Stories by Tom

Cattle Horses and Bison on a 20 Below Morning
​​​​Blizzard of 1972
Ancient Farmall Tractor in Hope, New Mexico
A Boy I Knew from Rogers and His Father's Hammermill
Breaking in a New Canoe on My 60th Birthday
​​Driving Uncle Louie
​Breaking a Horse on a Wedding Day
Canoeing the Upper Missouri River Breaks in 1993​
Christmas Turkey
Cowboy and an Escaped Buffalo
Dave's Crypt Orchid Stallion
​​Farm Animals on a Minus 32 Morning​​
Farmer Emeritus
Finding Enough Good Hay​
Frank Johnson is Selling His House
Gail Fell from a Stepladder October 2011
Gail's Selfie
​Good Food is Colorful
Great Flood of 1965
Harvesting Thanksgiving Turkeys with Betsy
How Home Sawn Lumber is Made
I Met a One-Eyed Cowboy​
IH Book Announcement to Facebook 2019
Isaac Hoover Invented the Potato Digger in 1885
It Was 41 Below on Friday Morning
The Kragero School​
Letter About Bison Class in Hermosa 2011
Letter to the Kids March 2009​
Mustang Runaway with a Bobsled
Native American Art and Ceremonial Objects
​Neighbors Visited Yesterday

• Nicollet's Trail Through Sherburne County
  • Chronology of Minnesota
  • Pike 1805: Pre-Settlement Wildlife in Sherburne County
  • Wildlife Seen or Killed by Pike 
• Passing a Semi in in the Cumberland Mountains
• Part Time Farming
• Reflections at the Charles River​
• ​Snake River Farm Animals on a 50 Below Morning
• Spring at Snake River Farm 2020
• Thoughts on an Old Planter
• To Build a Fire​
• Trapped Coyote​​
• Watusi Cattle Pastured with Longhorns and Bison
• We Are Incredibly Lucky People​
• We Rented an Airplane for Fargo
• We Took Down the Old Farmhouse
• We Visited Pioneer Equipment in January 2016
• We Were in the Big Lake Spud Fest Parade Saturday​
• Winter Customer Day 2018​​
• Nothing Special

It's Just a Scratch...

The Bull and the New Hip
Chain Sawing Without Protective Chaps​
Part One - A Man Can Stay Too Long on a Bucking Horse
Part Two - A Man Can Stay Too Long on a Bucking Horse
​Tom's December 2012 Shoulder Repair
Rehab & Occupational Therapy

Tom's "Other" Career

Pacemakers I Designed for Medtronic
My Day as a New Hospital Inspector
The Day I Decided to Find Other Work
My Day as an Integrated Circuit Troubleshooting Expert​​
Story About a Guy I Fired​
​Rescuing a Seal Pup
Today Was My Last Day at Work​

Stories Of the Departed

Bob Miller Died Yesterday Afternoon
​Buckwheat Died Last Week
Danny Stang Was Buried Today
Florence Barthel Isenberg
Helping Uncle Clarence Bring the Heifers Home
Joe King Died
Maria, A Bad Horse
Melvin Schroepfer Died Yesterday
​Reno Was a Damn Fine Horse
​The Gruella Died

Grandkids

Baby Katrina Resting on Her Great-Grandpa's Hands
Ella at 16
Ella with the Cowboy Poet Waddie Mitchell
Ella Met Temple Grandin
Gail and Baby Hazel then Baby Arthur Gleaning Sweet   Corn
Granddaughter Adrienne
Granddaughter Hazel Training Her Horse Buddy
Granddaughter Hazel Working with Her New Mustang 
Granddaughters Ella and Hazel with Gail at Christmas
Samantha Speaks About Farm to School Program
Saul Called Last Night
Saul Has a Bigger Table
Saul Story About Sharing
Saul Story - At the Pole Yard
Tom and Hazel Driving Mustangs
​Traveling with Ella in a Cooler​
​Winter Chores by Ella

Fairs and Visitors

​​Hazel at the Benton County Fair
​​I Enjoy the State Fair
First Day of the 2021 Minnesota State Fair
MN Grown Booth at the 2022 MN State Fair
MN Grown Booth at the Minnesota State Fair
Minnesota State Fair 2022
State Fair 2016
Summer Tours 2024 - FFA, SFA
U of M Graduating Vets Visited Us
MN Commissioner of Agriculture Thom Petersen