Woods and Water - Dick Herfindahl
If you are finding it hard to think of something to do this winter, you may want to focus on planning a summer vacation. I know that most folks in these times don’t plan out a week's vacation in advance unless it involves flying to a tropical paradise somewhere. For many years we would take at...
With the mild winter that we have been having it seems like there are not as many birds at the feeders as there have been. Nothing has changed in what I have been feeding them so I believe that the weather may have something to do with it. I’ll have to chalk it up to another mystery of nature...
If it were 35-40 years ago, I would be stressing out about the lack of ice at the parks. We have not had much snow, and the temperatures are unseasonably warm for this time of year. In their youth, my two sons spent much of the winter either skating at Academy Park or sliding down the hill on...
I can’t believe that it is almost the end of January. It seems that, as you grow older, the days and months seem to fly by. I am not saying that getting close to spring is a bad thing, but slowing the horses down a little wouldn’t hurt anything. I see from the weather forecast that we are going...
I can’t say that I don’t enjoy looking out the window and seeing a white landscape, but, with the beauty of it also comes a little work. For health reasons, I have not been able to spend as much time out in the cold as in other years. I substitute my being present by watching the birds and...
A picture of Brian and I relaxing by a campfire while enjoying a refreshment.
Whenever I get into the first few weeks after the New Year, I tend to look back on some of my memories of days gone by. This time I will start with a current memory, thanks to my grandson Trevor. He went north over the new year to try ice fishing on one of the many northern lakes that are in the...
Shown here is a picture of our first great granddaughter, Avery, being held by our first granddaughter, Emma, while Emma’s younger sister, Ava, looks on.
On to the good stuff: my wife Jean, and I were blessed with our first great granddaughter, Avery Marie Herfindahl being welcomed into the world on August 4th. She was born to her proud parents, Taylor and Lynzee. This was followed by the wedding of our grandson, Dylan, to his long-time girlfriend...