Tag: Minnesota
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The Desperation of the Daily NaBloPoMo Post
I am swamped at work. My house has decorative piles of laundry and magazines gracing multiple rooms. Dust on the furniture is waiting hopefully for someone to draw the next masterpiece, like an etch-a-sketch on a coffee table top. So what do I do instead today? Go hiking at nearby Jay Cooke State Park and…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Multiple layers are the rule, rather than the exception, when running the “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” in International Falls, Minnesota! Yes, only in Minnesota. The year I ran this 10K race, the starting line temps were around –20º Fahrenheit (that’s not a typo, folks) (-28º Celsius) with an added nip of wind that lowered the…
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LoLa, The Plucky Little Chicken That Could (With Your Help!)
As bloggers continue plowing through NaBloPoMo, I felt it was disingenuous for me to reblog a recent post (“Have You Been Getting Locally Laid?”) and count it as my daily post for purposes of the challenge . . . so you will just have to click on that link to return to my effusive raving…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
The original fifty shades of gray . . . Sometime the horizon is the thinnest of lines, a subtle demarcation separating the heavy sky from the frozen winter lake. Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Horizon” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the…
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Spooktacular! (Travel Theme: Spooky)
Originally posted on Travel. Garden. Eat.: Beautiful Glensheen mansion in Duluth, Minnesota hosted its second annual “Jack O’Lantern Spooktacular” last weekend. The evenings were classic bone-chilling, northern Minnesota fall weather, but they were clear with an almost-full moon for some of the nights of the event, which added to the spooky fun ambience! As you enter the grounds,…
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