Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Got allergies? Don't blame the goldenrod!

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It's mid-September and the goldenrod is now in full bloom -- right about the same time that the pollen count hits the roof.  Over and ...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Minnesota Zen: Melt Snow, Carry Water!

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If you have been watching the weather on the news lately (and who hasn't?) you know that the upper Midwest has been going in and out of...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Robins are back - I hope they survive this late winter storm

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Three days ago I was listening to robins singing in my yard, watching a flock of juncos passing through on their way to Canada, and hearing ...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

A Small Miracle: The Extra Lulav and Esrog

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On the Festival of Sukkot (Feast of Booths), Jews not only put up the Sukkah (booth) to eat our meals in (about which I have written befor...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Harvesting Wild Plums (Prunus americana)

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One good thing about the unusually warm spring we had this year: we got a great crop of wild plums.  This far north, the plum crop is rather...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

2012 heat wave: Spring has never been so early here!

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Lately the news has been full of photos of cherry blossoms and daffodils blooming a month early in places like Washington, DC.  Here in Pine...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wild Turkeys -- hard freeze tonight -- picking green tomatoes

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This has to be the most cruelty-free wild turkey feather ever -- it was dropped on our dirt road by a passing flock of turkeys about a week ...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Birds flocking, crickets chirping -- Rosh Hashanah is coming soon!

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 I woke up very early this morning and went outside for a dawn walk, to be met with the squawking of a huge flock of birds waking up in a di...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Thousands of USA heat records broken -- new widget tracks them all

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The weather has finally cooled down here in Minnesota -- at least for now.  Over 4000 heat records have been broken so far this summer in th...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Spring is here, cleaning for Passover, birds are back!

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I haven't had much time to write on my blog lately -- between making maple syrup, cleaning out the chicken coop, and cleaning the house ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

March storm is roaring like a lion!

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A few days ago, it was in the mid-50s with my chickens out foraging in patches of bare ground.  There were even bits of green grass poking u...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

If a tree falls, you can definitely hear it!

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Yesterday, as I was sitting at my computer, I heard a loud falling, sliding, crunching sound and assumed it was ice sliding off the roof (...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Living within the seasons

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One of the things I quickly learned after moving to the country was how to plan ahead for Jewish holidays, because way out here, there just ...
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