August 16th 2009 We celebrated our 50 Wedding Anniversary.

Had a great celebration, Leroy Larson's Scandinavian Ensemble, and the Mississippi Valley Dutchmen played for our dancing from 4 to 10 pm. The Munson Family Irish Dancers mesmerized the crowd with their lively soft and hard shoe steps. Sonja, 12...Selena, 10 and the twins Isabel and Miranda age 8 are daughters of Andrea Storhoff Munson and Reed Munson.

Dust of Snow

Dust of Snow

The day a crow shook down on me
The dust of snow from a hemlock tree

Has given my heart a change of mood
And saved some part of a day I had rued.


Robert Frost.....1874/1963

The Road Not Taken.....Published 1916

Earth stood hard as iron

In the bleak mid-winter
frosty winds made moan
earth stood hard as iron
water like a stone.

Christina Georgina Rossetti
1830-1894

#36 in Lutheran Hymnal

Wielsel Creek

We call this ..A view of Paradise Valley

"But the land.....It is one thing that will still be there when I come back....land is always there."

From "The Good Earth" Pearl Buck 1892/1972

In the bleak mid-winter

Feb. 16th....Walked to Wisel Creek today. Water was crystal clear. Saw one adult eagle soaring overhead. Rookie chased up 3 deer, treed a squirrel then he lay down in the freezing water.