4mnhomebuyers.blogspot.com

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Well, we had a bear

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2007/11/well-we-had-bear.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Well, we had a bear. The bear came to our area. He caused a big stir, we don't often see bears around here. He ate some bird food, left some tracks. People called the DNR, alot. What should we do? They'd never seen a bear. They chased it up a tree and shot it. Now someone has a bear skin and the dangerous animal is gone. Wow, that was a short visit. I won't invite any friends that look like bears. Posted by John Tittle. Red Wing Nature Notes.

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Solar Water Heater Project- Step One

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2009/02/solar-water-heater-project-step-one.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Sunday, February 22, 2009. Solar Water Heater Project- Step One. I'm posting this on the web as a way to encourage myself to do some thinking before I get too far into this project. We'll see if I get past the thinking stage. I plan to turn the shed into a regular storage shed now which requires covering the skylights to make the space useful. I'd rather not waste the solar potential of this building. I think it can be adapted to my use. To use this building as a storage...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Chickens Keeping Me Up

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2009/05/chickens-keeping-me-up.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Tuesday, May 05, 2009. Chickens Keeping Me Up. Recently, we decided to raise a few chickens. We brought six cheeping fuzzy chicks home from the farm supply store. For the first few days they lived in a rubbermaid tub in my office. Then the smell and noise got too bad and they moved into the garage. Normally we delight in the wonders of the natural world. Tonight is different. We have elected to leave the chickens outside in the chicken tractor for the first time toni...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Foreclosure - A Moment in Time

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2010/12/foreclosure-moment-in-time.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Foreclosure - A Moment in Time. Finances have been a little scarey for our household the last couple of years. During times like this plenty of worthy thoughts go through your mind, it is just hard to settle down enough to commit them to the written word. Today I got a questionnaire via email and thought even though I usually delete such things maybe I would respond to this one. When I said "I think I'll try being a Realtor" it felt like somet...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: New Moon

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-moon.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Tuesday, April 01, 2008. There was a half moon when I posted last week. There is almost no moon today, Next week there will be a half moon again, growing larger. It seems strange that the phase of the moon follows my weekly entries. The moon has become detached from the weeks and the months on the calendar and I forget were they come from. I live by my calander. I am busy. It is easy to forget about the moon. How do I know what else I have forgotten? I had to scan the sk...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Winter Solstice - Random

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2007/12/winter-solstice-random.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Sunday, December 23, 2007. Winter Solstice - Random. It is the day after the winter solstice. It was warm, in the 40's, but the cold air has come rushing back. It is snowing hard but the snow doesn't seem to hit the ground. Instead it remains suspended in the air, blowing horizontally making it hard to see trees in the distance. It's funny, but the moving trees have put me in mind of something that happened in the summer. I'm not sure if I discovered this myself or r...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Magic Light

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2009/07/magic-light.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Thursday, July 02, 2009. I took a walk this evening in the fields. It's been cloudy and cool for the first of July, but this evening the clouds retreated before the sun set. I have said many times before that I think there is magic in the late afternoon sun. I say it to myself when I walk some evenings. Maybe it's better that I don't sit down in the grass.It is quiet now, I don't hear truck engines or sirens or trains. Only the birds and bugs continue their sound...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: Moon & Me Talk Trash

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2008/03/moon-me-talk-trash.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Friday, March 28, 2008. Moon and Me Talk Trash. I turned my head for just a moment. When I looked back at the moon it was cool and distant. Half its previous size and nearly blue. There was nothing I could do. Once around this time of year I found abandoned baby red squirrels in a tool shed and we raised them. From helpless, hairless little things they grew strong and energitic. They were not designed to live in an aquarium. Their energy was fearsome. Whe...I have notice...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: The Small Town of Welch

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2009/04/small-town-of-welch.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Friday, April 17, 2009. The Small Town of Welch. There is a story by Jack London called The League of Old Men. It is centered around a Native American Man named Imber who describes the coming of white men to North America. He relates the observation that white men seem weak and harmless but he has come to know they will take over the world. There is nothing that can stop them. Suddenly as I stand before the little window and the man behind the counter I feel like I am ou...

onuthinmuch.blogspot.com

Nothing Much: New House in the Country

http://onuthinmuch.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-house-in-country.html

Stuff I write just to get it out. Saturday, September 15, 2007. New House in the Country. It's about 4:30 in the morning. I woke up about an hour ago. I was laying. In bed wondering why I woke up. I thought maybe I was cold. It's down around freezing tonight outside and we haven't turned the furnace on yet. As I wake up more I know I have plenty of covers and it is something else that woke me. I realize it is an unfamiliar. Sound that has reached through sleep to wake me. All day it was chilly and windy&...