I’ll bet you I can outfish you in your best fishing hole or from the backseat of your boat. Biggest fish or most fish, it doesn’t matter, take your pick. We can even fish the same lure or bait if you’re feeling especially lucky. You might think that I’m competitive, and that’s kind of true,…
Spring is officially here, according to the calendar. While the weather in Southwest Ohio will do what it does, meaning whatever it wants, the changes outside are going to progress rapidly. In just a blink of an eye, trees will be filled with leaves and freezing temperatures behind us. Now is the time to take…
Image credit: https://ohiodnr.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/f9f984f9-0e28-4586-9c15-b841fd03de19/northernspringpeeper1-HERO.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_JQGCH4S04P41206HNUKVF31000-f9f984f9-0e28-4586-9c15-b841fd03de19-pIvo2PS I’ve heard, or more accurately, read, that you can hear a lion’s roar from 5 miles away. That’s pretty impressive. At 114 decibels, it’s in line with heavy machinery or a rock concert. At or close to 500 pounds for males, there is some mass behind the sound. At the other end of…
Spring can be the most frustrating season outdoors. Aside from really testing the theory of “no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes,” it has a way of putting what we want out of sync with what we have. The temperature might be perfect, but there’s rain. If there’s no rain, it’s cold and…
“Honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill,” sang Randy Travis in the hit song, “Deeper than the Holler.” Turns out the robin isn’t an automatic harbinger of spring. However, that little bugger singing on your windowsill at 6 in the morning isn’t a liar either. Some of the earliest migrators to return back to…
Years ago, (let’s say late 1990’s) I was taking an early spring morning walk on the edge of a fenceline with my German Shorthaired Pointer, Eva. When a coyote popped out in front of us, maybe 60 yards from me and 30 yards from Eva, I wasn’t sure what to expect: Eva had never took…
According to Buddy the Elf, the fourth and most natural (least processed) of the elves’ food groups is syrup. Judging by the movie scenes, it’s maple syrup — that’s what people mean when they say syrup. It doesn’t need additional description unless it’s not maple. And while some states to the north of Ohio have…
A blanket of snow. Today, most people hear the phrase and think of it only as a visual metaphor, if they think of it at all. Snow covers everything; it looks like a blanket, end of story. What’s really happening is much more than a visually blanketing; it’s a literal blanket. And it’s not just…
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Another waterfowl hunting season come and gone in Southwest Ohio (well maybe one more week for geese) and I didn’t hunt waterfowl. I joke about embracing cold or wet, but never the two simultaneously. Cold and wet is what waterfowl hunting has always looked like to me, never mind the really early mornings. But I…