Category Archives: Outdoors

How’d You Spend Your Sunday?

11/18/2007 – 8:14 pm

Sunday was a gorgeous late fall day. Unfortunately, we had to spend it doing our annual garden clean up. Sore back now, but it’s well worth doing this before the snow. Spring cleanup is roughly 10,000 times worse. Before… …and after Before…This one the perspective is a bit different but the point is the same, [...]

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UHR 2007, Brought to You by Jameson

8/9/2007 – 9:56 am

We came up with a new slogan for the trip’s fifth (and most popular) companion, Jameson Irish Whiskey: “Jameson — It Takes the Edge Off.” The edge off what? Well, just about everything. It’s no wonder that cowboys used to drink bathtubs full of whiskey. The above photos were taken one after another after reaching [...]

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Back and Busy

8/7/2007 – 11:30 am

UHR 2007 – Apostle Islands is in the books. As always, it was a terrific (and exhausting) time. The weather more or less cooperated. No big thunderstorms or rain but the wind and waves make all the difference in the world. They were more or less in our faces the second day, which also happened [...]

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Another Hiatus

8/2/2007 – 10:21 am

I’m off for another long weekend excursion, but first… Classic. In case you’re wondering about the headline, good friends Kieran Dyer and nutter Lee Bowyer are set to be reunited after their remarkable fist-fight—which happened during a home game…when they were on the same team. (If you watch the video, keep your eyes on the [...]

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The Yooper Mimosa

7/30/2007 – 10:48 am

Last post for the day, promise. But I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t widely publicize the creation of a new drink: the Yooper Mimosa. Exhibit A: Yooper Mimosa ingredients * A “Yooper” is of course the nickname of the people of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or U.P. If you live in the U.P., [...]

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There and Back Again

7/30/2007 – 9:52 am

This weekend’s trip to the Porcupine Mountains on the shores of beautiful Lake Superior was far more “Boy Meets World” rather than “Man vs. Wild,” but a good time was had by all nonetheless. I’ve also posted a full set of pictures: trails, cabins, sunsets, and campfires. Who could ask for anything more? We’d been [...]

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Man vs. Wha…?

7/27/2007 – 8:16 am

Now that I’ve seen every MythBusters, Brother Troy turned me on to Discovery’s “Man vs. Wild,” a show where a former special forces British guy named Bear Grylls is dropped into the middle of nowhere and has to find his way back to civilization. I’ve seen episodes in the Everglades, the Scottish Highlands, Costa Rican [...]

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Bookiness

7/24/2007 – 9:32 am

I sold about a dozen books to Half Price books yesterday for a measly $19, which I turned around and bought Solaris, The Lathe of Heaven, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Dubliners. For the really super-attentive of you, you may have noted that three of the four are likely to appear in my [...]

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81,333

7/22/2007 – 10:22 pm

Yeah, so that whole novel thing is now done. 81,333 words, 268 pages. Most of those words need a lot of work but at least it has beginning, middle, and end. The revisions begin, oh, tomorrow. I started with an 8800-word short story and wrote about 10K words a week for eight weeks, averaging about [...]

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The Buckhorn

6/26/2007 – 10:25 am

/ Right, so we spent the weekend canoe camping (sort of) at Buckhorn State Park outside Mauston, WI. It’s really quite a short jaunt from Madison, a little under two hours one way. Clicking on any of the images below will give you a bigger picture. Mapquest totally hosed us on the directions (surprise!) so [...]

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