Spider

Grilled T-Bone Steak

Grilled Salmon

Sunfish Lake Park

Insect Treaties

"So I'm just saying, Box Elder Bugs and Paper Wasps can be friends. Humans don't like either of us, so we should help each other..."

Cold Harvest

Lucy

Apparently the nurse I met when I donated blood today, was a child TV star! Eventually, she went into psychiatry...

Dandelion

Compost Pit Squash

Finished Mulberry Wine

This is the wine I made June 23rd.

Reflector

Grasshopper

Stink Bug

Common Green Bottle Fly

Wild Rice Festival

The Wild Rice Festival at the Harriet Alexander Nature Center.

Rose-Hip Wine

I went through my "wine cellar" today, as I am preparing to bottle my Mulberry wine I made this summer, when I noticed that the rose-hip wine that I made when I was in Rhode Island, begin to push its cork up! This doesn't usually happen. But I made the wine in 2003 when I was living in Providence. I used rose hips that I gathered near the ocean. In November of 2003, I was preparing to come back to Minnesota and so I had to heat up the wine and try to stop the fermentation process so that I could bottle it early and bring it home. I had wondered from time to time if this wine would be any good or if I had ruined it. Obviously, I found out today, that I didn't completely kill the yeast because it had created enough pressure to slightly carbonate it, and also push the cork up.

Since this was the first Friday in a month, that an aging parent hadn't fallen or been hospitalized, this nearly 18-year-old wine, that selected today to come out, became our dinner wine--and the Edgar Winter Group, became the musical accompaniment. Both turned out to be exceptional. While I can't share the wine, you are welcome to listen to, "Autumn".

Fried Potatoes & Fried Zucchini

Grilled Pork Ribs and Sweet Potatoes

List of Rejected Car Names

Subaru Buttcrack, Mitsubishi Croissant, Ford Super Doodie, Plymouth Ruster, Chevy Taser, Infiniti IlludiumQ36, Mazda CX86 Honda Civet, Hyundai Santa Sleigh, Lincoln Accidental, Buick Beagle, Dodge Carrot Van, Jeep Grand Parakeet, Tesla Model $, Audi B4, Acura Rumor, Volkswagen Pandemic, Kia Shortage, Toyota Crapola, Lexus FU.

Grilled Pork Chops, Baked Potatoes and Fresh Beans

911

20 Years

Longest Job

COVID-19 caused me to be furloughed from my part-time job. But now I'm back doing live TV.

Religious Extremist Takeovers

Sun Drop

La Lake