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Ben Lawry visited us this week to teach some master classes—forward stroke, core kayaking skills, etc. Great stuff, and I was lucky enough to take a few hours and sit in on the first half of the forward stroke clinic. … Continue reading →

Kayak camp runs every week all summer, and I love it. Lots of young people running around in PFDs, excited about life and paddling and everything. These young ladies were waiting for the rest of their group to get ready … Continue reading →

….see ya in a week or three. Canoelover

Ian has a week-long church youth group thingy called “Especially for Youth” (a.k.a. EFY) down in Normal, Illinois. Three hours a few minutes of Interstate 39 going down. I dropped off the boy, he was already chatting with a really … Continue reading →

Ian was helping out at the shop Saturday and while clearing some brush, noticed this nest within a shrub of some sort. I had never seen a robin (Turdus migratorius*) have two babies with two eggs in the nest. Either … Continue reading →

If you spend any time driving around country roads in Wisconsin, you will eventually encounter the Midwestern phenomenon I call the GFA Syndrome. We Midwesterners tend to create giant fiberglass animals and place them in public view. The giant muskellunge … Continue reading →

Driving to Douglas County on Highway 13 is really nice. Quiet backroads, 55 gas-saving miles per hour, interesting towns—a nice pace for a vacation. But if you have to eat something besides Subway or McDonalds, your odds diminish rapidly after … Continue reading →

You’ll have to excuse the plethora of odonatia this season, but it is the high season for odonates and I’m making hay while the sun shines. Again, I walked behind the shop and again, lots of fun stuff. Still lots … Continue reading →

I took a little 20 minute break from the computer today to get outside for some fresh air. There is a lot of odonate activity these days, lots of pairing off and territorial zooming around. Lots of Calico Pennants (Celithemis … Continue reading →

The name of this blog is canoelover’s blog. It stands to reason that an actual canoe shows up here from time to time. So I got a new boat. Today I took a short paddle behind the shop and my … Continue reading →