You never know what you will find during a remodeling project as Rick Scholtes learned when he found this empty can of beer in the wall when he began working in the bathroom.

For those of you who love to see photos in the Faribault County Register, this issue is for you. It is chock full of all kinds of photos, from the front page to the last.

For those of you who would rather read about the events in Faribault County, well there still are quite a few stories and columns for you to peruse. However, most of those also have plenty of photos to go with them.

One thing you won’t be reading in this week’s issue are any obituaries. There aren’t any. That is also a pretty unusual thing for the FCR.

But, back to the pictures that fill our pages this week. There are the usual photos that accompany the stories about councils, school boards and county meetings. But there are a whole lot more.

It is not every week that you have three buildings torn down in a day. Kevin Mertens and I took a few photos of that event. Probably a few hundred, that is. We were not able to be there all day long that Friday, but we were there a lot and were determined to get as many pictures of the demolition as we could. And, we succeeded in that effort.

Then I went overboard taking photos of the big St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Easton. This year the parade was not 10 minutes long but more than 30 minutes long. Since it was freezing cold with a strong bitter north wind, I had to do something to keep warm and that something was taking photos. Even with frozen fingers.

Then there was an event the Eagles put on, another Freaky Wednesday blizzard, a garage fire with lots of flame and reporters Kevin and Katie Samek took a bunch of photos at some music concerts in the schools.

Then there is our Home Improvement Section this week. I always preach that we need lots of photos to choose from, because sometimes we only have a couple of pictures to go with stories in our many special sections and that does not work.

Not this time. All three stories had lots of photos to choose from. I asked Rick Scholtes if he had any photos of his project he could share with me and he loaded a jump drive full of photos for me to choose from.

This week I spent tons of time going through all these photos of events just trying to choose which ones to save to possibly use in this week’s FCR. It was hard, because there were so many good ones. Even the garage fire produced a dozen great photos of flames shooting in the air. I saved five of them, but knew we would probably only use one.

Our photo file, on our computer server, called IMAGES_3-24-25, was so full of photos it nearly exploded. And, of course each one of those photos has to be manipulated in Photoshop. Not changed, you understand, but made to be a certain way for newspaper printing.

Then on Thursday, production day, we decide which ones we are actually going to use and have space for. And which ones will be on a color page and which ones will be in black and white.

This week that was really some difficult, tough decisions.

Just because we have so many photos this week, and so many that are not going to “make the cut,” I am adding one more to this column space. It is one that Rick Scholtes gave me from his home improvement project. When he tore open a wall to get to the plumbing for a new shower/tub in a bathroom, he found this beer can sitting on a 2×4. It was probably sitting there since the 1970s, or 50 years or more.

And yes, in case you are wondering, it was empty.