This morning, Patty and I got up early and walked down the road to watch the controlled demolition of the smokestack at Xcel’s High Bridge Plant. Thousands of people turned out to watch, either because they wanted to witness a little piece of St. Paul history in the making or because they just wanted to [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 24, 2008
Weird Things I Found In Iowa (and Omaha)
Sorry, folks, no commentary here. I’m tired and I just got back from a vacation. You can sort this all out for yourselves.
June 16, 2008
Dodge Nature Center
The amount of cool places that I continually discover within just a few miles my house never ceases to amaze me. Tonight Patty and I took a walk through some trails at the Dodge Nature Center in West St. Paul. It’s an environmental education center for school-aged children, but it also offers free hiking trails [...]
June 1, 2008
Grand Old Day (Updated)
Generally speaking, St. Paul is a bit of a lonely city. If you visit downtown at 9:00 on a Friday night, chances are you’ll find it utterly, inexplicably dead. That’s why it’s nice that at least once a year St. Paul gets completely overrun by people during Grand Old Day. This year was my second [...]
