My Minnesota

The field behind the house is full of Spotted Horsemint , with scatterings of black-eyed Susans and a few compass plants. Purple Lovegrass ...

Effective tomorrow, our days will be 20 minutes shorter than they were on the Solstice and daylight will continue to shrink until we reach a...

SCOTUS recently announced that it’s legitimate for cities to fine and incarcerate homeless people who have nowhere to sleep. It appears the ...

Our phone company (Frontier) is also our dsl internet provider that never attains broadband speeds. Fortunately, we also have cell phones. W...

Yesterday the Better Half and I drove past one of the local sugarbushes. She noticed they had their sap collection tubing strung. A little f...

Short posting today. Our internet service provider, Frontier, is having some sort of network problem that is delivering about .1Mbps [yes, t...

The wind is up again. The driveway I had mostly cleared of fallen leaves, isn’t. Congress may keep funding the government a month or two at ...

There’s enough stupidity and related activity going on in the world so, today we’re going to be short and sweet and positive. As we hope you...

There’s not much new and exciting to report on today. Deer flies are becoming more numerous. We’ve responded by installing a new blue ball c...

This Sunday is Mother’s Day. It would be a wonderful time to thank Mother Earth for the gifts of clean air, clean water, food and shelter s...

a preview of coming attractions Photo by J. Harrington I hope those who celebrate these holy days are appreciating the many meanings of E...

There’s a “wet spot” at the foot of the slope in the yard behind the house. Most springs it looks something like the picture below. Notice t...

This year, and a few preceding it, remind me of the opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities . It was the best of times, it was the ...

Too many lives have been prematurely ended. Too many wars have been fought, some declared, many not. Our politics are again (still?) matters...

Today, American Rivers announced the Ten Most Endangered Rivers of 2022 . The Mississippi River, our Mississippi River, is Number 6. Here’s ...