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Filled With Joy

On April 12, 2026 By StefanieIn Chickens, Food, Gardening, Holidays, ICE, joy, SeasonsLeave a comment

It’s been a busy few weeks, and since spring has finally arrived, it is only going to get busier and busier as the garden takes over my life. There has been so much joy happening lately. No Kings was amazing. I didn’t go to the huge rally at the capitol, but to the one in …

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Real Spring?

On March 22, 2026 By StefanieIn Books, Gardening, ICE, Politics, Seasons14 Comments

Caution: Wordiness ahead. Minneapolis hit a record breaking 78F/ 26C Saturday. Our first 70F/ 21C day of the year generally happens around April 7th. Over the last two years, the first 70-degree reading has come early—March 14 last year and March 3 in 2024. The 2024 date of March 3 was the earliest recorded 70-degree …

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The End of Fake Spring Part Two

On March 15, 2026 By StefanieIn Books, Food, Gardening, ICE, Politics, Seasons14 Comments

It was 60F /15.5 C a week ago and close to that on the day after! I even dried laundry out on the clothesline. Then fake spring the second came to a screeching halt last Tuesday night while James and I were out on neighborhood patrol. The wind was already gusting and then it started …

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Fake Spring

On February 22, 2026 By StefanieIn Gardening, ICE, joy, Seasons20 Comments

Fake Spring came to Minnesota last week. Fake spring usually happens a couple times in late winter before real spring arrives. Temperatures soared to 50F / 10C and a few degrees above. Now that might not sound warm to you, but for us, that meant going out on neighborhood foot patrol in sneakers and a …

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Occupied

On February 4, 2026 By StefanieIn Culture, Gardening, Holidays, ICE, joy, Politics16 Comments

So much happening here and it changes from hour to hour and day to day. Minneapolis and Minnesota are all over the headlines and opening my email to the journalists’ newsletters I subscribe to or perusing the reporting of pretty much any news site is disconcerting. I'm reading echoes. Foreign news agencies have sent their …

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