My Minnesota

Leaf color is increasing in patches and splotches. (I should spend more time just sitting and watching the leaves change color.) Conifer nee...

April is the month of poetry of snow melt of snow fall of the return of ducks, geese, swans, and of herons and cranes, and of red-win...

Another day with some episodes of freezing drizzle and rain. Side roads are sloppy and slippery. If AI is the upcoming thing, why aren't...

Tonight is the longest night of the year. Soon the days will begin to lengthen as the sun returns to our northern skies, followed, many week...

Yesterday the Better Half [BH] and I selected and cut down a youngish pine along the driveway for this year's home-grown Christmas tree....

Today it's time to say good-bye to November, since tomorrow we welcome the arrival of December. Signs of Thanksgiving past arrive later ...

It's Thanksgiving week. Around here we are starting the week with well above average temperatures and look like we're going to have ...

It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...

Much of this morning’s snow has melted. (I hope my screams didn’t disturb anyone.) Repeat after me: We need the moisture! Yesterday’s bag of...

We got a bunch of water in celebration of today. Unfortunately, it came as flakes, not drops, and we were the recipients of more than twice ...

In celebration of Spring’s official arrival, I baked scones this morning and finished off much of what remained of the St. Patrick’s Day Iri...

I hope everyone, or at least the good folks, had a Happy St. Patrick’s Day and enjoys the first day of Spring tomorrow (local time) or Wedne...

After last night’s snow fall of four to five inches, the neighborhood looks more typical for February in the North Country. Most of the wint...

Short posting today. Our internet service provider, Frontier, is having some sort of network problem that is delivering about .1Mbps [yes, t...

Hello, again(?), from the cloud-covered, snow-showered, North Country. You’ve no doubt seen the news that last year was the hottest on recor...

We’re closing out the month and the year with another cloudy, frosty day. Today is the second last day of 2023. New Year’s Eve arrives tomor...

Almost a decade ago we re-sided and re-shinglled the house. We also had some bracing added to the roof, to be sure it would hold a "min...