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Ice fishing on Torch Lake

February 21, 2010

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Babs writes:  It was a beautiful day here so the fisherpeople were out without cover. I think the dude in the middle is about to reel in a big one. He was one of the lucky few.  Ice-fishing diehards tromped into the market all weekend, buying carryout fried chicken and prime rib because they had no […]

Coyote’s eye view

February 3, 2009

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I saw the pawprints myself while I was wandering about looking for a vantage point at the north end of Torch Lake. Might have been the gigundous dog that goes running with its owner early in the mornings—what is it, anyway, a Croatian Mountain Dog?—but I don’t think so. Although we can always hope, I […]

Chip butties, fishing shanties and other perils of a common language

January 7, 2009

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It all began with Carol Park’s famous recipe for scalloped pineapple, posted on Getting a good start.  That elicited a chain of comments filled with more recipes, British-to-American translations, and general hilarity.  I concluded that we could probably make a good thing out of an international table of equivalents for common foods.  For example:

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