Notebook
March 30th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

If I am going to get my Yukon Golds planted by Good Friday, I am going to have to remove a huge snow pile first.  This spring has been very slow in coming and I for one am getting a little sick of the snow.  I do have a pair of 45 year old cross […]

March 22nd, 2018 by Gary Osberg

One of my underwriters in Sun Valley, Idaho told me that is raining now, but snow is on the way for this weekend.  In years past there have been years when spring was well on its way here in central Minnesota on the fourth Friday in March.  Not this year.  The forecast is for another […]

March 16th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Eve. The Irish Band,  Ring of Kerry, is performing tonight at the Fillmore Auditorium in Sartell.  Tickets are available online at www.granitecityfolk.org    I will be right here on campus at The Great Hall working the table for The Rose Ensemble   Their “Welcome The Stranger” honors the lives of the twin Saints […]

March 8th, 2018 by Gary Osberg

On June 12, 2005 Steve Jobs delivered the Commencement address at Stanford University. He told three stories from his life, “Connecting the Dots”, “Love and Loss” and “Death”. Steve was 50 years old at the time. You can go to YouTube and search by “Steve Jobs Commencement” and watch it. A year earlier Steve phoned […]

March 2nd, 2018 by Gary Osberg

“Walleye Willie” has had a good winter of fishing.  One Saturday he caught a 14” inch crappie, a 9” bluegill and a 26” walleye. William Harley Osberg will celebrate his ninth birthday tomorrow.  The big party will be poolside at a motel in Wadena.  One year we celebrated his birthday at the St. Cloud Holiday […]