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...

Yesterday was a Red Flag day and not just because it was Mother's Day! Low humidity, winds gusting into the low thirties mph, plus no p...

It’s neither silent nor night, but all is calm and all is bright, at least for the moment. The sun is actually shining in a blue sky. Christ...

The winds last night brought down more dead branches but that seems to be the limit of our local damage. We were lucky, more so than many in...

Local waters that were open over the weekend are now covered (again) with ice, which is covered with snow. We haven’t checked larger waters ...

Thanks to the Better Half’s [BH] leading the way, today we dumped half a coffee can’s worth of change into the coin counter at our credit un...

I remember reading somewhere or other, a while back, something to the effect that humans evolved to better deal with a near-term, immediate,...

Today, in the Northern hemisphere, the sun will reach its most northerly point at 4:23 this afternoon, our local time. If we stop to think a...

In my younger days, decades ago, I sometimes drove to Idaho in the Summer. At the time I had in-laws who Summered in Rexburg, ID. It took so...

The current weather has been like mid-to-late-March or thereabouts for the past few days. We drove home last night, Christmas night in Minne...

Today is Smokey the Bear's 75th birthday. One of our favorite poets, 50 long years ago, said what is even more important today and tomor...

We spent the morning with the Daughter Person at a Marine Mills Folk School class on sourdough baking. The fact that we are in the midst of ...

For reasons I doubt I'll ever begin to comprehend, my desktop iMac ate its iTunes library and then proceeded to delete all the missing s...

As far back as we can remember, we've tended toward being a perfectionist. (We suspect the Better Half might claim we've succeeded i...

So far today we've noticed three things that seem unusual, although it may just be that what we've seen is normal and we simply have...