The Minnesota Farm Woman

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in ~ Mark Twain

HEAVEN only knows, it can be difficult coming up with ideas for a newspaper column and internet blog every week. I often write about my adventures with the chickens, but since I separated the roosters, the only thing going on in the coop this week is that it is beginning to smell to high HEAVEN since the daytime temperatures have been  staying above the  freezing point.  Sometimes it feels like I move HEAVEN and earth to think of something new and amusing to write about, but since this is the week that our taxes are due, I have found very little to be amused about.  Gone are those poor but happy days when we were in hog HEAVEN with our big refund check. Back then, we had no money in our bank account until tax refund time, and now, we have money in our bank account until tax paying time.   I can often come up with something interesting to write about HIM, but this week our marriage has been a match made in HEAVEN,  so there had been little to discuss and/or make fun of ever so lovingly in that regard. I could tell you that having a new grandson is absolutely HEAVEN on earth for both of us, but then I would have to include all 172 pictures of the handsome little guy (the baby, not the husband) , and HEAVEN help you if I did that!  I could talk about my garden, or lack of a garden, because the HEAVENS have opened up ever since Groundhog Day, giving us enough snow for what seems like six more months of winter.  I am determined not to talk about the weather, because it seems that is all that Minnesotans have talked about lately. By the way, if you ever plan on moving to Minnesota, and HEAVEN help you if you do, you had better brush up on weather, politics, and sports. These hot topics are the only warm things around here most of the time. Oh for HEAVEN`s sake! I can’t seem to come up with a topic at all, and HEAVEN forbid I have to start doing reruns.