There’s a three bedroom home for sale in Garrison that’s priced at about $15,000.  It’s definitely a fixer-upper, but it caught my eye as a good investment for a young couple willing to put time and effort into making it their own.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, another three bedroom home in Garrison is [...]

I cant help it:  my flowers just make me happy.
Earlier today they were covered with lots of tiny yellow butterflies.  Joy!
And while I’m on the subject, I just have to say how much joy I get from the quiet activism I see all across the state.
For example, three people from North Dakota (including North Dakota state [...]

 
I left 11 fruit trees, an herb garden, a vegetable garden and a 6-foot tall climbing rose bush when we moved to North Dakota.  I believed the climate here would be too cold to grow anything, and that the summers would be too short. 
I was wrong.  Even though I have more weeds than garden, we still grow more produce [...]

Another letter from Ken Muggli:
When folks hear the words ‘North Dakota’ they have preconcieved ideas in their heads of flat land, livestock, snow, cold–and little else.  Most folk’s mental picture of North Dakota does not include sophisticated big businesses using cutting -edge technology equal to the best in the nation. 
North Dakota is a land of [...]

A new junior high school is springing up a few miles away from where I live in Mandan, North Dakota.  It seems like it wasn’t there a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden it’s growing right up into the air.
So I had to ask myself where it was coming from.  And it appears [...]

I learned something new about Mandan, North Dakota a few weeks ago that I keep meaning to look into.
There is a hill in Mandan, facing east, with the word ‘Mandan’ spelled out on it twice: once in white-washed rock, and once in trees.  I notice it most when I’m coming west from Bismarck and it’s [...]

Fariborz Boor Boor, chief executive officer for Enova Medical Technologies, paid North Dakota a high compliment Friday during a meeting of the Centers of Excellence Commission.
The commission was hearing proposals for the next round of Centers of Excellence economic development projects.  Boor Boor was there to speak on one of the proposals, a partnership that could bring the [...]

While I was up in Garrison yesterday, I snapped some pictures.  This one is one of my favorite spots in the state.  It’s part of Garrison’s 30-acre wilderness park.  Like most of the town, the park is kept immaculate.  I could have stayed there for hours.

This one is another of my Garrison favorites:  the inside of [...]

I was up in Garrison yesterday and happened to pick up a real estate pamphlet put out by Coldwell Banker in Minot, North Dakota.  Not surprisingly, some of the newer homes were a little pricier (and bigger) than older ones.  But some of them were pretty good deals, especially as starter homes for brilliant young [...]

When we first moved to North Dakota, we were astonished to learn that our neighbor had purchased his house for around $6,000.
Granted, it was a very small house and maybe not in the best condition. He was single at the time and looked at it as an investment. I thought he was smart.
I never expected [...]