Keep your wits about you today. Lots of faux news types cranking out the content, for example: The company previously known as Google, and their new speech translation app for…
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It was 81 degrees yesterday so Robbie and I opened all the windows to let in the fresh air. No screens necessary, we thought, till we started swatting mosquitoes. Oy. It could be a long hot summer.
Here’s a 30-second animated slideshow looking back to a gorgeous, –20 F mosquito-free day in January in downtown Northfield. The photos are from two of my hoar frost photo albums, here and here.
Music: “Italian Movie” by Graham Wigley.
This Saturday, March 20, from 9a to noon, Carleton College is sponsoring a home electronics equipment recycling day. Items accepted include TVs, printers, fax machines, computer monitors, microwaves, stereo equipment,…
Chip DeMann is the new retail store manager for the Northfield Historical Society. I heard him on Wayne Eddy’s KYMN radio show yesterday say that the NHS retail space currently…
I saw a guy wading hip deep across the floodwaters at the footbridge below the Hwy 19 Lyman Lakes dam yesterday afternoon. Alas, I didn’t get there in time to take his photo. The ‘lake’ is covering most of Laird Field.
For a comparison of this year’s high water on the Cannon River, see the June 2004 floodwaters album, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
MPR’s Paul Huttner blogged that we hit a record high of 64 degrees today. It sure brought people outside in downtown Northfield. Don’t put away the long underwear just yet,…
Peter Seebach and my wife both alerted me to a massive ice jam on the Cannon River today. It apparently extended from the 5th St. bridge back to the Hwy 3 bridge by Babcock Park. But by the time I got there at 5 pm 
to take a photo, it had broken up and mostly cleared.
Fortunately, Carlson Capital Management’s Tim Jackson (who also has his own web design company, Computer Titan) captured the breakup with a photo and some video.
Despite the efforts of one of her bodyguards, I 
managed to get a photo this week of the 2010 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration grand marshal, Emily Monaghan.
The screenshot on the right is from the ad in the March Northfield Entertainment Guide.
See this 20-second video of the Folding Chair Precision Marching Unit from the 2007 parage which included Northfield City Councilors Jim Pokorney and Noah Cashman. I’m not sure if this will be in this year’s parade:
I noticed a ‘Riverwalk Market Fair’ sign on the door of Dean Kjerland’s Art On Water Gallery on Water Street, now home to the Riverwalk Arts Quarter (RAQ). A Google…