BUFFALO BILLFOLD COMPANY-ROADNOTES-STARDATE 9-11-18 Most people spend a day or two at festivals or art fairs each year. We spend between three and four months each year on the road. That equates to 90 days of festivals each year. I suspect we are nearing our twentieth year on the road. Each day we meet perhaps 1,000 …
The summer road trip ticked off the weekends all over the Western U.S. Edina, MN. Stone Arch, Mpls, MN. Des Moines, IA. Milwaukee,Brookings,SD. Fargo,ND.SweetPea Bozeman,MT. LONGMIRE DAYS! Buffalo,WY.Duluth,MN Bayfront Park, and this week we’re in Sioux Falls, SD. (the closest art festival to our home) . Attending these juried art festivals require thousands of miles …
WHEN I TURNED SIXTY I EARNED MY JUNIOR PHILOSOPHERS BADGE! I am honored by friend requests and yet I am tormented. I make many friends far and wide and I suspect they don’t know my political persuasions. Most of my friends hold fast in spite of political differences. I respect them for that. I started …
TED TURNER The pictures we never took. (Please submit a bison industry photo) We’ve had good fortune associating ourselves with the bison industry. It is an industry that is comprised of ranchers and processors. (hat’s off to friend Rodney Sather and the NBA) Occasionally I have been asked to do some public speaking. I was …
It is early morning and the reflection of sound off my tin furnace chimney alerts me that the flock has grown exponentially. From it, I can hear the sounds of thousands and thousands of waterfowl. I am across the street from Worthington’s Okabena Lake. It has become the Midwest’s staging area for Birders. Thousands of …
It was 150 years ago when Joesph Muck and his brother caught their first muskrats near my community of Worthington. Since that time we have made some progress that has allowed many people to afford food, shelter and employment. There were attractions that brought notoriety to this region and community. It was fertile soil, amply …
I live in a small community in S.W. Minnesota and within our community we have a beautiful body of water called Okabena Lake. I’m a student of history and enjoy keenly the journals of historic explorers that traversed this region in the early days of expansion. The name Okabena is purported to be a Siouian …
AT LAST!!!! We have always wanted to exhibit at the largest Native American PowWow in the Americas – The Gathering of Nations – and at last we had been accepted. It was exciting, yet everything seemed wrong. It was too far (Minnesota to New Mexico) and too costly. It didn’t matter. We very much wanted …
I’ve got such thoughtful friends! I’ve received a few emails, wondering how I’m doing after the election? This is a big deal because a couple of them understand that we share a difference of political philosophy and they have happened to win big this past Tuesday. I’ve been on a self imposed blackout for the …