Our forest has around 10 acres of bottom land along the Zumbro River. That bottom land also has a creek running through it. Because of two ridges on opposite sides of the creek I have to have two bridges to get to the section along the Zumbro River. In June of 2019 we had a…
Category: Misc/History/Other
Washington’s Crossing
Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press, 2004. This book takes us from Boston in March of 1776 to Princeton in January 1777. I found it detailed, yet interesting. The struggle to form and keep an army fighting against the best army in the world at that time is the overriding theme of…
Tree Hunters Part III
What are the biggest trees in the world? By biggest I mean tree volume not height. The Giant Sequoia in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California have generally been considered the biggest. But have all the giant trees been found? My previous posts on Tree Hunters focused on Europe and Eastern United States tree hunters. …
In Memory
Around 2002 or 2003 when our family was busy with three kids in all kinds of activities my youngest daughter Leisa started begging for a dog. Finally I gave in and said we would get a dog to replace her two older sisters when they headed off for college. As that time got close Leisa…
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