Full Buck Moon

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The full Buck Moon occurred Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 9:36 a.m. Central Time. It is named for the season when male deer regrow their velvet antlers.

Holy Dewpoint

 Monday, July 27, 2026

Rain? Nope. Just a dewpoint of 80 degrees and high humidity. It's gross out there.

Couple Cigars

 Tuesday, June 21, 2026

Couple cigars today. A little Hoyo. 

                                 

And a nice Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur. 

Coneflowers

 Monday, July 20, 2026

These came back just now. Don't remember them doing so well last year. 

The Tiger Lilies Are In Bloom

 Sunday, July 19, 2026

Dale and I were talking about this year's tiger lilies and both of us think this is the best they've looked in a few years. 

Our Return Home

 Thursday, July 16, 2026

We were gone for about a week and a half. Here's what the yard looks like.

I admit it's a little overgrown in spots but it's not as bad as I anticipated.

The annuals did really well despite the heat we had. Dale said we got a pretty good amount of rain while we were gone. That helped. 

Full Strawberry Moon

 Monday, June 29, 2026

AI pulled up the following info on the full Strawberry Moon:

The June 2026 full moon, known as the Strawberry Moon, peaks in illumination on Monday, June 29, at 7:56 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT). It appears as the first full moon of summer and will hang notably low in the southern sky.

Name: Historically named the "Strawberry Moon" by Algonquin tribes to mark the peak of the wild strawberry harvest. Despite the name, it appears a standard bright white or golden-orange (due to atmospheric scatter near the horizon) rather than pink.

Position: It traces the year's lowest arc across the sky, as it sits opposite the Sun just after the summer solstice.

Very hot and sticky today. Dale looked up the dewpoint. It was 78. The highest I remember  was 82. That was the record for the highest dew point temperature ever recorded in Minneapolis (Twin Cities) is 82°F, which was observed at 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM on July 19, 2011, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Gross. Very swampy today. Took a walk this evening - sun behind the clouds, still hot but not as bad as earlier today and there was a nice breeze.