I’m now 50 minutes away from Rochester MINNESOTA, not NY! That’s about 1 hour and 45 minutes from the Twin Cities. ( Minneapolis/St Paul). Eh, it’s so so. Was growing. When I was young but now is a dying town, mostly seniors and immigrants .

From the time I turned 18 I moved away, first to Wisconsin then to the Twin Cities then to Albuquerque New Mexico and on to Texas where I settled into Austin Texas for a couple of decades. If I had the means I’d love to return to New Mexico, the dry heat was amazing but because of location it cooled off at night. But I returned here to family and must admit I have a good life. There’s 4 seasons but winter hangs on a bit too long and spring and fall are far far too short. Summer can be beautiful but humid. This is the land of 10,000 lakes and they are beautiful.

And oh, the Mosquito is the state bird in the summer, the one good thing about winter is that it kills them off. Just kidding, the loon is the state bird.