everything". She said, "Mom grew a lot of everything, but it was all for what we'd eat over the next year. Nothing fancy."

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2 years

@an_appeal_toGod Talk about your soy/chad dynamics! Those new books on the shelf have no chance.

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1 year

Something ancient and terrible persists in the long memory of the bobcat race--they avoid its curse-stained earth! What could be lurking under the pavement of I-90???

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1 year

I love it when I hear little footsteps and giggling on the stairs, then my office door opens and closes behind me, and when I turn around there's a treat. I call "thank you!" to whoever left it, and hear Whoever giggling & running back down the stairs.

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6 months

Dad surpassed himself with this year's "tree"

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7 months

What I saw while wandering today:

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3 months

apparently it's a good evening for birding

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5 months

Internal voice "man does not live on bread alone, man does not live on bread alone, man does not live on bread alone..."

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3 months

If you're in town, swing on by! We have plenty of swedish meatballs and boiled potatoes.

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9 months

By golly if you're a coffee shop or a diner you should be open at 6AM

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1 year

@conan_esq "You want a warm-up, hon?" "Only if it's from you, miss."

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2 months

Toddler slid a marker into the hole in the bottom of this blow-molded teeter totter from the toy library. I couldn't inflict the rattle on other families. 🧵

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4 months

Most people like gardens more than gardening

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3 months

If you can artfully present it, a whole Cranberry makes an impressive addition to your supper table

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1 month

An empty house always feels sad

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2 years

@tricksyrix A watershed is, most boringly, an area of land that drains to a common point. More significantly, watersheds are the most natural way to understand how you relate to others in Creation! River maps like this should be how we see our land.

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2 months

After carefully and steadily pulling--and on the third try--I succeeded! This was mainly a testament to the power of irrational stubbornness. In retrospect, I wish I would have just globbed glue on it and let it bond to the inside of the stupid teeter totter. Lessons learned!

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1 year

All my cousins are moving away from the Midwest, and their parents are clearly trying to figure out how to be happy about it, how to rationalize being proud of their kids leaving.

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The downside of having a beautiful wife is that her brother is blessed with similarly good looks, and I often have to stand next to him in photos.

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8 months

Where were your 8 great-grandparents from? Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota

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Where were your 8 great grandparents from? Sicily Sicily Naples Pittsburgh Quebec Quebec Quebec New York

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9 months

Are you prepared to ascend Iowa's highest peak?

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10 months

Put the runner in, finally.

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1 year

I don't have the time presently to finish these stairs as they should really be finished. So, rather than slapping a good-nuff job together, I have just decided to do some basic work, then put a carpet runner back in.

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6 months

At the next lane, Brayden's chest swells with all the pride of a 15 year old recognized as a capable man for the first time. I leave the checkout area with order restored, and continue to the next step in keeping our store: "With Service and Quality, Your Local Food Source".

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5 months

There's no way I could ever drive a street sweeper, because I would need to keep on stopping to save the interesting things. Most of the time they would turn out to be garbage, but, think of the stories told by the winter's detritus:

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9 months

Whenever I'm cooking with one of my kids, I let her smell all the herbs and spices, taste whatever I'm tasting, and prompt her for thoughts on it.

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8 months

If a friend of yours had an acre or two on which to plant apple trees, how should he figure out the appropriate varieties?

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2 years

Soapmaking thread! I want to test out a soap recipe with only beef tallow and lye. I rendered the tallow earlier this week, so we're set. I'm a total novice, so this is experimental. Recipe & process:

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25 days

Had never seen a firefly larva before. Looks like it would be absolutely incredible ice fishing bait.

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When Mrs Rubus and I moved into our first apartment after our honeymoon, we celebrated with pizza rolls and beer. It's become the tradition on the first night at every new place. More plates at the table now, and no beer this time for Mrs Rubus because of #4 !

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2 years

🚨 ALERT!!! 🚨 Mrs. Rubus sent these pictures (of her grandpa's place) to me, because she thought that "your Twitter friends might like them". Was she wrong or right???

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3 years

The Beef Thread One man's adventure in learning how to slaughter and butcher a beef cow. Updates as they happen.

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2 months

6 am rainy walk, a thread

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1 year

Sometimes the tag on a gift just reminds you of what you've already got

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5 months

Learning to play in childhood is better than humiliating yourself hacking through"The Muffin Man" as a grown adult

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3 years

@mariekehardy Wow, very cursing! So emotion. Many persuasion!

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2 years

This is one of my work computer desktop backgrounds. It puzzles people that I would like to be reminded of huddling under a tarp in the driving rain, but I like it.

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2 years

All I will say about the Yarvin hobbits/elves post: Samwise Gamgee saw the wide world and all its adventure, but then chose to marry his sweetheart, have 13 kids, and be the Mayor of the Shire for 49 years.

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9 months

Girls don't carry pocketknives because they'd want separate ones for cutting fishing bait, spreading peanut butter, and removing splinters embedded under a toenail.

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@BristleBerry

4 months

Would you enjoy some old fashioned Iowa Fishcakes??

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But wouldn’t it be a little funny if Iowa posters made up some food culture then convinced everyone else it’s true and desirable

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@BristleBerry

7 months

Guy tweeting unprovable insinuations about a kid to 99k followers: "I don't want to make this kid's life harder"

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7 months

The problem with No Enemies To The Right is you end up supporting things you shouldn’t support, just to own the libs. There was way more to this story than was initially apparent. I don’t want to make this kid’s life harder by discussing details. It’ll come out eventually.

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6 months

Found an old favorite pair of pants and wore them all day, hosting multiple house visitors for lunch and then supper, before realizing why Mrs Rubus had put them away.

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2 months

all it takes to ruin the Shire is ONE sniveling bureaucrat who would get rid of round doors for wheelchair accessibility

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2 months

The girls brought me a breakfast plate. Littlest turned 2 today, so it's a special treat.

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5 months

It is 1 AM, and I can see a mile in every direction over the beautiful plains as I drive down the gravel road. My headlights are off. I encounter a stop sign, the only lights in sight are from the Milky Way. I stop, and wait an extra minute just to be sure.

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10 months

Makes me think about how "leaving for college" or "getting a place of your own" is, for a lot of people, a discontinuity in their relationship with parents at a precise moment when that relationship should be maturing.

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I honestly believe daughters should live at home until they get married. I know everyone’s got their carve outs and caveats and I’m sure they’re all compelling. But daughters should live at home until they get married

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6 months

Seventeen minutes later, the furor has calmed. The other checkout lanes are open, and morale is lifted. Over the intercom, "Rubus to produce, Rubus to produce". I give a rogueish wink to the elderly Widow Gunderson: "Ah, duty calls! Mary, I'll leave you in Brayden's care."

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7 months

A bright moon makes the cold glow

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2 months

@bobbyShafto10 Church basement, and yes definitely

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3 years

I feel like I might go nuts from the nagging feeling that we should buy land and move. It's always there, making me constantly feel like I'm forgetting something important.

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2 years

There's less Midwestern optimism on Twitter today. Good luck, friend!

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7 months

When you keep a tidy camp, it's less stressful when a storm is sweeping toward you across the lake

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4 months

a pond would sure be cool greenhouses are sweet imagine having beehives a sauna would be neat

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6 months

"Lane Zero, next shopper please. Oh, good morning Mrs. Johnson, how are you?" Startlingly fast, the bip-bip-bip of the checkout is like someone has flipped a switch. Two high schoolers are frantically bagging the groceries. I compliment her planned menu, and smile.

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10 months

Biked a couple miles with 5yo to wash our faces in the cold spring