I have taken to traveling the back way out of my neighborhood down 10th Street West in West Fargo now that I am taking the interstate to work each day. If you have ever traveled down that road you know that it is one of the worst roads in West Fargo. It has protruding manholes and [...]
Tag: West Fargo
A caterpillar spotting…
I have to once again give props (a.k.a. my proper respect) to the folks who live at the house on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sheyenne Street in West Fargo. The last time I wrote about them it was in regard to their joyous snowman. Today as I was driving home I noted a [...]
Left up to individual interpretation…
At a house on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sheyenne Street in West Fargo there is a large snowman whose face looks upward and whose branch arms extend toward the sky in the front yard. The snowman is on the daily route to Cheyenne's school. We have been seeing him there for a number [...]
A first person account of animal cruelty…
Today, I woke up to a dog barking outside. The time was just a few minutes shy of 4:30 AM. Mike was already on the phone with the West Fargo Police Department when I got up. Mike called the police because the neighbor behind us (who lives on Sheyenne Court in West Fargo) had put out his [...]
Odds and ends…1000 words or less.
The clean slate of the new year has already faded. As I was traveling home from dropping Cheyenne off from school a hundred odds and ends that have skittered to the outside of my life or my consciousness flooded my brain - and then the turkeys crossed Sheyenne Street. The good news is, they ran. They ran [...]
Who is the turkey?
My Aunt Rosie used to always say, "Don't let the turkeys get you down!" By turkeys she meant the dumb people who crossed my path or who impeded my progress. I guess a turkey league somewhere cried foul (or is that fowl?) to such defamation, but the message stuck with me - dumb = turkey, turkey=dumb. [...]
Dumb as a box of rocks or daredevils?
In the past week I have twice seen a large group of wild turkeys meandering around residential neighboorhoods in West Fargo. Not being a North Dakota native and having very limited experience with wild turkeys, I cannot evaluate fairly whether this public meandering just weeks before Thanksgiving indicates that they are dumb as a box [...]
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