Spring 2025 has been great! We have had quite a few fun activities and it’s been wonderful to see the end of winter and the start of flowers and green.
For as much as I complain about Minnesota, there sure is a lot of to love. This is a wonderful play to raise children because there’s so much to do!
One of the neat experiences was visiting a local park to learn how maple syrup is made. We had the opportunity to tap a tree and watch the sap boil down in a specially-made maple syrup boiling room.
We had a chance to go to a Diwali celebration and Saint Patrick’s Day event in the same weekend. The juxtaposition was hilarious, one dancing style uses only feet and legs and the other dancing style has an immense amount of gyrations using all parts and limbs of a persons body.
The spring has been eminently beautiful – overall it’s an actual ‘spring’ and not the very short period of nice weather before summer starts. We have had a surplus of upper 50s to low 70s days which makes having a campfire in the backyard a wonderful treat. The last few years have been tough, we’ve had some pretty hot weather right out of the gate once winter ends and this spring is not that. 10/10 spring!
I made two trips to South Dakota and saw a parahelia on one of the trips – I had absolutely no idea parahelias happened in South Dakota; in all the years living there I had never seen one! I was also lucky to see a “lucky charms rainbow” that was so vivid ALL colors of the rainbow were easily seen. It was fun to visit the hills twice! I also visited Mt. Rushmore and it was fun to see the snow melt on the faces.
Lastly, I had a chance to participate in DoorsOpen; we went to the Star Tribune, the Light Rail service center, and, a metal recycling plant. It was a 10/10 experience! It is so wonderful to see how the world works, learn how things are made / get done, and, learn why things are the way they are.
Overall, it’s been a wonderful spring!
