My Minnesota

I voted on Friday, October 16; participated in the local No Kings - Vote Early rally on Saturday; and today reached the limit of letting MAG...

Yesterday the Better Half [BH] and I selected and cut down a youngish pine along the driveway for this year's home-grown Christmas tree....

Thanks to an invitation from the Son-In-Law and Granddaughter, I went fishing yesterday. My (not quite 4 year old) Granddaughter outfished m...

One of the folx down the road is a tRUMP supporter. In fact, there’s many of them in the county in which we live. The one I’m writing about ...

Snow is melting. Cloudy skies have some thin spots and patches of blue even. It’s almost Easter weekend. There are enough good things happen...

I’ve checked two different, authoritative, sources, The Bible, and A People’s History of the United States , and each concurs quite a bit w...

It’s snowing still. Again! It’s snowing again. Still! At least that  situation is tempered by the observation that  a second jonquil has ope...

I’m sitting in an easy chair looking out the window and wondering if it’s good or bad news that the chronically cloudy days are getting long...

 The first post on the first day of a new year--no pressure, right? Well, not much since this will be our 3,691 daily posting, but who’s cou...

We’re making progress toward Christmas and the December birthdays of two adult children. The Better Half has been doing interior decorations...

Have you ever heard the Will Rogers quotation: “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”  I no longer find it amusing. As of the en...

Too many lives have been prematurely ended. Too many wars have been fought, some declared, many not. Our politics are again (still?) matters...

Happy New Year!. Over the next week we’ll gain slightly more than a minute per day of daylight. By month’s end, we’ll have gained almost an ...

Today’s title is a phrase that I’ve concluded is misused or overused or both. Take a look at SiSi and Harry in the picture. They look like t...

Thanks to the Better Half’s [BH] leading the way, today we dumped half a coffee can’s worth of change into the coin counter at our credit un...

This morning I got slapped up alongside my head, but in a good way. The credit union that issues one of my credit cards ran into an issue, o...

 Once again this week the daily weather is cloudy and rainy. Next week promises more of the same. The standard reaction this would trigger f...