Woods and Water - Dick Herfindahl
As we venture into the next season, I like to take some time to go for a drive around the area. Driving on gravel is usually a little more difficult in the spring, but it’s not as bad as it was over 50 years ago. Before I went into the service, I worked at Conger Creamery as a driver and carrier...
As spring continues on in its usual attempt to keep us guessing, the birds are continuing to entertain me. I am not very impressed with the starlings and blackbirds that now appear at my feeders, but I guess that they have to eat too. Early Sunday morning I had a visit from a red breasted...
After reading the article in the Tribune I am very disheartened with the state of the DNR. For as long as I can remember, the DNR has been an advocate for clean water and the environment. This is why I cannot understand why they wouldn’t approve the dredging permit for the final leg of the...
As we venture forward into the next season, I always seem to have this little voice in my head saying, “it aint over ‘til it’s over.” I guess that I always have trust issues when it comes to Minnesota weather predictability. I can remember when we had a snowstorm in May and Santa Claus was water...
As we, as true Minnesotans, work our way towards the next season (spring), the older generation still keeps a lookout over their shoulder for that one big snowstorm that will most certainly come our way before the next season appears. For years it was an unwritten rule that there would be a...
As we, as true Minnesotans, work our way towards the next season (spring), the older generation still keeps a lookout over their shoulder for that one big snowstorm that will most certainly come our way before the next season appears. For years it was an unwritten rule that there would be a...
As I look ahead a couple of months in anticipation of spring and visiting our cabin once again, I feel that tingle of anticipation. I always look forward to my first visit of the season and anticipate what may lie ahead. I look at it as a rebirth of another season. Each season has its own...
Whenever I look back at my days after the service, I think of how the many things that didn’t seem important to me have now taken precedence. I have always appreciated wildlife, and when my boys were young, I tried to point out the smaller things in life, like seeing an eagle or an owl in flight...
When our family first began working on the land that we had purchased in Northern Minnesota, it was a dream come true. My son Brian had a definite plan for the kind of cabin that we would build. He is a carpenter at heart and had worked in the trade for a few years. He drew up the blueprints and...
The chubby little rodent has spoken, and we are facing another six weeks of winter. As a non-rodent, I feel confident that most of the nation does not have spring in February. The middle of March has brought some vicious winter blizzards in the past, so the chances of this happening are fairly...