Sounds of a Frozen Lake
It’s so cold in Minnesota… that when lakes freeze, they make oddly satisfying sounds.
It’s so cold in Minnesota… that when lakes freeze, they make oddly satisfying sounds.
It’s so cold in Minnesota… that lakes freeze and you can walk on them.
Had some fun freezing the window, then going through the Drive Thru
Punching through a window of frozen ice.
It’s so cold in Minnesota… that you can make windows out of ice and punch them out.
It’s so cold in Minnesota, that chocolate milkshakes freeze mid-air.
It’s the coldest Valentine’s Day in Minnesota since 1923. Learn how to have Valentine’s Day in the freezing cold. Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make Frozen Eggs, Frozen Spaghetti, Frozen Flowers, Frozen Chocolate Caramel, Hot Chocolate in the Air, and Ice Glasses. Frozen roses, frozen daises.
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you make get frozen toilet paper to suspend itself in the air!
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you make a pretty cool looking shaved ice bar.
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you make amazing sounds by hitting golf balls onto a frozen lake (We picked them all up a week and a half later when the ice was thick enough to ice skate on).
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you can make amazing sounds by throwing rocks across a frozen lake.
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you can skip ice across a lake
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you can make a huge carousel with ice on a frozen lake.
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… eggs freeze on top of each other when you crack them outside on the sidewalk.
It’s so cold in Minnesota that… you can get an even better Hot Mentos & Diet Coke effect in the cold.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can set your spaghetti outside and it will freeze in mid-air.
After we spent a lot of the winter building a Frozen Orbeez House with 3 million Orbeez, I spent the night in the house. We had an open house for others to see it and did an interview with the Weather Channel in the morning. Here’s the video of my time surviving in the frozen house.
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My friend Chris Smith has been talking about getting me to try snow swimming for years. Last year I finally took him up on his offer. Not sure if I’ll be doing that again. Brrrrr!
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make a house out of Frozen Orbeez.
This was our biggest Minnesota Cold experiment ever. We started building the frame in the fall and finally completed the house after dumping Orbeez into it for 15 days straight. I also spent the night in it after it was built.
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As a principal, I sometimes hear students say, “Mr. Ziegler, we shouldn’t have had school today. It’s so bad outside.” This is my usual response.
Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can crack an egg and it will freeze in mid-air. You can also fry an egg in the cold.
I took advantage of one of the coldest days in the past twenty years to try some experiments with freezing eggs.
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can build a house out of bricks made from ice (if it stays cold long enough). I attempted this one two different winters and failed both times. Stay tuned for my bigger and better idea this year!
I attempted this one twice and a stretch of warm weather killed the project both times. This year I’ve got a new idea that hopefully will work well!
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can build an ice rink in your backyard. This video shows how to make a backyard ice rink and how to add a logo to a DIY hockey rink. Special thanks to Dan & Lucy Olson and their ice skating kids!
Everyone loves to ice skate. Now you can make your own rink in your yard with these instructions!
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can spray down your playground to turn it into an ice castle (almost). This one didn’t turn out so well, but it was still fun to give the idea a try. Maybe given a little more time… Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
I was hoping that this one would have worked better than it did. Oh well, sometimes that’s the way it goes…
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Looking for a great way to wish someone a happy birthday? Follow these instructions for creative handmade four-picture folding birthday or greeting card.
Watch the video tutorial here:
You can create the cards two different ways:
Here is the pattern if you would like to try it yourself.
I hope you enjoy creating the card and make someone’s day!
Today U.S. Bank Stadium will host Super Bowl LII. For nearly three years, I took weekly pictures of the Metrodome demolition through new stadium construction. Below are some of my favorites.
Day of the first Vikings game in U.S. Bank Stadium.
It all started when I happened to ask a police officer why he was blocking off the road next to the Metrodome one Sunday morning. He said that they were going to be blowing up the walls of the Metrodome in a few minutes, so we stuck around. Here’s the footage I shot on my cell phone that morning with the kids in the car with me.
After that, I’ve been intrigued with the demolition of the Metrodome and the construction of the new Vikings Stadium.
