My Minnesota

Are you familiar with Joni Mitchell's wonderful song,  The Circle Game ? It's one of my all time favorites. Despite my grumbles, I r...

The planters by the front porch have been freshly planted by the Better Half. I helped hang hanging baskets of fuchsia on which I will bump ...

Last night, for the first time in months, we had chili for dinner. It helped ease the dank and dreary weather we’ve been having and the even...

The local leaves are just about at peak color, sliding past peak any day now as the colors drift down with the leaves. It sure is pretty aro...

It looks like the weather may have finally turned the corner from Summer to Autumn, more than a month after the start of meteorological autu...

Despite summer-like temperatures and humidity, Canada geese and sandhill cranes are beginning to flock up. Daylight is shortening. Bowhuntin...

I finally managed to get some mowing done in the back yard. The tractor was moving slowly enough that a frog had no trouble jumping out of t...

If the weather were like today’s year ‘round, I might be willing to give up four seasons. That’s how nice today is after yesterday’s downpo...

The power went out for no more than two seconds in one of last night’s thunderstorms. That was just long enough to require the microwave and...

On this penultimate day of July 2024, the weather forecast is changing by the moment. Thunderstorms come and go in the hourly forecast witho...

I’m happy to announce that the fields behind the house are home to a handful of black-eyed Susans, plus an abundance of spotted horsemint a...

Lazy, hazy, sleepy, days of summer are here. If anyone stumbles over my ambition, please feed and water it until cooler temps arrive. Then l...

Today had been forecast to be cooler and wetter, so we made up some sourdough to bake. Today has turned out to be partly cloudy and quite wa...

It’s finally stopped raining long enough for me to do a second grass cutting of the season in the back yard. I was also going to mow our dit...

Today I think I discovered we have some yellow butterfly weed growing on the rise behind the house. As far as I know, all the butterfly wee...

It’s wonderful that I have a stack of books to be read because we’re forecast to get almost an inch and a half of rain tomorrow and rain dai...

I spent much of the morning mowing overly tall, excessively thick, grass in the back yard. It’s not been tended to for weeks, thanks to our ...

Forsythia blooms are gone. Lilacs are well past peak flowering. Purple vetch blooms are filling local fields. Butterfly weed, and black- and...