Old Man Winter is right around the corner, and he’s looking for houses in the Midwest to chill. He’s got a lot of tricks up his sleeve, but you can beat him if you take the right course of action. Here’s how to do it.
Guide to Fireplaces
It may be the perfect temperature outside right now, but true Midwesterners know that’s just Mother Nature’s trick to lull us into a sense of false security before she torments us with yet another hard winter. Now is the time to think about how you’re going to keep your tootsies toasty before it becomes too late. If you’d like to take some of the burden off of your furnace while adding a lot to the ambiance of your home, a fireplace is just the way to go about it. This is a primer on your options.
Real Men Wear Pink
The rule that pink is for girls and blue is for boys is fairly new. It used to be the other way around in the Midwest until the 1920s. Even further back, people did not associate colors with gender at all. All children were dressed in white, or burlap depending on their family’s finances.
Fall Family Fun (Bismarck)
Depending on your age, Halloween demands a certain kind of celebration. If you’re over 30 and therefore too old to have fun, the holiday is all about making sure you don’t run out of little Twix bars for the trick-or-treaters for fear of getting your house egged. If you’re still young and cool, it’s all about drinking beer and pretending you’re not tired of listening to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” And if you’re a little kid, it’s all about enjoying wholesome fun with your parents and not getting so scared that you wind up ruining your Paw Patrol pajamas later that evening. Here are some good, clean, and local Halloween celebrations that you can take the kids to.
OktoberFest Mandan
Ein Prosit, ein Prosit
Der Gemütlichkeit
Ein Prosit, ein Prosit
Der Gemütlichkeit.
Oans! Zwoa! Drei! G’suffa!
Cotton Wood
Jill Weise counts herself lucky for getting kicked out of piano lessons when she was in fourth grade. The piano is not a bluegrass instrument, so it would not have helped her find her calling like the guitar she picked up afterward did. She would only play to herself until she volunteered at a bluegrass festival in Washburn, ND in 1990.