The cold weather seems to be hanging around a little longer than I like. Last week I promised a list of outdoor garden chores, but to be honest, I have no desire to be outdoors doing anything when the temperature stays below zero and the wind chill is minus twenty and colder. I had to travel to Otter Tail Lake earlier this week to meet with a contractor who is bidding some remodel work on my mother’s home. I love being in northern Minnesota in the winter; everything is very p

I’m not much for making New Year’s resolutions. I like to set goals and one of my goals for 2018 is to indulge my love of communication. I have chosen to blog about the ups and downs of a life led outdoors in our northern climate. Every year at the end of January we start to get a little stir crazy. I’m not sure if is totally the weather (my wife would say it absolutely is the weather and lack of sunlight), but days of bitter cold temps and wind chills certainly don’t inspire