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Help is at hand

December 26, 2008

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Last week my deck and steps were covered in snow on top of ice on top of more snow on top of more ice . . . you get the idea. I tackled it with my trusty chopper and shovel, but I wasn’t making a whole lot of progress. Then I got Tom Morrison over […]

An old-fashioned barn-falling

December 17, 2008

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Last Wednesday Mark White put his beef cattle in the big barn that has stood along US-31 for 90 years and left to do some errands. When he came back an hour later, it looked like a giant had taken a bite out of his barn. The roof had collapsed under a heavy load of […]

Beware the West Wind

December 15, 2008

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My friend Marcia McClure was living in Buffalo during the Blizzard of 1977, and remembers the sound of the wind howling off Lake Erie for days. That was what got to her. Not the 30-foot snowdrifts that trapped everyone indoors. Not the bitter cold. Not the groceries running low, or the fear that the power […]

Very well, if you simply must shop . . .

December 14, 2008

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While I’m obsessing over the weather and the misadventures of the Disreputable Duo, my software tells me a lot of readers are getting here by searching “Torch Lake gifts.” So many, in fact, that the Cowboy suggests we turn the Writing Studio and Bait Shop into a gift shop. I think not, but here are […]

Pretty but menacing

December 13, 2008

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These are the icicles hanging from my eaves. Some of them, anyway. Aren’t they pretty? The only problem is that up above them there is a big pile of snow. In the forecast: warming temperatures, more snow, and eventually, rain. This is a prescription for disaster unless I get up there and get some of […]

Special holiday shopping

December 10, 2008

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Relieve some of the stress of the season.  Buy the perfect present, one that’s needed and wanted and doesn’t even have to be wrapped!  And I guarantee you can find something within your budget—how great is that?  Here’s what you do.  Visit Sonny’s Torch Lake Market or the Eastport Market or the Torch Lake Township […]

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