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Ice Fishing on Bass Lake – Grand Rapids, MN New Year’s weekend Jay and some of our friends hit Bass Lake for the first time this year. He was surprised to find ice depth of almost 24″! I guess it isn’t too much of a surprise considering the cold weather we’ve been experiencing. Our snowfall in […]

Minnesota Winter Resorts Instead of a Hotel! Do you travel for hockey? Maybe your kids are big basketballers? I know a woman from church who seems to travel every weekend to either her son’s hockey tournament or her daughter’s gymnastic meet. You would think that Jay and I would be big travelers in our off […]

Minnesota Ice Fishing Season Is Here! Yep – that was our temperature yesterday morning: a balmy 3 degrees with a wind chill of -17. Yikes! As I took the dog out for a walk today I was unpleasantly surprised by the burn-your-face-off cold wind that was blowing in from the northwest. It doesn’t seem that long […]

Ice Fishing, Snowmobiling and Relaxing Winter Get-Aways Have you ever been driving down a highway and you see something in the distance that you can’t quite make out? You know it’s something but until you get a little closer you aren’t too sure if it’s a deer or a mailbox. That’s how I feel about the coming […]