My Minnesota

Depending on whether you count from Memorial Day or Summer Solstice, Summer's arrival is a little late or a little early. In either case...

In several ways, this has been literally a shitty week My dog SiSi has had diarrhea for the past few days and, since we’re getting the septi...

Twice this past week I’ve seen a flock of four or five sandhill cranes standing on a road. A few days ago they were on our paved road, with ...

First things first. Along the back roads to pick up this week's community supported agriculture [CSA] share, we saw a handful of deer, i...

It’s time for the weekly report on our community supported agriculture [CSA] share. Here’s what was in our box this morning: Broccoli Raab S...

No matter how inane our politics get, it's hard to be grumpy when faced with an abundance of wildflowers along roads and in summer field...

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...

Yesterday’s full moon, which was completely cloud covered around here, is called the Strawberry Moon by the Ojibwe and the Good Berries Moon...

On the way to pick up our box of community supported agriculture [CSA] shares this morning, there were several whitetail deer browsing along...

According to the meteorologists, today is the first day of summer. According to me, it’s a beautiful late spring, early summer day. I’m toyi...

Bird feeders are back up. Birds are temporarily boycotting because we had the feeders down for a couple of days to discourage the peregrine ...

Early this morning we enjoyed some mild thunder and lightning as thundershowers rolled through. Later, we watched a wild tom turkey displayi...

For quite some years, we’ve been purchasing shares in a community supported agriculture farm. Rarely have we shopped at a farmer’s market; s...

Before we get into today’s themes, let me be among those greeting you with the salutation: May the Fourth Be with You! Happy Star Wars Day! ...

Once upon a time, I believed that big government was the the way to control big business, i.e., mega corporations. Then came regulatory capt...

Have you visited your local independent bookstore today? We have, to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day . The Better Half picked up a ...

It seems as though, once upon a time or so, I read that, if a society wants less of something, they should tax it. If there’s any truth to s...