My Minnesota

We've entered what is typically the coldest period of the year here in the North Country. I'm hoping Mother Nature and the Fates wil...

Another day with some episodes of freezing drizzle and rain. Side roads are sloppy and slippery. If AI is the upcoming thing, why aren't...

We got five or six inches of snow late Friday and early Saturday. The birds have been pouring in to the feeders: goldfinches, juncoes, woodp...

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...

I’m already starting to envision waterfowl, red-winged blackbirds, and sandhill cranes beginning to get restless and warming up for their re...

If “learning experience” is what lies between failure and success, that’s what we’ve had with our first boule of sourdough rye bread. It’s s...

While running errands this morning, we saw a sun dog. That means it was very cold and the sun was shining. Sun dogs need cold. Our dogs say ...

The Christmas decorations will start to come down after this weekend, The Feast of the Epiphany is Sunday, January 7. I intend to respond to...

Years ago, when I started homemade bread baking, I read that some folks named their sourdough starter and treated it like a pet that had to ...

Sometime yesterday, or early today, the township mowed the shoulders of roads in our neck of the woods. It appears such efforts are consiste...

Baking a loaf of kernza sourdough artisan bread on another gray, cloudy January day helps, but not as much as a month’s worth of sunshine an...

Last night while we slept, the plants in our bulb garden we busy. This morning we enjoyed the first bloom, a jonquil-daffodil-narcissus. Aft...

Trees, once covered in snow, are down to a thin coating on their branches. Will that be gone next week? Perhaps. It’s going to be interestin...

This morning the trees were snow covered, while the bushes were coated in frost or rime ice. Every once in awhile, a burst of dropping snow ...

Tomorrow, very slowly, the days will begin to grow longer, at least for the first half of the year. Temperatures will begin to increase on a...

I think this year the Christmas amaryllis will come into bloom for next year’s Valentine’s Day, or thereabouts. I believe we missed the timi...

We already got a dusting of snow last month, but it soon melted. It’s now supposed to snow, off and on, for the next several days. The tempe...

A short burst of thunder early on this cloudy, cool, rainy morning prompted me to react that “It’s too early for waterfowl opener.” Can you ...