Marooned without a Compass Day
November 6th is officially known as the "Marooned without a Compass Day." Who would have guessed? The 2nd of November was Deviled Egg Day, the 8th is Dunce Day and the 19th is the Have a bad day day. While searching …
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Save a Tree
Can you really save a tree by reducing or recycling your paper products? According to this statement on a website I would say the answer is "Yes!" "Printing paper on both sides of the sheet—rather than on one side—is …
This Man, That Man, Other Man
The Quetico Provincial Park has a chain of lakes known as the "Man Chain." It isn’t known where the names of the lakes in this popular route came from so it is anyone’s guess. There are other lakes in the …
Seeing Orange
It’s that time of year when you drive by a house and all you can see is orange. It isn’t leftover pumpkins or colorful leaves on the trees, but the blaze orange clothing of Minnesota deer hunters. Overalls, jackets, pants and hats are …
November Moon
People who live around Lake Superior are familiar with the saying, "The Gales of November." November is the month where the winds blow hard and the waves crash along the shores of the largest Great Lake. Lake Superior is a powerful …
Weather Forecast
I have been wanting to get out and paddle the Boundary Waters one last time this season but the weather has not been cooperating. It seems like it’s either been windy, raining, snowing or cold every opportunity I have had …
Staying Fit for Paddling
Halloween probably isn’t a great day to talk about staying healthy and fit. The aisles of candy have been beckoning you for months, the bowls filled with treats are set by your door, and if you’re like me you …
Trick, Treat or Something Else?
Halloween. The holiday that kids love almost as much as Christmas. When I was a kid I loved to go Trick or Treating and would run around the city as fast as I could trying to fill my pillowcase …
How to Have Sex in the Woods
This is the title of a book by Luann Colombo that generated much interest in our store this summer. I never had to guess what people were chuckling about when they were standing in front of the book shelf …
Superior Hiking Trail
Last week was the Minnesota Education Association’s Conference for teachers in Minnesota. What that meant for us parents with kids in school was break time. We took advantage of only a half of a day of school on Wednesday …