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A picture of the aurora from my back deck.

My son in front of our house with the northern lights behind them.

My daughter in front of the lights.

The aurora was amazing tonight, very visible with the naked eye and even better in photographs. Plus it was early enough that my kids could see it before bedtime. It was amazing teaching them how to pick out the colors without the use of the camera.

However we knew it wouldn’t be Tina Smith. God, I love Tina Smith now that she isn’t running for reelection.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.

Xerxes the cat laying on the person laying in bed.

Xerxes

For my Minneapolis/Powderhorn friends

How else am I suppose to get angry at a stranger? Driving doesn’t make me upset since we left the cities.

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

They are trying SO FUCKING HARD to start a civil war and I don't know how we're supposed to just go on with our day as usual

They are having so much fun!

Zach did notice one person in the ED and judged him a little. I guess there was a MD PhD who was sitting with his sick wife working on his laptop. Zach thought he should stop working.

I have been debating it. That is why I haven’t just fed them to the squirrels

When it has been sitting in my cabinet for a year because I can’t let myself throw it away.

Black strawberry tomatoes

Black strawberry. This is what it looks like when it is ripe.

A variety of glass gem corn in multiple colors.

I grew glass gem corn last year and it is beautiful but it isn’t very useful.

If you do, let me know. I can grow some. Actually, if you want any of your seeds grown, I love growing “weird” things.

It is popcorn!

That is honestly pretty on-brand for Wisconsin

Not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, but if you think his show should be canceled for this, you’re a hack and a total fraud who should never pretend to care about free speech

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

Honestly, with two kids in public school, I am shocked you haven’t gotten it yet.

Henrietta, deathly allergic to milk, can eat shortbread. So it is possible. 🤞

Out hot peppers did do much much better than our sweets. Also our celery and onions did amazing.

Managing wildfire smoke: impacts to crops and workers Over the past week, most of Minnesota has been blanketed by unhealthy concentrations of wildfire smoke from fires burning in Canada and nort...

This was linked from a recent fruit and vegetable news but it is older. I read this and then went down a rabbit hole of reading other stuff. It can both help and harm.

blog-fruit-vegetable-ipm.extension.umn.edu/2021/08/mana...

When we moved to Rochester, it took me years to get used to them going off weekly at 10 a.m. instead of monthly at 1 p.m.

Aww…

Says the guy who has homegrown garlic for four months a year.

We should figure out how to make homemade jarlic

Multiple ones!

I don’t have one ancestor that was here during the civil war but I am pretty sure I am as American as you can be.

They are “black beauty” eggplants. We have a couple other varieties but they don’t have spikes like this!