What a great long weekend! Amazing weather, lots of good company, visiting, and, of course fencing! We certainly had pretty darn good weather and here at my house, we received a half-inch of much-needed rain! The best part is the rain came and then the sun returned all in the […]
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Across much of Sunset Country, we are fortunate that black crappies have established themselves in many of our watersheds. While they are not native to our region, it is believed they likely were incidentally dropped into some of our lakes while they were being stocked with smallmouth bass nearly a […]
The day was chilly. The air filled often with freezing rain bits almost feeling like hail as it pitted your face this past weekend. My wife and I headed to the cabin last Wednesday afternoon to get a jump on finishing off several projects. It was a cool 10 C […]
Dandelions are abundant this year—and I love it! The joyful yellow blossoms always have seemed magical to me. I have fond memories of sitting in a beautiful meadow, as a young girl, making dandelion chains. Then I would hold up a magical seed head and blow it away to who […]
I like surprises, the good kind—like the toy inside the pink elephant popcorn box or a bouquet of yellow and orange balloons—but not the kind of surprise like popping an inflated paper bag behind me or jumping out from behind the couch to scare me. I like happy surprises. Spring […]
Many cattle now are out of their winter feeding locations and on pasture. This is a reminder not to forget the importance of mineral feeding while on pasture. Calf growth, cow reproductive status, and general health all are influenced by the intake of adequate amounts of salt and mineral. But […]
We can hope our frosty mornings are long gone now until later this fall, but you just never know! This is hard on the newly-emerged crops that are trying so hard to pop out of the ground. I certainly hope there is little damage as it is frustrating and expensive […]
The 25th-annual Sturgeon Bay Open bass tournament took place over the weekend at Sturgeon Bay, Wis.—on Lake Michigan. Some 171 teams participated in the event this year, which is a large community-run tournament much like the KBI and FFCBC that we have here in Sunset Country. Although the ice went […]
With television, messaging, and “YouTube” available to all of us, we immediately can feel the force and wonderment of Mother Nature. On Rainy Lake, we have watched winds blow ice from one shore to another—often sliding up shores and toppling tall red and white pines. We have witnessed the ice […]
I was reading Dr. Seuss the other day, looking for the meaning of life or, at the very least, looking for words that would help me understand life with a little more ease—a tall order on some days. Dr. Seuss wrote: Sometimes you will never know the value of a […]
The fourth FLW Tour derby of the season took place this past weekend at Pickwick Lake in Alabama and while it was some of the toughest fishing I have ever experienced, things ended up going pretty good for me en route to a 33rd place finish in the 165-angler field. […]
Well, if the weather channels are correct, we are in for the wetter, cooler weather that I was dreading. I realize a rain shower wouldn’t hurt anything and, in fact, improve the situation with our fire ban. But we don’t need inches and inches of the wet stuff. Likely some […]
