“I was thinking about grilling,” my husband texted me. “How about beans as a side dish?” “That sounds great,” I said.

It’s that time of year when I start pulling out all my garden tools and begin looking at the garden. I do not do a lot of prep with my garden; I prefer to enjoy the process and not focus on every weed or imperfect flower that is definitely there. That said, there are a few garden preparations I always do to help keep my garden in decent shape. The first thing I do is locate my tools. Somehow, every year I seem to forget that winter is coming, and my tools don’t always end up where they should be. For example, my favorite pruners were in the shed just sitting on our patio furniture. Apparently, I set them down and forgot to go back for them.

Mrs. B came into the emergency room one night, years ago, with some stress related issue. After taking her history, I began to suspect there was something else bothering her. As I was beginning her physical exam she blurted out, “I know there is a breast mass but you’re not going to send me to any breast cancer doctor!” She had already decided to avoid standard treatment and her next comment explained why, “My aunt suffered because of awful unnecessary surgery and chemotherapy,” she said. I sensed there was no changing her mind and that meant trouble for my patient.

May is National Beef Month, and The Borderland Press checked in with a local processing facility to get the pulse on the beef market. Josh Metzger, manager at Langdon Locker, gave some information on the current state of the markets.

Greetings from your friends at PNC! I just returned from the Spring Long Term Care Conference. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to do an article justice this week.

We had a visitor from Bismarck last week. Clint Boyd, a senior paleontologist, came to deliver and hang our 4-foot scale of the Jormungandr Walhallaensis. These giant meat eating, aquatic lizards swam the Earth's seas about 80 million years ago. This new species is named Jormungandr Walhallaensis after a sea serpent in Norse mythology named Jormungandr combined with Walhalla, where the fossils were found. You can learn more about this on YouTube if you type in the name.

A year without Mom: Memories, milestones, and Minneapolis layovers I hope all the moms had a wonderful Mother’s Day - stepmoms, fur moms, grandmas, and adoptive moms included. By Rebecca Davis I spent the past week in North Carolina visiting my dad.

I’m so sorry about last week. I was on my way to Bismarck for a week of education and bonding with other administrators and nursing home staff, then it dawned on me that I had not written my newspaper article. Oops!!! The Rest Home received a plaque for 65 years of service to the community. That makes me very proud. I was born there almost 69 years ago when it was the hospital. I could go full circle in a few years!

It feels like forever since my last update! Life certainly knows how to keep us on our toes. So buckle up — there’s a lot happening in Cavalier County, and we’ve been busy at the Cavalier County Job Development Authority (JDA). Here’s a look at what we’ve been working on: