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Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local. Show all posts
Thursday, September 29, 2016

After the Rain

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It hasn’t been a good year, but there have been worse ones, or so I try to remind myself. The world hasn’t been filled with much in the way...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Testing the FujiFilm HS25EXR, Part 2

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More fooling around without a clue in order to see Fuji’s camera can do. As will become obvious, there is a lot to be learned yet. More phot...
Monday, July 28, 2014

July Refuses to Go Gracefully

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Normally complaining about a month involves that eternal and universal topic of weather. Yeah, the weather has been weird with ferocious gna...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

April Hail

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This is supposed to be the season of April showers to bring forth May flowers, but what does April hail bring? We had quite a storm here l...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

A Couple of Pests

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While perusing the news, I ran across two articles about invaders. One is an invader of the blood stream and the other of trees. Both are co...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Dry in the Breadbasket

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Forget about the fluctuating temperatures this winter because there is something more problematic going on with the weather. There is a seri...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

October Already?

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Nine days into the month too? Gah, time is going by too fast. The leaves have already turned and the high winds have removed many in the ...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Hokey Smoke!

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While finishing up the Beowulf review tonight, I heard a loud impact on the air conditioner. Sometimes a panicked cat will jump up there, s...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Some Guitar Fun

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A video from a father and son duo I am friends with. It has been a trip watching Chris Jr. move from drums to guitar and then evolve as a pl...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Another Day at the Polls, Another Fiasco for the MNGOP

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Ron Paul’s libertarians have struck another blow on behalf of losing to Democrats. Yesterday, an incredibly low turnout of 3% of voters part...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Fly Like an Eagle

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Living out in the countryside has many benefits with one of the more interesting ones being the variety of wildlife that inhabit the area. ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Odds and Ends 4-10-2012

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Since I have not done this in awhile, I will throw some links up to what has caught my attention lately. Locally, the apple orchards that ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Land Rights Battle in Houston County Gets National Attention

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It was something of a surprise to get an email from a friend linking a post on Glenn Beck’s site, The Blaze and asking if this was the loca...
Friday, September 30, 2011

That Was Yesterday

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With another frost warning for tonight, it seems like summer is but a distant memory already. For me it is the second lost summer in a row w...
Monday, October 05, 2009

A Community Effort: The Yucatan Sign

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In the coming harsh economic times (we haven't seen anything yet), people will have to start pulling together to make it.  Divided ...

Bank Failures Coming Closer to Home

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Houston County, we have a problem. Yesterday, this article jumped out of the headlines, as Spring Grove is a town I spent a good chunk o...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Lanesboro Flooding

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Some pictures of flooding in Lanesboro from Doug Baker.
Monday, June 09, 2008

Flooding, Redux

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Once again our county is a disaster area, though not as bad as last August. The rains came more steadily and widespread, with already satu...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Hokah Hammered

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Going East from Houston, I could see that the Root River had escaped its banks and then some. Looking like a giant had spilled a glass of c...

A Town Spared

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With the mandatory evacuation ordered in Houston and more rain coming, it was a long night. The last thing I wanted to see was the town fl...