Blooming tree season lasts about a week in these parts, which is good news for people with spring allergies. Pay attention and don’t miss Blooming Tree Week. I may even get out and take some pictures. Happy Monday!
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Happy Spring 2025
Today is the first day of spring. As always I look forward to gardening and today I’ll be starting some plants for the garden. I use discarded packaging like egg cartons and the plastic clamshell that mini cupcakes come in. I like to start tomatoes, peppers, zinnias, and marigolds from seeds and bring them outdoors when it is warm enough. I grow herbs, in the house during the winter. I have big plans.
I have already gotten the bike out and taken it for a spin. Winter isn’t completely over yet. We may have a few more snowstorms. Leave those shovels out, it is bad luck to put them away in March.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2025
Yes, there is a parade today in St. Paul every March 17th, with modifications during pandemics.
MONDAY, MARCH 17TH AT NOON, DOWNTOWN SAINT PAUL
The parade will commence at Rice Park (5th St & Market St) and proceed along 5th Street, concluding near Mears Park (5th St & Sibley St).
There was much drinking and debauchery over the weekend; there will be more today.
It is a lovely day for a parade, and it is always lovely in downtown St. Paul.
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Cold weather power outage – McGovern’s fire
At 1:00 AM Saturday, the power went out for about an hour. The temperature outside was 7 degrees. It didn’t take long for the temperature in the house to drop 5 degrees, which is what woke me up.
Xcel Energy got the power back on. The cause was a car hitting a pole with a transformer next to Patrick McGovern’s restaurant, which started a fire that damaged the building. Night-time power outages are scary on cold winter nights. Thanks to the Xcel Energy workers who were out there in the cold restoring power.
I hope the turret in the picture can be repaired.
With so many bars on West 7th Street, it is amazing that there aren’t more incidents where cars crash into buildings but there have been a few.
Happy Veteran’s Day 2024
Thank you for your service.
The man in the picture is my grandfather Joseph Rousseau, who fought in World War 1. He owned a house on University Avenue near Marion Street where my mother, his only child grew up. He was born in 1883 and died ten years before I was born.