Walleye are this young man’s business on the lake
The Gribble gang may be Lake Erie’s hottest walleye fishing crew, knocking down approximately 600 charter trips last summer, a carefully planned and orchestrated...
Everyone is waiting for spring to arrive
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved,...
You light up my life
When Mr. Wonderful came home and lit a candle before we sat down to eat, I was noticeably touched. Such a romantic!
Scratch that. False...
Today
My friend, Jan, often quotes Psalm 118:24, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
How...
Sky dance: The woodcock’s courtship routine
In his classic, A Sand County Almanac (1949), wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold described the male American woodcock’s courtship display as a “sky dance.” I...
Could we handle another big flood?
As I sit here writing this article, the weather has been less than pleasant. I watch it transition from rain to snow, to sleet,...
Loan programs for socially disadvantaged and beginning farmers
The Farm Service Agency has loan programs to assist members of socially disadvantaged groups and beginning farmers to finance agricultural enterprises. Under these designated...
Your program caused these problems
In the run-up to the Great Budget Sequester of 2013, a deeply indebted America once again learned what every American knows from birth: your...
Your pastures took a beating last year, do they need some work now?
And ask neighbors not to throw clippings from shrubs over the fence. They could be poisonous.
As the last blasts of winter are covering our...
Draft dodgers
“I’m excited about insulation.”Who says that?I do. I uttered that very sentence the other night as we were preparing for bed. I have spent...
