My Minnesota

 Long, long, ago, in a country far, far, away, I seem to recall lending my young daughter my copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals ....

The world is full of good, or at least better, news, but we won't find it in main stream media's "if it bleeds, it leads" ...

 Leaf buds are burst. Leaf out has begun. The creeping Charlie in front of the house  has pretty little blue flowers. The lily of the valley...

Our high temperature today was in the low 50s. That’s what’s forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday, then November actually arrives. Normal highs...

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...

 From today’s US edition of The Guardian: Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures ‘Everybody has a bre...

The sound of water dripping down the downspout brightened a gray day today and helped take the edge off this morning's slickery roads. T...

In our neighborhood, today marks the start of a January thaw. The temperature has climbed above 32℉. It did that yesterday in The Cities (Mi...

This morning’s wind chill was below zero (-3℉), actual temperatures about 12℉. Since none of today’s errands are critical, they’re getting d...

The orange pumpkins are gone from the “back yard," presumably consumed by deer. Smaller ponds are once again ice covered, maybe this ti...

In recognition of the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, please follow this link to read our prior postings on that trage...

Today's posting will be short and sort'a sweet and sort'a not so. I’m wishing there was a more positive way to look at a couple ...

Tomorrow’s high temperature is forecast to be 20℉ cooler than today’s. That isn’t what I consider a reasonable autumnal transition. Of the f...

 Today I’m going to let you draw your own conclusions and hope, unrealistically, for the best. Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for ...

Tonight’s frost advisories end one county north of us. Yesterday, I turned the furnace on for the first time this season. The outside temper...

In a country with only two major political parties, we have little, if any, bench strength in our political leadership. Why is that? Does an...

The other day, the Better Half observed that roadside asters had come into bloom. What she was referring to were shorter, with smaller flowe...