HAY

Some farm boy with a very large tractor and a larger yet imagination stacked this hay. There are several along highway 75 just over in Minnesota. This one depicts a conventional cab eighteen wheeler. The hood, fenders and cab really stand out in this "hay art".

HILLSBORO

The greeting sign as you exit I-29













Nosiree ! That ain't no 4 wheeler in this home boy's truck, it's a snowmobile !

EXPRESS

This is what our first look at the Hillsboro Express employment Office looked like. Located at the Cenex station just off of I-29.

The sign on the door:

The hours of operation sign in the window:

The office manager and personnel guy is named Jim and he is a good guy with a congenial manner. He conducts the orientation and paperwork. He was even at the piling station at midnight when the sugar beet harvest kicked off. A most helpful and concientious guy that takes care of business.

INSIDE

The inside of the Stave Church Demanded our full attention and garnered our total respect.

The woodwork and fit was worthy of the finest cabinet makers in the land !

The tall ceiling and beams could absolutely capture one's focus until you would get a "crick" in your neck from looking up at such a angle.



This small door located behind the pulpit or speakers location, prompted several questions from the tour group. Some had thought that it might be a "confessional window".

However as it turns out it was so that the armed guards outside could hear the speaker also. Yep suspicions confirmed ! They were a warrior society. Arms were left outside and guarded by a armed lookout contingent.

CHURCH

This beautiful Stave Church repleca is also located at the Moorehead Minnesota Museum.

The tour is guided and the excelent interpreters give great explanations of this beautiful church.

The shingles are shaped to look like fish scales. But I thought that they looked more like armor on an ancient warrior. The Dragons on the roof peaks seemed to add to that impression. To me this seemed to be the Church of an ancient warrior society.

A wedding was taking place just after we took the tour and we got to see all of the Wedding party as they arrived. The bride wore an ancient looking gown with a corset built into the bodice.

As we stood aside for the Bride and her maids to pass by, we thought, "I wonder if maybe her great, great grandmother was married in that gown"

We had plans to view several other venues in the Fargo/Moorehead area on this day. However the displays at the first stop were so captivating that we spent all of our time there ! If you get a chance to see this, ya' just gotta' !!

Viking

On a day off we went to a museum in Moorehead Minnesota to see a Viling Ship repleca that had sailed from Duluth Minnesota to Norway.

By the time it had reached the open Atlantic Ocean it had already sailed nearly fifteen hundred miles.

The voyage to Norway took a little over thirty days. The video presentation that accompanies the guided tour is really super !

VALLEYS

Now, there are Valleys, and, there are Valleys. For example, in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, I have harvested a Deer by shooting from one side of a Valley to another. Yet, here in the Red River of the North's Valley, you can't even see from one side to the other. As the sugar beets are Harvested, the fields are disked back under to be ready for the next crops. The Tractors and disks are very large in order to cover more ground. And, there is ever so much ground to cover. He, he, in the Ouachita Mountains, we ain't got no Valleys that is wide enough to pull one of these set ups down !! Here is a look at one such Tractor and it's multi gang hydraulic lifted disks: Here is a video look at the Goliath rig: