Browsing All Posts filed under »Frugal Bugle«

Kolu Stevens and the art of the Deal

April 20, 2012

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One of the defining features of life in Antrim County is that every township and village is well-supplied with individualists, marching along to the beat of their own bongos.

Your Choice $20

February 23, 2012

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Come back after and say thank you.

What was I thinking?

May 24, 2011

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I was down in Elk Rapids again, picking Jackie Weber's brain about matters editorial and genealogical, when I made a wrong turn and ended up in the place where they keep the illicit substances.

The yeast did not die in vain

January 16, 2011

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What was I thinking?  The wind came out of Alberta, picking up a bad attitude as it crossed the plains and barreled across Lake Michigan.  Snow fell.  Snow flew.  Snow blew sideways across the ribbon roads.  I was on Kidder Road headed over to the ale brewing workshop at Wagbo (properly the Martha Wagbo Farm […]

One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl

January 10, 2011

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I was out and about on my rounds, following a ribbon road out of Central Lake, when I saw a comical bird conference going on in a bare tree. Pull over, put ‘er in park, hop out. Every time I managed to get them in focus, the birds exploded into the sky as if the […]

Magnetic Attraction

January 6, 2011

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There is practically nothing more fun than playing with magnets. They are filled with mystery. They hold stories from the beginning of time. They work in invisible ways.