My Minnesota

Last week we saw a very rare occurrence for Minnesota in mid-February: not one but two separate and distinct motorcycles were on the road la...

The universe is estimated to be almost 15 billion years old; the Earth about 4.5 billion; humans (Homo sapiens) less than a million . I nee...

Yesterday’s sourdough bread turned out better than just edible. It went nicely with the french onion soup we reheated for dinner. I’ve notic...

As it becomes more and more obvious that our political systems aren’t adequate to help US respond to the crises we face, I keep thinking abo...

These days, many in the environmental movement point out “There is no Planet B!” I prefer to look at it from the perspective that the Earth ...

I suspect that our compost tumbler isn’t creating sufficient heat, despite getting sunlight from late morning through the afternoon. The two...

Today, at 6:56 pm local time, we will experience peak full moon for September. Some of us have no expectation of seeing it tonight, too much...

We enjoyed a dusting of snow recently. A gentle reminder, this time, that we're on or in a shoulder season, twixt late Winter and early ...

As noted elsewhere, we are a recovering planner who spent most of a career focused on envisioning and facilitating the creation of various f...

The 2019 Minnesota legislative session, and the special session needed because the #mnleg couldn't finish its work within the constituti...

Over the weekend we bought, inter alia , some niger thistle seed. Yesterday we filled the thistle feeder. Today we have a multitude of olive...

This morning we downloaded the Mining Association of Canada's 2017 Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Progress Report . As we were browsin...

This morning we enjoyed watching a bald eagle sail across a bright blue sky. A sign of Spring? Perhaps, but it brought to mind the realizati...