I took pictures just about every week. Here are a couple of time lapses of the construction as well as links to the stadium’s progress since construction started.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can light up your sidewalk walkway with ice lantern luminaries. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these luminaries out of ice .
Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Ice Glasses and Ice Bowls.
Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make candle holders, bowls, and vases out of ice. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these ice orb candle holders made out of ice, bowls made out of ice, and vases made out of ice for your frozen flowers.
Minnesota Cold Part 19A shows you how to make Frozen Ice Glasses and Frozen Ice Bowls.
Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make glasses and a punch bowl out of ice. . Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
If you’re looking for some fun ideas for ice decorations for your Super Bowl party, try making these frozen ice glasses and punch bowl. I also show you how to make the slushy punch to drink with it.
Minnesota Cold Part 19B shows you how to make Ice Candle Holders, Ice Bowls, and Ice Vases.
Minnesota Cold Part 20 show you how to make Ice Luminaries for your winter party.
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can test out extreme heat versus the extreme cold. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you don’t have a sled, you can make one out of frozen Orbeez. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
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Last week completed almost 3 years of documenting the demolition of the Metrodome to the first game in the new Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium.
It all started when I happened to ask a police officer why he was blocking off the road next to the Metrodome one Sunday morning. He said that they were going to be blowing up the walls of the Metrodome in a few minutes, so we stuck around. Here’s the footage I shot on my cell phone that morning with the kids in the car with me.
After that, I’ve been intrigued with the demolition of the Metrodome and the construction of the new Vikings Stadium.
I took pictures just about every week. Here are a couple of time lapses of the construction as well as links to the stadium’s progress since construction started.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Below are 12 interesting things we learned when visiting Disneyland and California Adventure. Play the video or read about each one below.
1. Across the street from Peter Pan, the Evil Queen peeks out from behind the drapes.
2. Cast members jump from a pontoon and use scuba gear to fix and inspect World of Color.
3. After the fireworks on Main Street, the alley behind the Emporium opens to move the crowd out faster.
4. If you go early to Special Celebrations, cast members give you high 4s as you walk into the park.
5. The lights on Route 66 in Radiator Springs turn on each night at exactly the time of sun set.
6. Every once in a while people get stranded on rides when they break down (and sometimes get compensated!)
7. If you look closely, there are hidden Mickeys everywhere.
8. The private (and secretive) Club 33 doesn’t let you get in very far with a video camera.
9. The Mickey on the Ferris Wheel gets covered with a Mickey shaped screen for the World of Color show.
10. You can get free stuff on big Disney birthdays.
11. Cast members sometimes play jokes on the person who hands them the camera.
12. Disney really likes to play with fire and always ends their shows with a big bang.
See her original dance featured on entertainment TV:
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
After another loss this season without Torii Hunter, I thought it might be interesting to look at some Minnesota Twins stats with and without Torii Hunter over the past 15 seasons (plus a few games from this season).
Without Torii Hunter | With Torii Hunter | |||||||||
Year | W | L | % | Divison | Year | W | L | % | Divison | |
2016 | 7 | 17 | 0.292 | 5th | 2015 | 83 | 79 | 0.512 | 2nd | |
2014 | 70 | 92 | 0.432 | 5th | 2007 | 79 | 83 | 0.488 | 3rd | |
2013 | 66 | 96 | 0.407 | 4th | 2006 | 96 | 66 | 0.593 | 1st | |
2012 | 66 | 96 | 0.407 | 5th | 2005 | 83 | 79 | 0.512 | 3rd | |
2011 | 63 | 99 | 0.389 | 5th | 2004 | 92 | 70 | 0.568 | 1st | |
2010 | 94 | 68 | 0.580 | 1st | 2003 | 90 | 72 | 0.556 | 1st | |
2009 | 87 | 76 | 0.534 | 1st | 2002 | 94 | 67 | 0.584 | 1st | |
2008 | 88 | 75 | 0.540 | 2nd | 2001 | 85 | 77 | 0.525 | 2nd | |
TOTAL | 541 | 619 | 0.4664 | 3.5 | TOTAL | 702 | 593 | 0.5421 | 1.75 |
Note: Wins/Losses include all Twins games (not just the ones he started or played in) during the seasons Torii was either on or off the Twins’ roster. The 2016 record is through April 30, 2016.
