No one probably noticed, but it has been months since I posted on this forum. Last May my parents decided that it was time to sell the family farm on the western Minnesota prairie. My wife and I decided that we wanted to raise our family in a rural setting so in one amazingly short summer and fall I quit my job, we put our house up for sale, relocated and finally sold our St. Paul home after a few months of nervous listing.
We now reside on the family farm that I grew up on-320 acres of Minnesota prairie in a 1912 farm house. I was able to persuade a rural telephone cooperative to trench in over 2 miles of optic cable so I am finally able to get online and communicate freely with the rest of the world. We are now trying to decide what we want to do with this piece of the earth. I was a dairy farmer for much of the 1980's-dairy farming is not in our future, but some kind of sustainable, family friendly farming hopefully is. My wife has documented the move in a blog at:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/draeg001/regionalpartnerships/.I just want to wish all of you Happy Holidays. It's great to be able to get back online with this forum.
