A camel in Antrim County

December 14, 2008

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Treasures come to me through this blog.  I feel rich every time I open a new letter from Katy or Katherine or Babs or Donna or Beth . . . Today Katy Edwards Newman writes:  Somewhere in the back of my memory, there was a camel in our barn (not surprising considering my mother’s bent). I […]

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Winter Solstice celebration at Raven Hill

December 14, 2008

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Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:00 p.m. The best thing about the Winter Solstice (at this latitude anyway) is that each day after that will have a few more minutes of sunshine. OK, what passes for sunshine during our winters.  Not-darkness anyway.  Every year Raven Hill Discovery Center (between East Jordan and Boyne City) celebrates the […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Katherine and the impressionist deer

December 11, 2008

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Katherine writes: I was wondering if the birds were much more voracious this year than usual because I have been going through bird seed like there’s a hole in the feeder. I caught this deer at the feeder along with 3 of her friends or kids. No wonder the seeds have been going. Hm. Reminds […]

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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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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.

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