Stirrings from the empty nest

It's birthday #55. I headed outside shortly after sun-up to thin out the radishes and the next thing I know, I was hand trimming (with s...

Yet another video of me doing something I used to do when I was younger. I'm sensing a theme here.

I'm back in Minnesota but wanted to share a tip from my gardening mother. She has dandelions daffodils and narcissus sprouting up in r...

Where I grew up, my grandmother -- and then my mother -- owned several acres of field abutting a forest owned by, well, we don't really ...

Near 80 degrees in April. A good time to sit outside in New England without fear of a mosquito attack. Here's my sister, Cheryl; my b...

My sister, Cheryl, just showed me this picture she took up in Maine:

For people who don't know New England milltowns of the 1900s, they have -- or had -- three faces. The bottom rung was the first- or seco...

After 1,390.5 miles of driving over two days, I arrived in the ancestral homeland -- Massachusetts -- on Tuesday night. And how do I know I ...

I'm driving back to Massachusetts from Minnesota starting tomorrow but my currency for renting at Thunderbird Aviation runs out at the e...

I'm as cynical as they come, and this is a good test to determine if you are, too.

Where's Bob? He's in Moorhead, Minnesota, eye-to-eye with the Red River. Meet my new friends .

Son, Patrick, sent this picture along today. Apparently it was picture day. This isn't the "official" picture, but I'm thi...

There aren't a lot of things I'd do differently as a child; only one, really. I'd have paid more attention to the piano. I am n...

I was working out at the hangar today when my hangar neighbor, Rey Hurdt, asked me if I wanted to go flying with him to try to warm up the o...

My dad died five years ago today at 84, almost 85. So up in Maine, my older sister made a snowman in his memory. It think it came out pretty...

I've enjoyed this winter, as I've written about before, but it gets to be around the middle of February, and when the equipment truc...

The last time I got a speeding ticket, was around 1975. I was zipping along through a speed trap in Holden, Massachusetts. I got a ticket, b...

Carolie and I had an idea a few months ago to build an ice castle with ice candles from a mold I bought. The weather since December has been...

I'm having the most enjoyable winter since I was a kid. I don't mean things are going well and it happens to be winter -- we all kno...

Season's Greetings from Minnesota! I am the last person standing. Carolie has gone to bed and the boys have gone back to their respectiv...