Part of our winter fun is chasing the Minnesota Krampus group around the Cities. Little did we know that it is becoming more and more of a seasonal thing elsewhere too.
Granted, I am not sure I can make a 12-foot skeleton into a Krampus, plant him on the roof and have him whipping elves in the yard just yet…but maybe?
I love this guy. He seems to appreciate the breaks he has received and what it would take for others to get the same down the line.
It has been a month since I heard about his retirement but I wanted to make note of how great it has been to learn about this state from his reporting. Damn shame but great he is able to move on.
This has been an abundant week of chickens coming home to roost stories.
First, this one about Minnesota border towns trying to take the hit from losing up to the 30% percent of their former Canadian traffic because they helped elect a racist megalomaniac. Granted, since they are protected by the rest of us, their electoral college votes didn’t do it, but you know damn good and well who they pulled the lever for.
In Alabama they are facing a combination of bad growing conditions and tariff/immigration trouble. I see videos of farmers in Alabama and Nebraska literally crying in public meetings hoping someone will help them from THE VERY CONDITIONS THEY VOTED TO CREATE! Foreign contracts are cancelled, tariffs are killing their supply of fertilizers and parts. Nah, suck it up. You wanted others to hurt, now share in it.
Can’t wait to vote for Flanagan. She’s good people. That said, I wish Tina Smith was staying to fight and that Klobuchar was taking her “let’s play ball with Rafi Cruz” show away from the Senate.
I hate that this is gonna kick the Quad Cities right in the teeth.
That said, farm country may be the reason we’re stuck with this madman and the ag industry went all in. Now they are getting what they ordered delivered in bulk.
We heard this story a couple weeks ago. Pretty ambitious activity, though I am frankly amazed it has gone as well as it has.
With Gabriel’s drum tour this summer, I haven’t had a chance – or spare coin – to go catch a local game, be it town ball or the minors or barely any games on the tube even. Shame on me.
But don’t let that stop you.
For a limited time (as conditions deteriorate), if you need an emergency landing strip that rolls you straight into Canada, here’s your spot.
It is somewhat west of the Northwest Angle.
I love these guys. They seem to have a lot of fun crafting their machines. We used to catch them at the Maker Faires they used to hold at the state fairgrounds.
Nice to see them still doing the work.