I really don’t want to do this. I enjoy having a quiet little blog about doings in Torch Lake Township. I like to tell you about people – the families they raise, the businesses they run, the leadership they provide. I like to make little jokes about my dogs, and The Rock, and the weather. […]
Just when you thought there was no hope for an elegant “season” in Torch Lake Township, along comes Boomeropia. The new boomer travel website has a category called “glamping” – glamorous camping.
For some reason, fishing has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s not that I’m any great sportswoman. No catch-and-release for me. I’m a catch and eat proponent. Take the yellow perch, for example – Perca flavescens. It even sounds delicious. But I also love just sitting in the boat thinking and fishing. It’s […]
I don’t normally feel compelled to revisit things, but I do feel that Daugherty Johnson’s Sled Dog Snow Sculpture is exceptional. Here is Daugherty’s own photo of his work.
Babs Young calls this “the beginnings of a killer sunset across the north end of Torch Lake.” I call it Mother Nature at her most seductive. Bet she has spring fever, too, the hussy.
Babs Young’s neighbors close up their houses and go away just when things are getting interesting. They’d really rather be here with us, watching the lake freeze over, monitoring the progress of Ryan and Andrea Romeyn’s new barn, tracing the patterns ice crystals form on the windows as the LP tank empties. Babs is a kind […]
May 8, 2008
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