My Minnesota

Today is the last day of this Minnesota legislative session. The evening weather forecast for today is full of thunderstorms. Some of us don...

As I measured water and flour to refresh my sourdough starter this morning, I realized that an adjustment of perspective was in order. I was...

Yesterday’s full moon, which was completely cloud covered around here, is called the Strawberry Moon by the Ojibwe and the Good Berries Moon...

It rained (again) this morning. Thunderstorms are in tomorrow afternoon’s forecast. Lots of hay fields around here have their first cutting ...

Things the Better Half has heard me say in the past few days: We need the moisture to recover from the drought At least it’s not snow It’ll ...

This may be (one of) the nicest February days ever in the North Country. Blue skies, sunshine, temperatures in the mid-40’s, little breeze a...

The bread I baked this morning is about the best tasting I’ve produced in a decade or so. Unfortunately, it wasn’t on purpose. I’m still cha...

If “learning experience” is what lies between failure and success, that’s what we’ve had with our first boule of sourdough rye bread. It’s s...

In a couple of hours, the dough that’s proofing in the refrigerator will be transferred to a cloche and put in the oven to bake. Fresh artis...

A week or ten days or so ago, I scattered the dregs of a bag of whole sunflower seeds on the slope behind the house. I had tried filling a b...

We’ve lived in our house at the eastern edge of Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area for a generation (25 years +/-). During our occupancy,...

Today I find myself pondering how it is that we’ve gone from trying to repress civil rights marches and sit-ins to honoring the Reverend Doc...

Driving a local back road late this morning, we saw something unusual, at least something we’ve neither seen before nor read about. There we...

Yesterday’s sourdough bread turned out better than just edible. It went nicely with the french onion soup we reheated for dinner. I’ve notic...

A cloudy, dreary day offers a wonderful opportunity to distract myself from gloom and doom by messing with the resurrected sourdough starter...

Tomorrow we pick up the last share for the year of the Community Supported Agriculture [CSA] we participate in. Our final week's box con...

Locally, we’re close to peak color . We’ll probably attain it next week. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll put away the summer toys like t...