We awoke Thursday morning to a layer of snow covering the grass. It wasn’t frost, either. It was honest-to-goodness “but-it’s-only-October” snowfall! At first I wasn’t too happy. But as I headed into town to work that morning I changed my tune. While driving down our road I found myself scanning the ditch where the snowmobile trail […]
We had an interesting week at Wildwood July 4th week. On Monday night, July 2nd, we rode out a severe storm that rolled through northern Minnesota. We had finished potluck when we saw on radar that the storm was approaching. At that point it was west of Bemidji and, although it looked somewhat severe, we had no indication
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I guess that it is officially summer at our place. You could argue that it’s still late spring since the Summer Solstice is still a week away. Or you could argue that summer started really early since we had such an early spring. However, for us summer begins when our guests come back. We work
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I’m pretty sure I’m old now. It’s not the sagging skin around my chin or the frown line between my eyes that makes me certain. It’s the feeling I get this time of year when 3:00 rolls around and I’m desperate for an excuse to head to the house and rest my aching back. Spring cleaning and
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Spring is my second favorite time of the year. That’s because it is the season where I anticipate my first favorite time of the year – summer! In northern Minnesota we prize our spring and summer because they are so brief. The first warm, sunny day of the year we all suddenly remember why we
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We weren’t too happy with Mother Nature when she didn’t support our snowmobiling plans this winter. However, what we didn’t anticipate was that our mild winter would be such a boon to MN ice fishing! We’ve had more fishermen in this year than ever before and fishing has been really good. Our guests have found lots
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