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Oh Ja

If you feel you should say something, or don’t know what to say, just say this.

Team Pickle

Team Pickle

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Oh JaFebruary 7, 2023

The truth is out there about the jar of pickles on the side of the road near Des Peres, Missouri.

Poopers & Wiener Planters

Poopers & Wiener Planters

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Oh Ja, StearnsJanuary 27, 2023

Residents of Fishers, Indiana resorted to signs to divert covert lawn poopers.

Hat Hair 101

Hat Hair 101

Memories, Oh Ja, Stearns, Wobegon TrailJanuary 8, 2023

I’d forgotten about hat hair.

Living Dolls

Living Dolls

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, StearnsJanuary 4, 2023

Mannequins are freaky and sometimes disturbing. I see them everywhere and can’t help photographing them.

Well Heeled

Well Heeled

Coffee Klatsch, Oh Ja, StearnsDecember 30, 2022

Meh to the stiletto.

Dark Shadows Blue

Dark Shadows Blue

Coffee Klatsch, Memories, Oh Ja, StearnsDecember 21, 2022

Collinwood, home to the Collins family, features gothic architecture and many candles in Dark Shadows Blue.

Prairie of the Dolls

Prairie of the Dolls

Coffee Klatsch, Oh JaOctober 3, 2022

Stearns County and the whole of Minnesota are a hunting ground for vintage items and antiques.

Deer Flies & Their Ways

Deer Flies & Their Ways

Memories, Oh Ja, Wobegon TrailSeptember 26, 2022

We pay good money to watch horror movies, when all we have to do is step outside.

Night Marauder

Night Marauder

Coffee Klatsch, Cuisine, Oh Ja, StearnsSeptember 21, 2022

When my sister turned 70 she wanted to shake things up. Have adventures. So she took up dumpster diving.

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We of Wobegon

Lena and Mina were my grandmothers – Stearns County, Minnesota women who grew up and raised families in small towns around the Lake Wobegon Trail. Born in the USA, they spoke German and had German accents. As did my parents, who spoke only German until they went to school. As do some of my cousins, who have never lived anywhere but Stearns County. We’re quirky folks, like those in Garrison Keillor’s fictional Stearns town of Lake Wobegon. I’m Laurie Hilsgen, and if you’re reading this, you might be Wobegonian, too. Let’s celebrate our loony ways. Oh ja!

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