These are the totals over the past 15 seasons plus the start of the 2016 season.
Some quick stats to point out:
The average place in the Central division without Torii was 3.5. The average with him was 1.75.
I think I’m seeing a pattern. We’re in for a long season… Torii, please come back!!!!
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
At the beginning of January, I noticed these large icicles hanging from the roof and snow build-up near the top of the new Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium.
Last week, the team began fixing the damage caused by leaky gutters by taking down the U.S. Bank sign, as well as many of the black panels. Below are several before and after pictures.
Here are some more pictures of what the stadium looked like this morning, now that many of the panels have been removed.
The picture below (sorry about the quality) shows the workers earlier this week, working late into the night with spotlights on the stadium, taking down the panels.
The StarTribune reported that the damage caused by the leaky gutters will cost $4 million to repair.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you throw a pot of boiling water off a seven story building, it vaporizes before it hits the ground. Watch and subscribe to the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: http://www.youtube.com/nziegler . Special thanks to Steve Carlisle for his assistance in this video.
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The new Vikings Stadium will be the site for Super Bowl 52 in the year 2018. Here are some pictures from this morning, two years before the kick-off of Super Bowl LII.
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
It all started when I happened to ask a police officer why he was blocking off the road next to the Metrodome one Sunday morning. He said that they were going to be blowing up the walls of the Metrodome in a few minutes, so we stuck around. Here’s the footage I shot on my cell phone that morning with the kids in the car with me.
After that, I’ve been intrigued with the demolition of the Metrodome and the construction of the new Vikings Stadium.
I take pictures just about every week. Here are a couple of time lapses of the construction as well as links to the stadium’s progress since construction started.
Below are my blog post pictures of the Metrodome demolition and the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium construction. (Most of these were originally posted at www.ZigsPics.com .
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Two years ago (January 2014), I took some pictures of the Metrodome demolition. Today I tried to take pictures from those same spots two years later. Pretty crazy the progress they’ve made on the new stadium.
More pictures documenting the progress over the past two years: From Metrodome Demolition to New Vikings Stadium Construction
And, I’ll throw in a picture from the west end of the stadium from today (even though I don’t have one from 2 years ago).
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… if you forget your flowers outside, they’ll freeze overnight and shatter in the morning. Special thanks to Chicago-Lake Floral in Minneapolis for the donation of the flowers. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
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Minnesota, it’s so cold that… you can make a human snowball out of frozen towels and roll it down the hill with someone inside. Special thanks to Hugh Brown for going into the human snowball and Steve Carlisle for helping shoot some of the video. Watch and subscribe all of the Minnesota Cold Weather Experiments: www.youtube.com/nziegler .
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Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
More pancake art videos and pictures:
Click on the Stadium picture below to see pictures of the new Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium.
The Vikings Pancakes made the news! Here’s the story: KARE 11 Pancake Art Story:
Minnesota Vikings Pancake Designs:
More pancake art videos and pictures:
More pancake art videos and pictures:
More pancake art videos and pictures:
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Click on the Stadium picture below to see pictures of the new Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium.
The Vikings Pancakes made the news! Here’s the story: KARE 11 Pancake Art Story:
Click on the Goldie Gopher picture below to see more videos and pictures of Pancake Art.
Viking Pancake Designs:
To view or print all of the Minnesota Vikings Pancake Patterns, download the .pdf file of the patterns here: Minnesota Vikings Pancake Patterns
To view or print all of the Star Wars Pancake patterns, download the .pdf file of the patterns here: Star Wars Pancake Patterns
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Click here to see more pictures of the progress of the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium.
To view almost 3 years’ worth of pictures of the Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium Construction, click here: Vikings U.S. Bank Stadium Pictures
Video and pictures of the lightning storm that went through downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 1, 2015. Shot with a Samsung Galaxy S4 in 1920 x 1080. Music used with permission: Epic Unease by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Originally posted at www.ZigsPics.com .