My Minnesota

Yesterday Saturday's snow melted back to bare ground. Several inches more is currently in the forecast for next weekend. Maybe the forec...

Technically, we, together with much of Minnesota, are no longer in or under drought conditions . Our cumulative year-to-date precipitation i...

The sky has been spitting graupel  off and on all day. The windchill is around 27℉. We just spent about an hour wandering around the propert...

Snow is melting. Cloudy skies have some thin spots and patches of blue even. It’s almost Easter weekend. There are enough good things happen...

Another morning, another funky mood after scanning today’s headlines. At least the snow is melting. In fact, when I put on a coat and went o...

Today marks the start of Native American Heritage Month. Minnesota’s Governor, Tim Walz, has issued an official proclamation . In a similar ...

I'm using today's posting to share some news that pleased me when I first learned about it and then caused me to wonder why I hadn...

Some years ago I wrote a poem that a friend of ours, Krista Detor, was subsequently kind enough to include in her book, Flat Earth Diary Not...

 Today’s posting speaks for itself in gratitude and apology. History of Navajo Code Talkers Day Navajo Code Talkers and the Unbreakable Code...

The elderberry bush growing in the “wet spot”in the back yard is coming into flower. More orange day lilies, plus one scarlet one, have star...