May 9, 2014
Good rainy morning from Collegeville,
Yesterday was the first day that the earth worms were out on the parking lot and the sidewalks on campus. The smell of earth worms brings memories of fishing. The annual Osberg fishing trip is 4 weeks from tomorrow and the Minnesota fishing opener is tomorrow. I have never been an opener participant. My interest in fishing is only because of my son Erik. When we purchased a lake place 40 years ago I bought a fishing license for the first time in my life. Erik was not even two years old the first summer, but his Uncle Duaine made a special short fishing rod for him and soon we were casting for bass from our sail boat.
Earl Benson, the warehouse manager at General Office Products was the one that taught me how to fish for bass. Erik hated the process of putting a live frog on a number 2 hook with a slip sinker, but it did produce fish. Today it is almost impossible to find frogs anywhere . Minnows, leeches and night crawlers seem to work best for walleye. If you do choose to go out tomorrow, be careful. Wear a life jacket.
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The APHC show this week is live from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Special guests include Brad Paisley, country music outsider Sturgill Simpson, mandolin maestro Sam Bush and fiddle player Stuart Duncan. A visit from Brian Dan Christensen plus the Royal Academy of Radio Actors and the latest News From Lake Wobegon complete the lineup. Enjoy the show.
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating: there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of weather and bad clothes.” John Ruskin
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