Tonight the youngest and I had the night to ourselves so we went out to eat. We hit this local bar and grill, that’s really a bit of a dive place, but it’s clean and the food is decent. It’s the kind of place with a pull tab booth in the corner, and tonight happened […]
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This past weekend, while camping, I got a chance to do a photowalk at Jay Cooke State Park before we headed home. This is an amazingly beautiful park south of Duluth, MN, with the beautiful St. Louis River flowing through it. The park is a favorite of kayakers, though I’m not sure which portion they’re […]
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This past weekend I did a bit of biking and combined it with needing to actually get somewhere. First, I hit up a bike rally at Insight Brewing with some friends, and from there I headed over to Maplewood to visit my brother-in-law and his fiance at their new house that they bought. I love […]
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The second state park that we hit on our trip this past weekend was Split Rock Creek. This is a small park in SW Minnesota, that often causes confusion for those of us in the cities, as we’re all very familiar with Split Rock State Park in northern Minnesota, home of the famous lighthouse. Split […]
Read moreOne of the other parks that I got to hit on my visit to Grand Marais was Judge CR Magney State Park. Unlike at Grand Portage, my hike was much shorter and much more worth it. There are two falls at Magney that are worth walking to. It’s about a 1 mile hike to the […]
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This past weekend the wife and I got a chance to hear a talk at the North House Folk School about climate change. The speakers were Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner of Minnesota Public Radio, Dr. Jay Austin of the Large Lakes Observatory and Dr. Lee Froelich of the U of MN Center for Forest Ecology. […]
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As all readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan of beer. I’ve been drinking craft beer since the only game in town was Old Chicago and their Beer Tour. However, for many decades the only real craft producers in Minnesota were Surly, Schell’s, and Summit. There were a few small brewpubs around, but […]
Read moreYesterday I blogged about our loss of privacy protections at the Federal level. Today I opened up my browser to discover that our Minnesota legislature has already stepped in to protect our citizens. Yesterday our legislators added an amendment to some economic development bills to once again keep our protections in place to keep our […]
Read moreThe last couple of days have been tremendously windy here in the Twin Cities. We’ve seen gusts up to 45-50 mph at times and everything is blowing around. It’s been a loud enough wind that it’s actually awoken me in the middle of the night on multiple occasions. Not from any debris hitting the house, […]
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This winter started out so great. It was warm all the way through November, and then we descended into a harsh cooldown in December. We managed a nice big snowstorm that ensured we had a beautiful white Christmas. Then everything went to crap. We’ve had TWO different weekends of rain. Because it’s winter that meant […]
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Listened to the debate and vote today about Sunday Sales while I worked. Once again Minnesota is stuck looking like a State full of fools. This is especially true when you combine this discussion with the idiocy that is the soccer stadium debate (THEY’RE PAYING FOR THE WHOLE THING YOU IDIOTS!). It’s one of those […]
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Second Runnings 