In my office at the moment sit four decoys for the annual Ducks Unlimited auction coming up this Friday evening. They range from a working decoy to museum-quality duck reproductions. Sitting on a filing cabinet, they face me from across the room. But come Thursday evening, they will travel to […]
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As a columnist, I receive many e-mails from authors, public relations agents, and people with ideas to promote. Usually, I take a quick look and delete them. But there is one author who always has interesting ideas. In fact, I had to sign up for Dr. Andrew Weil’s daily gems […]
For all the anglers out there, this time of year always offers up a bit of a breather. Sure, you can find a place to walk out on the ice to fish for lake trout, or search for those first bits of open water and get a boat wet. But […]
The glee was stacked as high as the pancakes and syrup they poked in around my table that morning before the hunt began. Goals were shared about egg collection; theories on where to look cooked up like the crispy pieces of bacon that followed the forks full of pancake down […]
We certainly ended up with a pretty decent Easter weekend compared to our neighbours to the north and east. We did see some snow, sleet, and rain early on Saturday, but we missed most of that and the sun was shining later that day! I vaccinated my cows, calves, and […]
I would like to begin by wishing all of my constituents a very happy spring. I know this past winter has been long, hard, and expensive for the majority of us, and we all are very deserving of a little sunshine, warmth, and, of course, the lower heating costs that […]
This is “Spring Fever” weekend in Emo. This year, it also might be known as the “Cabin Fever Breakout.” The businesses of Emo have, for more than four decades, drawn district residents together to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring and summer. Some 47 years ago, […]
I recently watched a video created by a Dutch father that captured his daughter’s first 14 years in slightly more than four minutes of continuous images of her developing face. The video appears on Facebook and has done the rounds, I would suspect. The idea is a fascinating one—one I […]
With the warmer weather that finally showed up this past weekend across Sunset Country, it finally feels like spring is just around the corner. The snow took a pretty good hit these past few days and it actually was nice to be outside after many months of nasty winter weather. […]
Landscape fabrics can help eliminate weed growth around trees, shrubs, and plants for years when laid done before the application of an organic mulch—saving the time and energy you’ll spend weeding and spraying herbicides. Landscape fabrics are woven, non-woven, or spun-bonded synthetic petroleum products that, when laid on the ground […]
It’s been so long since I’ve written a column, I’m almost not sure where to begin. My apologies for the absence. Trust me, it wasn’t due to a lack of desire to touch base with you all. But it’s been such a vibrant, exciting, and extremely busy sports scene all […]
We certainly still have more snow cover than last year at this time but I’m almost able to get my big ol’ research truck out of the shop! The snow was piled high and so icy that it made it nearly impossible to shovel. I think we’re a few days […]
