My Minnesota

Warm and humid summer-like weather continues through Labor Day weekend. Five months from now I will probably be thinking wistfully about it,...

Hints of gold are arriving amongst the greens of roadside grasses. Splashes and tints of tan can be seen in the verdant treetops. We're ...

It’s the end of March; the beginning of Spring. The back yard and the driveway are covered in an inch or so of fresh snow. More storms, with...

We hope you had a warm Valentine’s Day full of hugs, kisses and loves. Ours did and added too much candy to be good for us since we were jus...

I’d be outside doing some yard work if not for a fresh hatch of deer flies that set upon the dogs and I a little earlier. I decided that tod...

Early this morning we enjoyed some mild thunder and lightning as thundershowers rolled through. Later, we watched a wild tom turkey displayi...

More signs of spring, better than spring blizzards, are appearing in the lull between storms. The Sunrise River pools were hosting several b...

Yesterday and today, the dogs and I walked up to the pond North of the house. It’s a longer walk than we usually take at this time of year b...

In our family, at these times, grandfather and grandmother go over the river and through the woods to enjoy Thanksgiving at the  house of Da...

For the past eighteen hours or so, there were storms to the east of us; storms to the west of us; storms to the north of us; and storms to t...

Canada is once again smoke-bombing the Midwest. We’re under an air quality alert until noon tomorrow. I’m once again deferring burning falle...

Earlier today we saw a small flock of turkeys on the rise behind the house. The exciting news is that there was a bunch of poults scurrying ...

For all the times we’ve seen wild turkeys around the place, and the few times we’ve heard toms gobbling, this morning is the first time I ca...

 If the weather around here follows a typical “spring” pattern, one day next month we’ll awaken to a day in the 90’s and thereafter it will ...

 Today is opening day of Minnesota’s wild turkey season No, not the turkeys in the state capitol, their season begins back in January or Feb...

On our first full day of Spring, the midday snow showers were mercifully brief and light. Melting commenced by midafternoon. I’m hoping by t...

This was a heartening and fun morning following a beautiful sunset yesterday. First, we saw the sun rise, a rare occurrence these days. Seco...

Baking a loaf of kernza sourdough artisan bread on another gray, cloudy January day helps, but not as much as a month’s worth of sunshine an...