My Minnesota

The snow cover is leaving, again. This time perhaps until the start oof next winter. We’ll see. It’s about time, since sandhill cranes shoul...

Great clouds of leaves have floated away from their homes of origin. They now clutter the ground and complicate the last grass cutting of th...

A pair of hanging baskets with pansies, or something like, have been added to the front stoop. Their hanging height, and the ease with which...

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...

Last night someone must have left open the door between northern Minnesota and Canada. Today is about half the temperature yesterday was and...

Winter solstice is a week from tomorrow. Christmas follows a few days later. Are you beginning to feel a sense of relief that, no matter wha...

Thanks to temperatures in the mid-40’s, much of the snow has melted. Tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer. No complaints here, although th...

Some Novembers deer come at night and eat the driveway pumpkins and the Jack O’Lantern faces. Other years I dump the pumpkins under the pear...

Last night and this morning we got flurried on to the tune of a couple of inches of sticky, wet, snow. Unless we get lots of melting this af...

There’s not much new and exciting to report on today. Deer flies are becoming more numerous. We’ve responded by installing a new blue ball c...

The mower deck is back on the tractor. Once again I’ve demonstrated that “Easy On, Easy Off” is a marketing phrase that doesn’t meet truth i...

Some minutes ago, today’s raindrops turned into snowflakes. They are among the last of the season, since Monday is Spring Equinox, but proba...

 Halloween is one week from today. We discovered how we might be able to watch some holiday season classics beginning with It’s the Great Pu...

 Our local goats beard  plants have gone to seed. The seed heads look like oversized dandelion plumes. Another sign that summer is on the cu...

This week we still have a chance of snow showers on Thursday. That tells me we’re in a transition from third winter to mud season. Mid-week ...

Moonset was beautiful this morning, very cold, but beautiful. It looked a lot like the photo below, which was taken in December several year...

We’re finishing the first full week of a new year. That’s about 2% of the year gone. Today we had 8 hours and 59 minutes of daylight but zer...