I recently caught up with Dave McNulty to ask him about one of his closings. I’d heard the sellers had an exceptional background and wanted to know more about them. Dave told me one of the sellers spent two years in a concentration camp in Europe and actually witnessed his own father being shot. After …
Every morning we wake to and every day we live around the sound of chainsaws and wood chippers. It’s not the peaceful summer sound that we expected to surround ourselves with this year, but we say to ourselves that it’s the sound of progress. It’s like my dad used to say about the smell …
Anyone who has any interest or connection to our area knows about the straight line wind storm that blew through the area Friday night of July 4th weekend. It seemed to come out of nowhere and quickly changed the landscape in select pockets of our beautiful lake country. Words cannot describe the damage that some …
I’m so tired of talking about the weather! Enough already! It looks like Summer is making a fashionably late entrance and it’s safe to come out and play now – and just in time for the 4th of July! My father inlaw has made jokes for years that he doesn’t put away his long underwear …
What a glorious day for our fishing opener! The scenes from Yellow Lake say everything. Yellow Lake is our largest lake and anyone who knows how to operate a rod and reel will tell you it’s our best fishing lake. Trucks and trailers were lined up as far as the eye could see at Jeffries …
We finally synched our schedules with the weather and were able to put our dock in the lake last night. It feels so great to be interacting with open water again! Now we just need a boat and some sunshine… I guess I’ll settle for partly cloudy at this point. I don’t think I’m being …
One of the most uplifting and happy sounds this time of year is the moment that you hear the frogs begin to sing. It’s truly a sign that winter has let go of its grip! I’m happy to report, “They’re out!” Another thing that’s out, that doesn’t likely make a lot of people happy is …
We are starting to see waterfowl return to the area. This pair of swans found open water on Burlingame Lake where the lake meets the Creek. They seemed fairly relaxed while they basked in the sun, which has been a scarcity this Spring.
The Cheese Store in Alpha, attached to the Burnett Dairy Co-op has been a favorite stopping-shopping spot for most all who enter our lakes region via Highway 70. The store is always stocked with a vast variety of fresh cheeses, fresh homemade pizza, meats, specialty snacks and pantry items. Tom from our office raves about …
Mother Nature is a cruel force. Just when we had the taste of Spring right in front of us. Just when the songs of Spring birds floated through the air. Just when we tucked away our winter clothes…she gives us a reality check. We have at least a foot of new snow on the ground and the blowing and …
