My Minnesota

The temperature probably won’t get above zero before the day after tomorrow. Then flurries are in the forecast for Wednesday. We’re paying a...

This morning we hung a new bird house on a maple tree in front of our house. A pilot hole, drilled to facilitate inserting the screw holding...

We started the morning with the discovery that raccoons(?) had disassembled the freshly refilled hummingbird feeder. [Last night we absentmi...

Yesterday we promised to share another bear story. We confess we think this is a bear story but do not have proof of such. Last Thursday we...

I’ve noticed lots of comments (complaints) on social media about how bad the mosquitos are this year. Local, and, I think, national, news ha...

Yesterday I noticed that the empty trash and recycling cans had been tipped over. The small garden cart wasn’t where we had left it near the...

There is now open water in the Sunrise river at County Road 19, east of Stacy. The pools a couple of miles to the south are still completely...

Returning from picking  up our Community Supported Agriculture [CSA] share this morning, after dropping off the Daughter Person’s half share...

 Last night what we can only assume was a bear climbed the stairs to the deck and drained the nectar feeder of sugar water and the squirrel-...

The Better Half and I were semi-watching Sunday morning tv when the dogs went crazy with barking and dashing back and forth. There in the ba...

We've no livestock ro turn out to summer pasture, so our Beltane bonfire was subdued, but we did one. The winter Solstice greens by our ...

There was a report last weekend that a bear trashed a couple of bird feeders in a subdivision in nearby  Lindstrom. Up around Duluth reports...

It was mid-May of last year when a neighborhood bear attacked one of our bluebird houses . That house has now been reinstalled on a sturdier...

With less than a week to go until Summer solstice, it's time to take a look at what once was thought to be "normal" for that ...

Last night, for the first time this year, the bird feeders were brought into the  house. They were rehung this morning. According to my inst...

Someone, or something, tipped over the recycling barrel last night. The top was still closed tight so there was no mess to pick up. The tras...

According to the Pollinator Partnership web site, Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate pla...