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Good morning from Collegeville,

It is a beautiful sunny day on campus. I visited my sons website early this morning, theoutdoorreport.com , and I clicked on the video “MN Rainbow Trout”. I laughed out loud. Walleye Willie and his sister Anna are fishing for trout on a secret lake in northern Minnesota. Willie is six years old and he loves fishing. Last night I had a dream about the warehouse manager at General Office Products, Earl Benson. Earl was the one that instructed me on the art of fishing for bass with frogs. Willie’s father Erik was younger than Willie when his Uncle Duaine gave him a two foot fishing rod so he could fish out of our sail boat on Cedar Lake west of Upsala. You were supposed to count to 10 after the line started moving off of the reel. No one ever counted faster than Erik did. In a while he learned that he needed to slow it down. We should all “slow it down”.
“Remember, it’s not about having time, it’s about making time”

The APHC show this week is live from Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, where you will find some of the most wonderfully elaborate picnic spreads east of the Mississippi. Singer John Fullbright heads north from Oklahoma with his finely crafted songs of simple pleasures and resilience in the face of hard times. Guitarist Elvin Bishop returns to deliver a Windy City tempest of electric blues along with picker Bob Welsh. Plus, violinist Rachel Barton Pine joins the gang to represent Ravinia’s distinguished classical side. The usual gang of actors and musicians will fill the bill. Garrison will throw in an update on the News From Lake Wobegon. Enjoy the show. Enjoy the weather.

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” Mahatma Gandhi