My Minnesota

Yes, thank you, I have almost recovered from the Spring cold I started coming down with last weekend. Also, once again, the snow cover has f...

Welcome to Sun Day ! There's an (in)famous quote about news: "If it bleeds, it leads." Doom-scrolling social media, reading th...

Yesterday was a Red Flag day and not just because it was Mother's Day! Low humidity, winds gusting into the low thirties mph, plus no p...

Wishing a happy day to all the Mothers out there and those who made them such. On the way home from a visit with our son, the Jeep was repor...

There’s lots of open water showing on local lakes and ponds. The Minnesota legislature is considering a bill to reimburse counties for “ice ...

Last night, somebody (deer? raccoons? both?) was playing with the pumpkins we left in the field behind the house. They’ve been moved quite a...

I did succeed in making yesterday a #TweetlessTuesday. It actually felt good. Except for the agitation surrounding additional indictments of...

We finally got lots of rain last night. The telltale puddle in the driveway was close to full this morning. Yesterday brought several severe...

Do you see a troublesome pattern here? Texas governor defies federal order to remove anti-migrant buoys from river  Lawsuit says US environm...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau Well, thanks to the Daughter ...

In addition to our spring plantings being stressed by the drought this summer, the Better Half and I planted something that seems to have at...

The weather continues a cloudy, dreary pattern. Tree branches are about as bare of leaves as they are come February. The dogs, and at least ...

Today I got an unexpected surprise. [Of course, if I had expected it, it wouldn’t have been a surprise, would it?] Most of the smaller ponds...