View from the North 40: Thank you, Minnesota, I needed some validation

I don’t mean to sound paranoid, but the United Nations has set out to ruin my entire year, and they’re pretending that they’re doing it for my well-being.

Their website says that the United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 to be the International Year of Plant Health.

I’m not making this up. They are. They said they’re doing this “to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment and boost economic development.”

But I know they’re doing it to make me feel guilty about killing my spider plant.

That spider plant was the fi...