Woods and Water - Dick Herfindahl
I still have not been able to do much fishing this year, but hopefully that will change in the next week or so. I am hoping to get up to the cabin in the very near future. My boat must be missing me by now, so I will attempt to rectify that on my next visit.
Whenever I go to the cabin, it...
It is good to be back home and taking a break from the heat that I was broiling in while at the cabin. I actually cannot remember a week at the cabin that was that hot. It was like when I was a kid when there was no air conditioning. I did have two fans at the cabin, which was one more than we...
This week I am writing my column from the confines of our cabin. I know that it has happened before, but I cannot say that I can ever remember visiting the cabin when the weather has been this consistently hot. Luckily, I did most of the mowing on Friday; after I had finished unpacking, I tried...
I have always loved spending some alone time on the lake and observing nature up close and personal. Here are some pictures that were taken over the years. These pictures were taken a couple of days after I had attended the 2011 fishing opener. I had taken my small boat to a lake a few miles from our cabin to do some fishing. One of the pictures is of one a few free campsites on that lake.
Once again, I am anticipating spending time at the cabin in the near future. I will get to try out my new riding lawnmower. I have never owned one before, so after I bought it, I headed down to my son Brian’s for a little driver’s education. I have been sitting at home for much too long, and I...
I have written many times of how important sharing our outdoors heritage with our youth is. The next generations will be carrying on the tradition of our outdoors. Fishing and hunting are important to my generation and for the generations that come next.
While my fishing and outdoors...
The 4th of July went on, but with a few cancellations because of the flooding. The parade and the fireworks went on as scheduled, between the raindrops. The reason for the 4th of July is to celebrate our independence from Great Britain. Some folks feel that it is an excuse to shoot unlimited...
Here is a pictures of my granddaughter, Emma after she caught a fish with her dad this summer.
It stopped raining last weekend, so that we could enjoy a couple of nice days on Saturday and Sunday. I love it when the temperature cools down at night after a pleasant day. We are now well past the summer equinox, so the days are slowly getting shorter.
July is a month that I usually...
Looking back to last year at about this time, we would have been happy to have had about half as much rain as we have been getting now. I am not going to start a rant about the rain but the farmers are the ones who will ultimately suffer. We are now in the age of farmers renting or buying up more...
About four years ago, I was alone at the cabin and decided to take a little trip to explore a State Park that was not too far from there. Scenic State Park is a little east and south of Marcell, MN. With its pristine lakes, virgin pines, swimming beach, and wilderness-like setting, Scenic State...
Here is a picture of a hummingbird that my son, Brad, captured on our last trip to the cabin.
I spent most of last week at the cabin doing yard work and relaxing. When I arrived, I was greeted by a large pine tree that had fallen across the driveway. After driving for 5 1/2 hours, I wasn’t all that excited about spending time playing lumberjack. Although the weather cooperated; it was...