My Minnesota

According to our copy of the Minnesota Weather Guide , the normal high temperature this week is 82℉ and next week it’s 81℉. The ten-day fore...

Today’s weather, and the state of the country’s and world’s politics, have me waxing nostalgic for times that at least seemed simpler and mo...

The power went out for no more than two seconds in one of last night’s thunderstorms. That was just long enough to require the microwave and...

The Better Half wanted to show me a turtle she noticed in the driveway yesterday. By the time she got the dogs back into the house and her s...

Well, we now know what it’s like to be the recipient of almost 3.5 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. Just to our west, and again to our ...

The good news is I wasn’t in the midst of yard chores, or standing in a river waving a stick, when the down pour let loose. A few rumbles of...

I was distressed that the city’s ditch mower had knocked out every milkweed plant growing between our driveway and the field entrance on our...

That’s what Druids call Summer Solstice, which occurs in our neck of the woods at 3:50 pm today. The persistent rainy days we’ve been experi...

We are under the second tornado watch declared within the past week. Tornado watches induce a similar level of anxiety in me that thundersto...

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

It’s wonderful that I have a stack of books to be read because we’re forecast to get almost an inch and a half of rain tomorrow and rain dai...

We got lots of lightning and thunder and rain last night, but no hail nor tornadoes. As the storm(s) were moving east, the sunset sky took o...

Hot and humid, that’s summer weather where I come from and that’s what we’ve had yesterday and today. More thunderstorms are forecast for th...

As noted previously on these pages, we live at the easternmost edge of the well drained Anoka Sand Plain. We’re currently under a flood watc...

The roadsides have developed a rash of blue flowers that I can’t identify. I didn’t even manage to take a picture because I noticed them whi...

Things the Better Half has heard me say in the past few days: We need the moisture to recover from the drought At least it’s not snow It’ll ...

The fuel line shutoff has been turned off on the snow blower. The lawn mower’s electric start batteryis charging. I may even wash the Jeep o...

Today is the first day of the last week of March, 2024. The full moon (Ojibwe: Snow Crust Moon; Lakota: Snow Blindness Moon) occurred at 2:...