The loss of Friday Night Wine Bars at the Chattering Squirrel has long left us groping for a good alternative for a respectable glass of wine, delicious bites of food and a cozy, personal environment to enjoy them. We welcome the discovery of Full of Beans Coffee Cafe and Wine Bar at the corners of Hwy A&H. The service …
This picture says it all. The maples are ablaze with color right now and with a sunny, mild forecast ahead of us this week, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to bathe in the glow of Mother Nature’s glory!
I’ve become accustomed to being awakened before sunrise by all the logging operations and chippers around our house. I’m not sure when it will end. I assume it will go on and on for awhile. But this weekend, I was pleasantly surprised when instead of that old familiar drone and moan, I heard gun shots …
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 …
