The world has taken a turn towards the cold. The sun comes out but it’s not warm anymore — we’ve taken the big turn towards fall. People are wearing hats in Lake Wobegon. People are turning on their furnaces. down load the mp3 from here

It’s been cloudy. It’s been chilly out there. The sun has come out now and then. And then on Thursday this powerful wind came up — it was very dramatic. Some people lost phone service and weren’t even aware of it at the time and leaves blew off some of the trees completely. down load the mp3 from...

We’ve had snow out there. We had about a foot and a half of snow here this last week, which just sort of killed some people who are just tired of winter. But it snowed anyway, despite their objections. down load the mp3 from here

It’s gotten very cold there this last week. The temperature’s been highs in the 20s. Cold, bitterly cold weather. It’s the kind of weather we’re used to. The Northern Lights have been so beautiful–these tongues of green, tips of orange at night. down load the mp3 from...

Fall is in the air. The last of the gardens being brought in–bumper crops of tomatoes. Irene Bunsen had the great satisfaction this week of walking out of her back gate, out of her garden, and across the alley, and down the way, and into the back gate of her brother-in-law Clarence Bunsen. down load the mp3 from...

For a while I grew up the son of a Swedish sharecropper in North Dakota and I got on a toboggan in January and there was a prevailing wind out of the northwest which blew me down to Minneapolis and it just seemed like too much effort to go back. And they didn’t seem as if they would miss me anyway so I stayed here. down load the mp3 from...