Hello One and All

Well, I’m back — from a long week’s vacation which included road trips to Wisconsin & Iowa, completion of a couple fairly major home renovation projects, and celebrating my 59th birthday by going to see Steely Dan at the State Fair. A lovely time even tho it rained pretty much all through the concert [...]

Green… Olive Green

7-19-2011 6-35-17 AM

Sounds a bit Ian Fleming-y, yes? But that’s me right now. Olive green –with envy. Why? Because two of my dearest friends have just moved to Spain. Not to just anywhere in Spain, either. No, they have relocated to southern Spain– to Andalusia, which you who know me well will recognize as the number [...]

I Will Make Krumkakke No More Forever

Or:  I don’t care how many you said you wanted.   192 is enough for anybody!   

Pictured:  the last of the 16 dozen krumkakke I made last week.

Grandma Dallelie’s Krumkakke Recipe

6 eggs, room temperature 1 C. sugar 1 C. melted butter 1 tsp. whipping cream 1 C. flour 1 tsp. (rounded) ground cardamom

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85 years ago today a mystery was born

Longtime readers may recall that I’ve written a post or two about my father over the years, including some background about the rather… shall we say… unusual circumstances in which he was put up for adoption.

I was in my early teens when Mom told me that Dad had been adopted shortly after he [...]

No makeup. No retouching. No apologies.

This is what I look like in 2010.  On a good day.  Photo taken after a long afternoon spent traipsing around Canal Park and downtown Duluth on a cold, rainy, blustery Saturday in April.

…Instead of holing up in the nearby DECC, where, at the time this photo was taken, I believe the DFLers [...]

God Jul

So, night before last at around 8pm I suddenly had this brilliant idea:    I would go down to the basement and search through about a dozen steamer trunks and footlockers to find ALL of the family slides;  find ONE PARTICULAR SLIDE out of hundreds no, make that well over a thousand;  convert the [...]

A Tale of Two Newspaper Clippings

Judging by the echoing reverb of the crickets chirping in my visitor stats since my last post,  I think it’s safe to say that the only thing people want to see less than Rush Limbaugh’s face is Rush Limbaugh’s face framed with goatse hands.    Curious how nobody wants to look at the visage of [...]

21 years ago today

Apropos of nothing

Jeez it’s really been a while since I posted anything here.   A hearty  Sorry about that hereby goes out to anyone who has felt neglected or who gives a good goddamn about what happens or doesn’t happen at this blog.

Status report:   everything’s fine, or as close to fine as it ever gets.

The [...]

Deserted Baby Boy

Here’s the front page of the Minneapolis Journal for Saturday evening June 6, 1925:

There was a lot going on:  A heatwave across much of the nation had killed 238 people, but President Calvin Coolidge vowed nevertheless to travel to Minnesota to make an address at the Norse-American Centennial celebration at the State [...]

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