Saturday, March 27, 2010

Big, big, big, BIG time local Anoka County news. The wind turbine at the highschool on Hwy 116 across from Rum River Library ... it's ...

TURNING.

Really. Finally. Have a look. I saw this awsome event, for real, Friday, March 27, 2010.

Today at about 5 pm getting the mail, a Sandhill Crane flew directly over the house, sounding as they do, like a hard drive that's crashed with a bearing failure. I don't know if the two signs of spring are connected, but one official report on the wind turbines was that lubricant-hydraulic fluid from the California imports had become too viscous in Minnesota weather for the thing to turn over winter. Nice story, even if not true. Wimpy California transplants. All that.