Small challenges. Small reminders.
Here’s a video of Edie in the lake last weekend. It was hot as hell and it was my birthday month so I decided we needed to take the pontoon out on the lake for the first time all summer to celebrate,...
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Coming Home: Lake traditions become more precious with plus-one by Jessie Veeder 7-17-16 Forum Communications http://www.inforum.com I spent last week in vacation mode, which to some might bring to...
View ArticleSunday Column: On weather and roots
The sky out here is volatile. Perfectly pleasant one minute, and violent the next, those of us who grew up here in the north country have a sort of “expect the unexpected” instinct born in us when it...
View ArticleSunday Column: How ranch people become lake people
It’s been hot out there lately. I just pulled my first harvest from the ground in my garden and it got me thinking about the long, hot weekends spent on the ranch when I was a kid. Back before we had...
View ArticleSunday Column: On the little yellow boat…
April did us a favor and, after bringing us a little spring storm, it warmed up nicely this weekend. 50 degrees uncovered all sorts of treasures for us, mostly mud and things stuck in mud…like dog...
View ArticleThere’s nothing wilder…
There is something about a girl and a horse. Yeah, boys have their toys with wheels, their guns, their tools, their dogs and they look noble and masculine (and a bit like a western movie if they’ve...
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