Did I say my nephew was in his right mind? Joke!

To be fair, the weather had been in the 70's the week before and should be in the 60's this week. It was all Canada's fault.

Minneapolis is the first major city I have been in where they had the fishing report ("Crappie Weather") right next to the weather map.

BTW, a crappie is a fish and is pronounced "croppy." Do not get this wrong if you ever visit the Midwest. They call a sunfish a "sunnie."

Jim: that's right about the glacial erratics. These were old paving stones. We wondered how the old-timers got them into blocky shapes, because here in River City they seem unbreakable. The most common kind here is Sioux Quartzite. We call it the Courthouse Quartzite because when the pioneers got stuck with a huge boulder, they often put a plaque on it and called it a monument.

I stick by my Jackson Pollock opinion, although when we were trying to get from the airport to Minnehaha Falls, M.C. Escher seemed even more apt. We were not helped by Yahoo maps which must have come Through the Looking Glass.

Heck, I should have tried to buy a nickelharpa! Didn't even think of it.