For the most part, I’m very comfortable outdoors. Having worked with snakes in the past, I have a healthy respect for them. I understand enough about wolf and coyote biology not to fear these predators–that is if you’re likely to see one, much less get close to one. Bears, on the other hand, I fear. [...]

It was another beautiful day on the lake today. Can you believe it’s November and the weather is still in the 50s? I swear this is true, but we saw our neighbors out on the deck last night, hanging out with some friends around one of those outdoor fire pits. Mind you, it was in [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Victor® Rodent Control. All opinions are 100% mine. This time of year is always a bit tough. Earlier it was a determined woodpecker trying to bore a hole in my house. Then there was the chickadee, set on using our insulation as nesting material. [...]

Today is Take a Hike Day. What better way to celebrate and do just that. Hiking allows you to forget everyday troubles and let Nature and the wind and the sun provide answers and relief. Hiking is one of the most pleasurable activities I know. It’s an opportunity to re-connect with Nature. I take the [...]

As I related last week, we had quite an adventure last month in the Wisconsin mountains. Since I knew it would be useful, I tracked our hiking adventures. The diagram on the left illustrates the elevation changes that we encountered. The oxygen gets a little thin once you cross the 1,100 feet mark. I took [...]

Our typical geocaching trip is fairly mundane, i.e., we may walk a lot, but we’re usually not mountain climbing. That is until last month. We decided to steam ahead and climb the mountains of west central Wisconsin when we visited Bjornson Education-Recreation Center. Bjornson offered a unique opportunity to get a good number of caches [...]

Today, we did some geocaching at a local trail. Generally, this trail is really clean and litter free. Today, we saw a lot of trash. So, we took the opportunity to clean up and at the same time, log a CITO cache. We’ve come a long way since seeing a Native American crying as a [...]