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Good morning from Collegeville,

 Another cold snap is on the way.  This may be the first January in a long time without a January thaw.  It only makes the anticipation of spring that much stronger.  I really should get some seed catalogs.  I suppose I could just “Google” seed catalogs and go from there. 

 Many of my son’s friends work construction during the summer.  They work hard and they play even harder.  When winter rolls around some of them get laid off.  Although this can make for lean times budget wise, they are blessed with free time.  This free time allows them to pursue the simple pleasures in live, like ice fishing.

 One of Erik’s friends has taken the sport of ice fishing to a new level. He won $15,000 in the lottery.  After taxes he cleared just under $10,000 so he spent all of it on his fish house.  It’s is a state of the art home away from home.  A hydraulic system allows him to raise and lower it at will.  It even has a satellite TV.  Now his winters are a little bit easier to bear.

 The show this week is live from the DECC auditorium in Duluth.  Special guests include honky-tonk stars Joe Ely and Joel Guzman along with singer-songwriter Heather Masse.  Enjoy the show.

 

“All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”  Winston S. Churchill