Is Spring ever going to come?
We got 18 inches of blowing and drifting snow just recently, and winds up to 40 mph! And that was on top of the foot or so of snow that hadn't melted. On the...
Another gray, gloomy, snowy day
We're wondering what happened to the sun. Honestly, Minnesota is usually bright and sunny, even in the winter. Lately, not so much. Today is warmer, in the low thirties, but it's very dark and...
Spring is so nice!
But yesterday, while I was cleaning on the back porch, I turned and saw bloody paw prints in the doorway...and across the dining room...and right up to Spencer! Real bloody! I picked up his...
We’re making good use of this very nice spring weather
Our season is very short here in northern Minnesota, so we're hard at work trying to get everything — especially the long-season crops — planted in the gardens. Yep, it's hard work and we're...
As usual, our beavers were right
We had a very hot, dry summer. Around here, some swamps are dry and even rivers are showing more rocks than water. Yep, we got rain. But only about 1/10 of an inch or...