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Vicki with her angora rabbit, Peaches

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Vicki Biggs-Anderson
Vicki lives with her husband, Paul, on a nearly 100-year-old homestead in Colvill. She shares this special place with six goats, one guard llama, about two dozen laying hens, a few difficult geese and ducks, seven angora rabbits, a house cat and one yellow Lab. Besides feeding and changing "sheets" for all of the above, Vicki is mining her ten-plus years of columns for the old News-Herald for a book/situation comedy. Listen at your convenience by subscribing to a podcast.

 

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Vicki's cashmere cuties, Daisy and Dolly

Magnetic North: Ruminating on ruminates

Welcome back to Magnetic North, where winter’s grip is loosening, day by day, drip by drip, and we who count the hours of daylight wax poetic…over just about anything.

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Northern lights photo courtesy of the NOAA Photo Library

Magnetic North: Dirt and auroras - all in one week

Welcome back to Magnetic North, where some old friends not seen for waaaay too long appeared this week.

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Vicki's cashmere kids

Magnetic North Feb. 18: Tween time up north

Welcome back to Magnetic North. It’s the “tween” season, a funky time in the north country. A time to test one’s mettle.

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Bosco hard at work, eating!

Magnetic North: F is for February, fleece and fun!

Welcome back to Magnetic North on Feb.

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It's all about chickens at Magnetic North, as Vicki picks her flock

Magnetic North Feb. 3: Math and chickens just don’t mix

Welcome back to Magnetic North, where dreams of green grass and balmy breezes come to life on the pages of catalogs.

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End of day Blue

Mysteries can’t be Googled

Welcome back to Magnetic North on Jan. 21, where winter nights are filled with stars and song and mystery.

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Many a critter in Vicki's barn!

Nothing nosy about counting noses

Welcome back to Magnetic North  on this fine Jan. 7, where counting noses and beaks every day and every decade is the start and end to my days. Six, one, seven, two, five and 13. Good.

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Crunchy snow covers everything at Magnetic North

Magnetic North Dec. 31, 2009: Snow and Ice

Welcome back to Magnetic North, where the first decade of the millennium is slip-sliding away on a solid sheet of ice.

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Wood burning magic

Magnetic North Dec. 23, 2009: Wood burning magic

Welcome back to Magnetic North, a whiter and brighter and softer walking place since our recent snowfall. My kick sled is fired up and ready to go. No more clunky trudges to the mailbox.

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Vicki longs for a healthy blanket of snow….hauling water to the barn gets easier when she can put her kick sled to use!

Magnetic North Dec.17, 2009: My winter drinking problem :)

Welcome back to Magnetic North, where we stagger toward Christmas week over frozen clods of mud and, alas, no measurable snow.

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