A Farm experiance...

A few months ago my sister and I arranged to take by mom and my Rochester Grands to a "farm", but it's not just any old farm, read an excerpt from the website below...

"Nestled in the beautiful hills of the St Croix River Valley, Rusty Bucket Acres offers a must see and visit, farm experience. You won’t find anything like it anywhere else. A visit to the farm will fill your bucket with hands-on animal interactions, educational and historical lessons and a renewed energy.  All the animals at the farm are completely socialized and want to share time with you. Experience the farm, learn about its transformations and make memories". 

My mom (a farm girl)  lit-up and loved all the animals, a the end of our time there it was hard to pry her away!  She still talks about the experiance...she loved it.

The goats love people, the feeling is mutual.

The donkey giving Carson a hug

The cow having some lunch

The goats loved my mom's walker

So much fun for these two!

A Horse, cow, pig, alpaca's, chickens, ducks, dogs, donkeys, sheep and goats,

 they are all male(except the dogs) and have human names. 

There is time to sit in the pasture with the animals, they love to be loved-on, you can not escape them, but then why would you? This is a very fun experiance and I hope to take mom again some day. 

Click on the highlighted wesite above to read about the farm, you wont regret this experiance.

 

On the road to see Andrea B.

Last week my sister and I had a 3 day get-away to Milwaukee.

We were on our way to watch a favorite performer....

"America's favorite Tenor"... 

Andrea Bocelli 

*insert screams, arm waving and jaw dropping behavior.

Andrea performed at the Fiserv Forum, 

it's the home court of the Milwaukee Bucks

It was the first stop of his US tour, he told us he has had lots of time to rest since this is his 

first concert since the pandemic began. 

The concert was more than we had hoped for! 

We also enjoyed exploring and eating at local eateries!

We found an area where the homes were beautiful, we just drove up and down the streets with lots of oohs and ahhs.

So many brick houses with bump-out front entries...so cool.

Some beautiful old buildings

and interesting murals

and sculptures

and original signage on old buildings

oh...and this

and this clock tower overgrown with vines...so pretty

Pizza was great, all the food was great!

YUM!

A fun little "local" coffee shop

We even found time to head down to the lake and just chill. 

Such a fun trip with my sis, we laughed & sang, acted silly and enjoyed our time together.

We need to do this more oftern

Tell me do you do trips with your siblings? 

 

Sister time

My sister and I are 6 years and 10 months apart. 

I can remember the day my mom came home from the hospital with her. 

The anticipation was almost too much for a 1st grader who hadn't yet seen this sister she had been told she had. You see back-in-the-day we didn't get to go to the hospital to see the new babies,

 and the mom's stayed in for a lot longer. I remember my brother Rick (18months older than I) and me running all the way home after school to see our little sister.

As we grow older the age difference seems less and less, but we really do come from different generations and are at different stages of life. 

Once a year we have a shopping day with the anticipation of Christmas soon to come. 

Today was that day...

(Never mind the photo-bomb coming out the doors of this restaurant).

We shop, we eat, we talk, we laugh and this year my sister talked a lot about Andrea Bocelli, ha ha!

We left the house about 10:15am and didn't return until after 7:00 pm 

We got much accomplished, times just flies when you're having fun with your sister.

 Check out this angel-wing-dress Christmas tree, or maybe you'd prefer the bright red tree?

We checked out this new store called "At Home"

 I would call it a glorified gigantic "Hobby Lobby" 

 There's always time for a mid afternoon coffee break at Caribou!

 I thankful for my sister, and for the times we get to hang out.

It's nearly a 2 hour drive to the northwest edge of the Twin Cities to get to my sister's house, but it's worth the drive in that crazy rush-hour traffic

St. Paul...such a pretty skyline

Do any of you have "Sister Traditions"?

 I would love to hear about it.