It’s that time of year, March in northeast Wisconsin, when the annual tradition of ice fishing starts to taper off. As temperatures gradually get warmer, the ice gets thinner and simply melts away for the summer.
So local authorities are issuing their warnings to fishermen. Now, I’ve never been an ice fisherman, but I know people [...]

It seems that whenever I spend time with my buddies in the Our Lady of Lourdes Mens Group, it’s always a good day. Back on Dec 31, one of the guys e-mailed the group, offering up the idea of doing the Polar Plunge to help raise money for Special Olympics Wisconsin. Fast forward to yesterday, [...]

I used to ski quite a bit in my younger days. When I was 20, I kept my skis locked in the rack on the roof of my Buick Skyhawk all winter. It was easier that way, since I used them at least once or twice a week.
But as a married father of three, I [...]

My daughter, Randy, and I built our duct tape camper two months ago. It was a fun little project that we worked on together. We took it camping and had a lot of fun. Of course a duct tape camper gets a bit of attention in any campground, so we enjoyed showing it off to [...]

Had some fun today putting up the Christmas lights with my daughter Randy. Last year, we came up with a new way of hanging the Christmas lights on our house, a way that makes it quite easy to hang them every year. So this year was a snap.
Rather than explain the details here, I’ll just [...]

Just got done packing the Explorer in preparation for the annual hunting trip. My family has been hunting whitetail deer in Marinette County, Wisconsin for decades. It’s a pretty solid tradition; every year, on the Friday before Thanksgiving, my dad and his brothers converge at the hunting cabin in the woods near Beecher. My brother [...]

I’ve got a lot of oars in the water now-a-days, a lot of activities that I love. So perhaps I’ll just post a few photos from time to time. This one is from my family hunting trip last November. I figured I’d post this one first since I’ve been hunting since I was 10.
My family [...]