This story was published in this week’s Elk Rapids News. If you’ve already read it, thanks, and we’ll see you over here tomorrow. For those of you who missed it, probably because you’re in Florida or Arizona for the winter, this is your chance to catch up. Jack Norris of Torch Lake Township has researched this issue […]
During the winter months I’m inclined to look around the Writing Studio and Bait Shop and think to myself, Surely there’s a better way to organize this place. Then I take the dogs for a walk and the fit passes. Chris and Sonny Szejbach are made of sterner stuff. They’ve been rearranging the furniture at […]
I’ve told you quite a lot lately about Winter and its gray flannel dress suit. Today a little sunshine splashed in the front windows. In the interest of balanced reporting, I left the housecleaning behind and trotted out into the day. We parked at the DNR access at the north end of Torch Lake and walked […]
Fresh from my humiliation over the State Record Muskie, I am preparing another crow pie. However, this one I’m going to put in the freezer until Norton Bretz gets back from Hong Kong, because he knows more about all this than I do anyway, and I cling to the hope that I’m not altogether wrong, […]
On Tuesday Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I made a little trip to the north end of Torch Lake to report on progress at the boat launch. We got there just in time to watch the heavy equipment horsing the dock back into place. There’s a bit of tidying up left to do, but by […]
Today is so beautiful that we’re all sneaking away from what we’re supposed to be doing to do what we just have to do: look at Torch Lake. I was not the only one down at the Day Park basking in the sunshine, admiring the view, watching the fish. But I am not going to […]
February 5, 2010
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