A First
This is the first weekend I haven’t wanted to be out camping in a long stretch of weekends. The forecast looks cold, windy and wet with the possibility of our first snowflakes. This first weekend of October Mike and …
Year: 2009
Red Flag Warnings
I just realized another reason why I love Fall. When the wind blows strongly in the Fall the weather forecasters say there is a Wind Advisory. Isn’t that awesome? How bad can a wind advisory be if you aren’t …
Problems with Perfectionism
Let me start out by saying, "I don’t have a problem with perfectionism." The problem I do have is that I am not surrounded by other perfectionists. This makes life a little more complicated and stressful for me and everyone around …
Brrrrr
Today it feels like we skipped fall all together and went right into winter. The temperature got down to 22 degrees last night and my house is finger freezing cold. That’s when you’re typing and your fingers get so …
Holy Wind Batman!
The wind pounded Northeastern Minnesota yesterday and well into the night. Winds gusted up to 35 mph on the Gunflint Trail while down in town it had to have been even more. Whitecaps could be seen everywhere with 2-3 …
The Color Purple
It started with a spot here and there about one mile from the Dome. Then as we got closer it was like an ocean of purple with waves on every sidewalk and every street. You couldn’t look in any …
Concrete Wilderness
I’ve left my lovely northwoods for a completely different wilderness experience. It is a strange place where instead of pine trees towering in the sky there are hotels and office buildings blocking out the sun. Instead of rushing around inside of buildings to …
I Found It!
Tired of searching through pages of our website or blog looking for that one piece of information you can’t remember where it was? I was but no longer will be with the Google Site Search tool on both the …
Like Shells On A Beach
When I go walking on a beach I usually don’t get very far. I don’t get much exercise either because I spend most of my time bending over to pick up interesting looking shells. By interesting I mean pretty much any …
A Job I Wish I Had
I can’t think of a better way to spend the summer than being out in the canoe country. I know I live close to the Boundary Waters and Quetico Park but there’s a difference between that and actually being in …