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Good steamy morning from Collegeville,

‘Hot and humid’ is the forecast for central Minnesota today. If you go out in the corn field tonight you might be able to hear the corn growing and if you drive your pickup into the field and lay on your back, you may get a meteorite show at the same time. “Catch a Falling Star and put it in your pocket”, a line from a hit single by Perry Como in 1957, could happen. Many of the meteorites do land on earth intact. In 1920 one was found in Namibia that is estimated to weigh 60 tons. According to Wikipedia, the ‘Hoba’ meteorite is thought to have fallen 80,000 years ago.

The Yukon Golds are wonderful and the cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen. It is amazing how much flavor there is in a tomato grown in your backyard. I have learned to look forward to an ‘all vegetable’ Sunday supper. At the Good Earth Food Co-op you can purchase brats made from Yukon Gold potatoes. I am looking forward to a good squash crop this fall.

The APHC show this week is a rebroadcast of a show that was presented on November 13, 2010, at the St. Augustine Amphitheater in St. Augustine, Florida. Special guests include The Nashville Bluegrass Band , Jacksonville native, JJ Grey. Andra Suchy joins Garrison and the band for a Florida-centric take on “Sloop John B”. In the News From Lake Wobegon, Becky Beckman keeps a promise to her husband Bradley by taking his place on an annual deer-hunting trip.

Little Falls favorites, “Harper’s Chord”, will be performing at Pioneer Place on Fifth in downtown St. Cloud, with “Broken Fiddle”, on Saturday August 22nd at 7:30. Tickets and details at ppfive.com

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged on one thing: the result.” Vince Lombardi