Browsing All Posts filed under »Adventures outdoors«

I am an evil person who should have flying monkeys instead of fluffy spaniels

April 30, 2010

24

I have grievously injured the Cowboy. However, he has forgiven me. Miss Sadie has not.  It all began when we went to the mailbox for the paper, and the Cowboy found something unusually smelly and vile to roll in, even by his standards, and then, upon being scolded, figured might as well be hanged for […]

Katherine’s being cagey. Bet she found morels.

April 29, 2010

10

Katherine has been out and about, following her inclinations, which are reliable.  She found a small lake with bronze lily pads floating on it.  She sent us a picture of it, from “somewhere in Charlevoix County.”   The lily pads, she says, might be new this year or left over from last year.  “Have to go […]

Babs found the Sandhill Cranes

April 26, 2010

18

A dozen years ago my friend Carol Park took me to see the Sandhill Cranes at a park near Chelsea, Michigan.  Some of her friends were ornithologists who liked sharing what they knew, and lugged spotting scopes the size of small cannons to the park so that everyone could see closeups of the star attractions […]

Adventures with Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia

April 25, 2010

11

I can spend an entire morning watching the trees grow, but Rob the Firefighter and the Lady Alicia are made of sterner stuff. They are people who like to be up and doing. Here is part of what we got up and did on Saturday: Dog-walking through the woods, where we discovered what was most […]

No flipflops allowed in the chestnut orchard, and no Cowboys either

April 24, 2010

15

Bob Haack came into the market one day last week and bought a roll of painter’s tape.  It turns out that he has an orchard with 200 nut trees, most of them chestnuts, and he was going to do some grafting.   Could I, I asked, come see the orchard?  Indeed I could.  So yesterday morning, there […]

Three promises

April 23, 2010

4

It sounds like a selection at a Chinese restaurant, doesn’t it? “Three Promises: Shrimp simmered in Black Bean Sauce, Steamed Lobster bits with Ginger, and Baby Carrots suffused with Orange Blossoms.” Nuts. Now the Cowboy and I are hungry. Anyway, our Three Promises are far more mundane. This morning I am going to: Investigate the […]

Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Torch Lake Views

Copyright (c) 2008-2024, Gerry Sell

Please enter your email address to receive notices of new posts.

Archives

RSS Carsten in Denmark

  • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Blog at WordPress.com.